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Q&A How to avoid air bubbles forming when baking a pancake in the oven?

It's probably the thickness. I do bake pancakes in the oven (because 10 or more at a time without flipping is a lot less bother than standing in front of a pan to tend perhaps 3 at once if small) ...

posted 6mo ago by Spamalot‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Spamalot‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar Spamalot‭ · 2024-05-09T01:56:33Z (6 months ago)
  • It's probably the thickness.
  • I do bake pancakes in the oven (because 10 or more at a time without flipping is a lot less bother than standing in front of a pan to tend perhaps 3 at once if small) and I do so by pouring normal pancake size and thickness amounts onto parchment or parchment equivalent (Silpat, _et al_) on baking sheets.
  • They behave pretty much the way they behave in a pan on the top of the stove. No outsize bubbles, in my experience.
  • Notably, without _any_ air bubbles you'd have something not much like a pancake, where small air (or CO<sub>2</sub>) bubbles typically from baking powder or baking soda and acid are what makes the pancake fluffy and risen, rather than resembling a dense slab of unleavened bread.
  • It's probably the thickness.
  • I do bake pancakes in the oven (because 10 or more at a time without flipping is a lot less bother than standing in front of a pan to tend perhaps 3 at once if small) and I do so by pouring normal pancake size and thickness amounts onto parchment or parchment equivalent (Silpat, _et al_) on baking sheets.
  • They behave pretty much the way they behave in a pan on the top of the stove. No outsize bubbles, in my experience.
  • Notably, without _any_ air bubbles you'd have something not much like a pancake, where small air (or CO<sub>2</sub>) bubbles typically from baking powder or baking soda and acid, or beaten egg, are what makes the pancake fluffy and risen, rather than resembling a dense slab of unleavened bread.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Spamalot‭ · 2024-05-09T01:54:42Z (6 months ago)
It's probably the thickness. 

I do bake pancakes in the oven (because 10 or more at a time without flipping is a lot less bother than standing in front of a pan to tend perhaps 3 at once if small) and I do so by pouring normal pancake size and thickness amounts onto parchment or parchment equivalent (Silpat, _et al_) on baking sheets. 

They behave pretty much the way they behave in a pan on the top of the stove. No outsize bubbles, in my experience.

Notably, without _any_ air bubbles you'd have something not much like a pancake, where small air (or CO<sub>2</sub>) bubbles typically from baking powder or baking soda and acid are what makes the pancake fluffy and risen, rather than resembling a dense slab of unleavened bread.