Staub Cast Iron Fry Pan Review & Our Perfectly Easy Pancake Recipe

Here at MetroKitchen we started carrying a bunch of Staub enameled cast iron skillets and frying pans recently. Made in France, these high-quality Staub frying pans are made from enameled cast iron and have a lifetime warranty. Since I’ve been using one at home on the weekends with great success, I decided to share my recipe for making pancakes from scratch.

Read on below for the recipe and more info about these great fry pans from Staub! This might not be the greatest pancake recipe in the world, but it’s easy to remember and it gets the job done. The bottom line behind pancakes is that you’re frying bread in a pan with butter and sugar and covering it with syrup and even more butter. So, in my opinion, even a bad pancake is still pretty good.

That being said, I stick with this pancake recipe because when it’s time to get breakfast ready on the weekend it’s easy to whip together in less than an hour. This recipe makes about 8 or 9 large pancakes. One wonderful thing about these Staub fry pans is that they have an enameled cooking surface, so they naturally keep food from sticking. This makes them really easy to clean.

This Staub cast iron cookware is also great at keeping the heat evenly distributed across the pan’s cooking surface as well as getting a nice golden brown color on the pancakes. Since the pancakes have butter in them and the enameled surface doesn’t require seasoning, you don’t need to add butter or oil before you start cooking.

Once the pan is good and hot, you can just put the pancake batter straight on the pan and they’ll cook perfectly. The ideal way to cook pancakes is to only flip them one time. You only want to flip them once the the uncooked side starts to bubble up across the surface - that’s the pancake letting you know that it’s starting to cook through the center and it’s ready to flip.

If you followed all of my tips, you should have a perfect stack of hot, tasty pancakes. I like to use only 100% pure maple syrup for these cakes because anything else, in my opinion, is a crime. However, if you like corn syrup then you can use that too.

I couldn’t believe it. I left it set up for 3 days. It was windy and we had a terrible thunderstorm one night-the tent stayed put and stayed dry. I thought that was pretty awesome. The tent is listed as a 4 person tent, and if you were super friendly and slept side by side you could fit 4 sleeping bags in there. However I think most users would find this most comfortable for 2 folks as I have it set up here-two sleeping bags and then room for some gear in between.

I’ve got a nice tub I bought at Walmart that would be perfect to store some of your food stuffs in for transport and for safekeeping at the campsite. When it was time to take the tent down it was the same easy process, just in reverse. The extra bonus about this tent,

Now that we’ve got someplace to live, let’s talk about the really important stuff. For camping food planning, storage and cooking is very important. To try out my new cast iron griddle I decided to make pancakes. That’s one of those awesome camp breakfasts-somehow eating fresh, hot pancakes out in the open air.

The cast iron griddle worked like a charm on the two burner propane stove in my backyard “simulated” campsite-but it would have worked equally well placed on top of a charcoal grill or securely balanced over a wood fire. When using cast iron it is best to have a thin metal spatula.

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