OT-Making pancakes for a Men's Saturday morning Church function-how to pour batter with less mess

DoofusOfTheDay

Our Church is doing another Saturday morning Men's pancake breakfast.  I was in charge of making pancakes on a couple of big electric griddles last time, and while I was able to handle the chore okay, it did get a bit messy pouring batter right from the bowl.  Any ideas on how to do this less messy?  I read where some people use like a plastic water pitcher to pour from, maybe a ladle could be used?  Although I think I might have tried ladle and it dripped a lot also now that I think about it.

travisstrick

Old catsup bottle

Cookinbob

A 1/4 cup measuring cup as a scoop makes perfectly sized pancakes (at least for my griddle), and I am able to keep from dripping.

DoofusOfTheDay

As many as I need to make, don't think the catsup bottle trick will work, saw that tip also.  I like the idea maybe of a measuring scoop.  I could have various sized scoops and experiment with which one did the best job.

BOWHUNR

Travis nailed it!!

Mike

henapple

Don't know how much they cost but most restaurants I work around use a "gun". A hopper type container with a preset amount allowed to come out.

RRP

henapple said:

Don't know how much they cost but most restaurants I work around use a "gun". A hopper type container with a preset amount allowed to come out.

Check Amazon -they have several styles CHEAP!

Chris_Wang

I'm sure another volunteer can fill the spare ketchup bottle up while you use the main one, and then rotate when yours runs out.

henapple

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DoofusOfTheDay

Well really just me by myself working the griddles and think it was about 6 or 8 pancakes per griddle at a time, so would be a bit chaotic with ketchup bottles.  I think I'll take the plunge and get the dispenser henapple posted.  Could use it at home for muffins too.

RRP

DoofusOfTheDay said:

Well really just me by myself working the griddles and think it was about 6 or 8 pancakes per griddle at a time, so would be a bit chaotic with ketchup bottles.  I think I'll take the plunge and get the dispenser henapple posted.  Could use it at home for muffins too.

You're going to need some help flipping and pouring!

By the time you get to pouring the 8th pancake the 1st will be needing to be flipped. Don't forget to wear a sweatband! LOL

DoofusOfTheDay

RRP said:

DoofusOfTheDay said:

Well really just me by myself working the griddles and think it was about 6 or 8 pancakes per griddle at a time, so would be a bit chaotic with ketchup bottles.  I think I'll take the plunge and get the dispenser henapple posted.  Could use it at home for muffins too.

You're going to need some help flipping and pouring!

By the time you get to pouring the 8th pancake the 1st will be needing to be flipped. Don't forget to wear a sweatband! LOL

Trust me, last time I was hustling.  Enjoyed the heck out of it though, even though I've never done cooking for lots of people at once.  Kept making them, foiling them and putting in oven to keep warm, and on and on.  Think there was about 30 guys last time.  

DoofusOfTheDay

Update - ended up getting one of those pancake batter dispensers.  Worked great.  Served about 40 men.  

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/Chicago-Metallic-trade-Batter-Dispenser-in-4-Cup-Capacity/1017470086?Keyword=pancake