# Goddamn you 3am pancake cooker!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 14, 2012, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-you-3am-pancake-cooker/634669 "2012-09-14T07:03:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-you-3am-pancake-cooker/634669/1 "2012-09-14T07:03:46Z")

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So I am sitting here awake in the middle of the night and slightly hungry and wishing I could sleep, I could pull something out of the freezer but it would be annoying to thaw and heat it.

When the smell of pancakes cooking comes in the window from somewhere.

:mad:

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-you-3am-pancake-cooker/634669/2 "2012-09-14T11:19:02Z")

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And what is stopping you from making your own pancakes?:dubious:  
😛

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**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-you-3am-pancake-cooker/634669/3 "2012-09-14T12:40:00Z")

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you should have tracked the origin and knocked on the door carrying a plate, utensils and jar of syrup.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-you-3am-pancake-cooker/634669/4 "2012-09-14T12:54:30Z")

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For future reference, pancakes freeze exceedingly well. When we cook pancakes, we cook a lot of pancakes, then freeze what we don’t eat on cookie sheets (so they don’t stick in a clump) and then transfer the frozen pancakes into gallon ziploc freezer bags.

Takes a stack of 3 about 60 seconds in the microwave from frozen.

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**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-you-3am-pancake-cooker/634669/5 "2012-09-14T12:56:56Z")

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I was trying to convince myself to forget eating and just go back to sleep, bit like being on a diet and someone starts cooking a pizza.

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**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-you-3am-pancake-cooker/634669/6 "2012-09-14T12:57:57Z")

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They also defrost extremely well in the toaster. You don’t leave them in long enough to get crisp.

I like my pancakes toasted the same way I toast bread - warm but not crispy. Drives my “toast it until it’s black” husband insane.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-you-3am-pancake-cooker/634669/7 "2012-09-14T13:03:11Z")

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> [@grude](#):
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> I was trying to convince myself to forget eating and just go back to sleep, bit like being on a diet and someone starts cooking a pizza.

Dastardly! 😃 I know what you mean…I have a 19 year old who can eat anything and still stay slim. The smell of pizza - or hamburgers - or mac and cheese - or sometimes, all three at once! While I’m picking at yet another salad - grr.

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**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-you-3am-pancake-cooker/634669/8 "2012-09-14T14:46:11Z")

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Last night just as I was heading to bed, one of the neighbours was baking an angel-food cake and the delicious smell kept me up. Who makes angel-food cake at 11 at night?? Somebody mean, that’s who.