What the flip? We rated Lancaster University students’ pancakes from yuck to yum

Forget Christmas or Valentine’s Day, Shrove Tuesday is obviously the greatest holiday of the year. Our annual tradition of rating your pancakes strikes again and, to be honest, we seem to be getting slightly better than last year… go us!

Nevertheless, there were still some absolute atrocities this year so let’s get into it.

Basic crêpe – 9/10

We’ll start off with some acceptable entries and slowly descend into chaos. This pancake is completely perfect in our opinion. We can see the toppings lined up in the background, seems sufficiently cooked and particularly crêpe-ish.

Mini Berry Pancakes – 8/10

These pancakes are quite individual. Huge fan of the healthy berries (it’s okay to feel guilty about the extortionate amount of pancakes you’ve eaten) and the mini-pancake style is an interesting take on the traditional crêpe.

Very (straw)berry – 7/10

We don’t really know why strawberries are a staple of pancake day, but they are, and they WORK. This student has also gone down the healthy route with their pancakes and given us a delightful fruity topping with, again, an arguably perfect pancake. The strawberries seem a bit big to tackle with each mouthful which deducts some points. 

Thick mound of batter – 4/10

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The main issue with pancakes, in our opinion, is the fact that it’s almost impossible to judge how much mixture you need. This Lancs student seems to have done the usual “I have too much mixture for one pancake but too little for two” and has decided to just chuck it all in the pan, making this pile of dough. We just know that this would be delicious if cooked all the way through, though.

Stages of grief – 3.5/10

We’d like to pose these pancakes as being reflections of improvement. The pancake closest to the camera is (we hope) the first attempt, getting used to how it’s working out. The middle pancake has some hope, though we don’t know what the clumps in the middle are. The furthest pancake seems perfect, it looks like it would turn out very well. Because these aren’t actually cooked yet, we’re struggling to give it a rating so we’ll go for the upper-middle ground (six) and take points off for the fact they’re using a pancake mix. I mean, come on, it’s only flour, eggs, and milk.

Charcoal-ed ‘pancake’ – 3/10

Thank you very much to this student who clarified what we’re looking at here. It looks more like that forbidden potpourri that your grandparents get out at Christmas. Or maybe some charred wood. Or even… sorry, we’ll stop with the insults. We have burnt many pancakes our my time and NEVER have they succumbed to this fate. Entirely inedible, but points for the fact the caption made us laugh.

We have no idea – 0/10

We would initially have argued that this was just after the mixture was poured in the pan and were willing to let the foaminess slide. However, the browned section shows that the pancake has clearly been cooking for some time, which begs the question: what has actually gone on here? We can’t even fathom what ingredients are causing this. Too much milk? Too little flour? We have no idea.

Michelin Star – 10/10

So we’re not leaving you with a sour taste in your mouth, here’s an exemplary savoury pancake creation. If these pancakes are yours, you can own up to being a professional chef. No one, and we mean no one, other than this Lancs student would ever think of crafting pancakes into this delicacy. Not sure how they tackled eating it but it’s really given me food for thought about how we’ll go about making our future pancakes. 10/10