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Question: can you make crepes or pancakes on it or will they stick?
Document: You can make four decent sized pancakes and they cook evenly and after a light greasing with shortening, they do not stick. The heavy cast iron insures even baking.
We love this griddle...we use oil to make pancakes and french toast, so can't comment on the non-stick. It is extremely durable. We find it heats evenly, *but* we have a powerful gas stovetop. I shopped around and this price is great!
It would have gotten five stars, but as expected, it will take a while to make it non-stick like my other black pots. It may be better to scrub off the factory spray on coat and build your own in the oven. We use it all the time to grill steak and chicken, and have used the flat side for pancakes and sausage many times as well.
This is an excellent, well made griddle. There are two things that could be better (for me anyways); I wish that it were slightly wider and not quite so heavy. I do not use non-stick cookware so we purchased this item in order to have a somewhat non-stick surface to make pancakes and other things on. So far it has fit my needs and my complaints are really only personal preference.
This griddle/grill does a great job both grilling on one side and toasting or making pancakes or whatever on the other. Make sure to use some non stick spray on the grill before using, clean-up on that side can be a pain if you don't. It does get quite smokey in the kitchen, unfortunatly I do not have a hood with fan over my stove so the windows need to be open, but it's still worth the coughing 'cause the meat comes out soooo good.
Not only great for breakfast meats, pancakes and home fries. We make steaks, chops, chicken cutlets....just about anything. I grill up veggies for pizza on this thing. We made a skirt steak last week and it was as good as one cooked on the Weber. after eating non-stick surface for years, I'll never ever go back to non-stick. It's useless and doesn't last. This griddle will last forever. It's a quick learning process as to how to maintain your cast iron.
This griddle is nice and it really spreads the heat well. As you know, stoves have two burners on each side so other griddles concentrate the heat right over the burner itself. This cast iron griddle spreads the heat throughout the griddle allowing for easy cooking in the middle of the griddle that's not over a direct flame. Makes pancakes easier as well as faster to make.I would suggest not scrambling eggs on it straight out of the box. Give it some time to build that non stick surface. It's cheaper at Target ($39).
I wanted a long fry pan to make bacon or pancakes. I was really excited to get this pan, but a little disappointed with it. I cooked chicken and bacon on it and they both stuck really bad. I haven't cooked pancakes on it yet. Perhaps it was because it hadn't been seasoned yet? Or perhaps I assumed it was like a non-stick? Anyway, its really heavy, but definitely durable, but not quite what I was expecting. I do love a good Lodge, though. I've only cooked on it 3 times so hopefully it will get better with time.
I LOVE this item!It arrived Thursday evening and I just took a look at it. It looked like a piece of very serious, very formidable, almost ominous looking equipment.Last night I made my own recipe Sun Dried Tomato & Pesto panini/focaccia/flatbreads on it and they were soooo easy to make and they turned out perfect. No sticking at all, they cooked really fast and I had 36 of them in much less than an hour because I can actually make four at a time on the griddle side.This morning I decided to make pancakes, which they claim will not stick to the cast iron.
I really like this for jobs that won't fit in a cast-iron "frying" pan, so I don't have to make things in stages. But, like most cast-iron, you're going to need to season it to make it non-stick. I don't care what the description says above - this grill and all other cast-iron needs work to make it get that sheen and nice non-stick finish. I made chapatis first and it worked well, but I could see that this was going to take some uses (maybe 10 or so, with washing afterwards with hot water and steel wool, drying right away, and oiling all over) to be useful for pancakes and other items.
Answer: We make pancakes often and they never stick.  It is a pleasure to make them on the griddle because I can prepare half the batch I need for my family at once (it fits about 6 at a time).  I do recommend turning on your stove and really allowing it to heat up for a few minutes (I just put both burners to medium heat) before putting down your batter ...or the first batch of pancakes won't cook evenly.  Once it is up to temperature it really maintains the even heat well.  I have never tried crepes on the griddle.  I will admit I do wash the griddle sometimes (with Method dish soap) after eggs (which do crust on a bit) and when I put it back on my stove for storage I will spray a bit of Pam on it and then wipe it with a paper towel.