Maslenitsa is one of the most beloved holidays of the Slavic people, inherited from our ancestors, the Gentiles. The main tradition of this holiday is baking pancakes, as symbols of the sun. And in order to please your family with a lot of this treat, the housewives need, in addition to a delicious recipe, a "right" frying pan.
The stores now provide a large selection of pancakes made specifically for frying pancakes, and with this variety it is very difficult to decide which one to buy.
In this article, you will learn the features of the pan for pancakes and which one to choose better.
Why buy a pancake pan?
Very often the question is asked: why buy a separate frying pan for pancakes, if there are ordinary, and pancakes are not baked every day? And in order for the pancakes to not stick, they were well fried, they could be quickly and conveniently turned over. Therefore, the peculiarities of any pancake pan are:
- long handle;
- thick walls;
- flat and thick bottom;
- low sides (1-2 cm).
It is recommended for pancakes to single out one pan and do not fry it anything else, then keep a constant oil layer, and the first pancake then will not be "lumpy".
Types of frying pans for pancakes
First of all, the species are selected depending on the material of manufacture:
- Cast-iron frying pan for pancakes - has long been considered the best, because thanks to uniform heating, a thick bottom and a porous structure, oil layer formed over time, pancakes in such a pan are very tasty. Its disadvantage is a lot of weight and sensitivity to moisture (quickly rusts).
- Aluminum - very light, inexpensive, but short-lived frying pan.
- Titanium - has all the properties of cast iron, the difference is only in a higher price.
- Steel with non-stick (Teflon) coating - in such a frying pan you can fry almost without using oil, but you can turn pancakes only with a wooden or silicone spatula and you can not heat it very much.
- With a ceramic coating - such a pancake pan is considered the most environmentally friendly.
Also pancakes are of different shapes and sizes. In addition to the standard pancake pan with a diameter of 20-25 cm, there are models with emoticons of small size (about 10 cm in diameter). They are more suitable for roasting lush yeast pancakes (oladushki) and are very popular with children.
How to choose a pan for pancakes?
After the appearance of different types of plates for cooking, this is the first thing that the hostess should repulse when choosing dishes, for example, for an induction cooker it is necessary to take a cast iron pancake pan or steel with an anti-stick coating.
Be sure to take into account that when baking pancakes, raise and lower the frying pan will have many times, so the weight of the frying pan and the length of its grips are very important. Cast iron and titanium are considered heavy models, and aluminum and steel are light.
If you plan to fry a small number of pancakes once a year on Shrovetide, then you will need a frying pan made of any metal. Well, if your family is big and very fond of pancakes, then
Frying pans with several depressions (with smiles, bears or just circles) are very convenient in that up to 7 pieces are produced simultaneously. small pancakes of the same size, which is almost impossible to do on a large skillet.
When buying a skillet for pancakes, it is better to choose an expensive model of good quality once per year, than to buy cheap every year.
In addition, there are special electric pancakes for frying.