Stop Using Your Wrists To Flip Pancakes

Whether you made it from scratch or used a store-bought mix, your pancake batter is simmering in your greased pan and now you must face the most daunting part of pancake making: the big flip. Perhaps already breaking a sweat, you carefully extend your spatula outwards, dip it under your still-forming pancake and flip it using your wrist. Defeated, you watch your pancake splatter across the pan and settle for a less-than-perfect breakfast.

You aren't to blame for this pancake blowout. Our society has long advocated that using your wrist to turn over pancakes is the best flapjack flipping method. For example, BBC Good Food states you should flip your pancakes with a vigorous wrist flick as if making stir fry in a wok. And wikiHow even gets more technical with it, reporting that you should flip your pancake by making a quick turn of the wrist at "180 degrees to one side." But despite the world's urging, we all know in our hearts that no matter the strength of the flipping or degree of the turn, the flick-of-the-wrist pancake-flipping trick is flawed. However, luckily, one brave restaurant has finally stated this oft-whispered fact out loud on social media by revealing a superior pancake-flipping technique. It's time to take the brand's advice and stop this wrist-flipping charade. Here's how you should actually flip your pancakes.

According to its TikTok page, The Pancake Parlor is Melbourne, Australia's most beloved flapjack-making chain. And before it brings its customers pancakes covered with hot fudge and jam, it first, of course, has to flip them.

In the TikTok, an employee reveals that associates do not flip the brand's pancakes using their wrists. The person even demonstrated how flipping the pancake the old-fashioned way can cause the batter to splatter. Instead, Pancake Parlor employees use their index fingers and thumb. As the associate demonstrated in the video, you only need to gently lift your pancake with the spatula, then turn the spatula over using the two previously mentioned fingers. That way, your pancakes will make it to the other side without their batter spilling into the rest of the pan.

Many pancake lovers in the comment section expressed their thankfulness to The Pancake Parlor for shedding light on the best method for flipping this breakfast favorite.

According to Martha Stewart, if your batter is thick, you can get your breakfast looking symmetrically round by dividing it out with an ice cream scoop or a greased measuring cup. And if it's thin, you can get the same effect by evenly pouring your mix straight from a measuring cup into the center of your pan.

Once your perfectly divided pancake batter makes it into your skillet, you need to know how to tell when it times to flip it. After all, your flawless flipping technique will go to waste if you turn over your morning meal too early. According to BBC Good Food, your flapjack is generally ready for flipping after one minute has passed. Although, you should check that the batter has started folding inwards before you fully commit to turning it to the other side. After all, signs show the bottom half is cooked, you can then flip your breakfast without your wrist and with great confidence.