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When I make pancakes, I cook a bunch and freeze what I don't eat that day. Works out well. I have to cool them before freezing them. But everything seems to stick to hot pancakes: the Corelle plate I use, wax paper, paper towels, cookie sheet, etc. So I end up with pancakes that have holes in them from where they stuck to the wax paper or whatever. I was thinking of trying parchment paper next. Will that work? Any other ideas? (At least the hole-y pancakes still taste good!)
Oops. I thought I was posting this in the Food and Drink forum! LOL How did I manage to do that? If a moderator wants to move this thread, that's fine with me. Unless someone in the Retirement forum knows the answer to my question!
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When I make pancakes, I cook a bunch and freeze what I don't eat that day. Works out well. I have to cool them before freezing them. But everything seems to stick to hot pancakes: the Corelle plate I use, wax paper, paper towels, cookie sheet, etc. So I end up with pancakes that have holes in them from where they stuck to the wax paper or whatever. I was thinking of trying parchment paper next. Will that work? Any other ideas? (At least the hole-y pancakes still taste good!)
You just answered your own question. It's because they are hot that they stick. Heat creates condensation on the surface of the hot pancakes and condensation creates adhesion which contracts to even tighter adhesion during cooling. As long as you cool them on a rack and allow the surface condensation to evaporate during the cooling they will not stick to other surfaces after they are completely cooled.
I put them on a baking sheet in the oven set to warm as I'm cooking them.
After dinner, whatever is left is allowed to cool down on the same sheet. After that I stick them in zip-lock bags and they keep very well in the refrigerator or freezer.
I make a bunch of pancakes all the time. I cool them and toss them in a baggy without anything in between. They come apart fine.
What do you cool them on? I have no problem storing them, once I can get them on a cookie sheet and into the freezer. Once frozen, I put them in baggies and they never stick to each other.
You just answered your own question. It's because they are hot that they stick. Heat creates condensation on the surface of the hot pancakes and condensation creates adhesion which contracts to even tighter adhesion during cooling. As long as you cool them on a rack and allow the surface condensation to evaporate during the cooling they will not stick to other surfaces after they are completely cooled.
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I will try the wire rack the next time. I'm a little skeptical, but it couldn't be worse than the big holes I've been getting in my pancakes (which I love for breakfast!).
Thanks (and rep points) to all who answered.
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