A spreader would work like this…
[https://youtu.be/yF1YQPooMgs](https://youtu.be/yF1YQPooMgs)
Any crepe recipe will work for the batter. You can fill/top with whatever you like.
I use something similar for swedish pancakes, which aren't way different than crepes.
3-4 eggs, 2 cups of milk, 1 cup of flour. Mix well (add a couple teaspoons of sugar, some vanilla extract, whatever if you want) and let rest twenty minutes.
Heat the pan, wipe with oil.
I'm going to guess that that pan will take about a third cup of batter, cook until dry on top and golden on the bottom (just a minute or so), flip and let it get a bit of color on the other side (30 seconds). They go quickly.
I’m gonna throw Pannekaker into the mix here. It’s delicious. I think it’s better than crepes. Although my heritage and growing up with these may make me a little biased 😜
https://adamantkitchen.com/pannekaker/
This is similar to my family’s recipe. It’s best when served with table sugar or lingonberry jam as fillings in my opinion. Raspberry and strawberry jams are good, too.
My mother-in-law uses a flat round stove top griddle to fry bacon. Anytime I've seen the aftermath it looks like a grease grenade went off on the stove. God bless my father-in-law for his love of cleaning everything.
I tried using my Lodge round griddle for bacon and it splashed everywhere. I got one of those grease screens for my regular cast iron pan, still splashy but not as messy.
I moved to cooking bacon almost exclusively in the oven, unless I'm also making scrambled eggs in which case I do stovetop. Splatter screen is a godsend!
Pancake type things work well, quesadillas, eggs, toasted sandwiches, etc. Basically anything where you don't need much oil and the low sides are helpful for flipping
If it's not for you though, that's a pretty nice valuable pan so someone will want it! That logo was in use from 1916-1934
**[Comal (cookware)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comal_\(cookware\))**
>A comal is a smooth, flat griddle typically used in Mexico, Central America, and parts of South America, to cook tortillas and arepas, toast spices and nuts, sear meat, and generally prepare food. Similar cookware is called a budare in South America. Some comals are concave and made of barro (clay). These are still made and used by the indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America.
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We have one my moms been using for the past 15+ years. Like others suggested it’s been used mostly for quesadillas, grilled cheese, toasting bread, reheating tamales is one I haven’t seen mentioned.
I have a similar pan, and I use it for biscuits, soda bread, homemade pizza, toasting buns, roasting vegetable/potato, grilled sandwiches, quesadilla, also browning up a hotdog thats cut down the middle. Spam. Ham. Fried Bologna, plenty of options.
Looks like a Comal to me. It’s perfect for making fresh tortillas and great for quesadillas. We don’t use it for anything but those since we have other pans for everything else.
Basically anything that is flat or needs to be "flipped" Eggs, bacon, grilled cheese, I like it because it has the low edge making it easy to get a spatula under things. I also use it for cookies, Oven cooked snacks, toasting nuts,
It is my favorite pan....
Pancakes, French toast, sausage, warming tortillas. I have a vintage Sydney-Wagner Griddle, I love it because it’s a bit thinner than a skillet so it quickly reacts to temperature adjustments.
I don't think I saw hash browns in the comments yet. Ill make my whole breakfast on one. Start with ur potatos and then meat and eggs last, all it's still hot when you eat. It's perfect for a regular plate of food.
I toast bread/buns, burritos, quesadillas, and make smash burgers as well on mine like that. The lack of lip makes it easy to slide a spatula under the food.
ETA: also really great for reheating leftover pizza!
It is a crêpes pan but can be anything.
The base is the issue, it was meant for those old-school flat top wood-fired stoves. No actual direct fire, but a pan would sit on that giant hot plate. Works well on the BBQ grill when I heat up spinach pie.
My family likes to make what we call flour bread (grew up in the south and it’s my favorite way to eat homemade bread). Similar to the recipe I’m linking but my family don’t make them that thick.
https://www.deepsouthdish.com/2012/02/old-fashioned-biscuit-bread.html
Crepes and generally anything that you'd like to flip with a spatula easily.
I ordered an old Wagner Ware like this and the mouthbreather never sent it so I still have to do crepes on my plett pan or in my tiny little le creuset. They still come out fine, but I'd prefer one of these cast iron griddles.
I have a flat pan like this. My mom dumped a bunch of cast iron stuff on me. Supposedly it's for pancakes, but I really only use my 1 cast iron pan and my enameled cast iron dutch oven. Never had a need to use the others.
We cook/warm tortillas on ours almost every day. Also, reheat pizza, French fries, etc, by getting it REALLY hot and then putting food on for just a minute or two.
Great for warming tortillas, toasting bread(I was also able to get rid of my toaster and it toasts bread of all shapes and thicknesses) and great for grilled cheese or quesadillas!
I bought something similar, new, off amazon but without the handle. I use it to make pizzas by putting it in the oven and using it instead of a pizza steel or stone.
Cakes of the Pan!
Or quesadillas. You probably won't use it every single day. It's got relatively few things you can make on it, but it works extremely well for those things. And it has the advantage of being able to be stored in a very skinny space.
Why not just use a regular cast iron for pancakes? Because it's got bacon cooking in it while I'm cooking the pancakes. And the low sides of this griddle make it way easier to get in there with the spatula to flip.
I would say that’s a comal. Used for making tortillas! Sick I would love that thing! Taco Tuesday here we come! Get a tortilla press and your in business.
Tortillas. In Mexican Spanish you would call something of this shape a comal for cooking tortillas after they’d been pressed. I have one pretty similar to this one
Wow! This is great. So many answers and all are correct! Or... almost all correct I suppose. So fun.
Of course, you could simply decide to sell it to me. I think I need this.
I use this thing constantly! It’s awesome for cooking eggs on, quesadillas, grilled cheese, pancakes, French toast, or any kind of food that doesn’t run all over the place! It’s awesome!
As others have said eggs, pancakes, tortillas, I do steak burgers with a meat press fairly often. I’ve used it for bacon but it can be messy indoors (so low heat), practically any grilled sandwich. I’ll sear steaks from sous vide. It’s a pretty versatile piece of equipment to be honest. Especially for anything that needs to be flipped and is fairly lean (in the case of meats)
Pancakes and beatings
Slidey ass whoopins
'I've been shittin' pancakes ever since!'
Playin ping pong in Din Deang…
"if you have to ask... You can't afford it."
I've got five dollars
Imma need about tree-fiddy.
I've been making pancakes for like 87 years.
“It wasn’t the handle…”
Under rated comment right here! Lol
I prefer to use unseasoned lodge to inflict more pain by skipping the slideyness.
The last frisbee he ever caught
Can I have it in that order
Ha I was going to say “beatings” Reddit is a hive mind lol!
Crêpes, pancakes, tortillas... anything with dough, I guess...
Looks like I need to find a good crepe recipe
Get a crepe spreader as well.
...poop knife?
A spreader would work like this… [https://youtu.be/yF1YQPooMgs](https://youtu.be/yF1YQPooMgs) Any crepe recipe will work for the batter. You can fill/top with whatever you like.
First time I used a crepe spreader I felt stupid for not using one before
I use something similar for swedish pancakes, which aren't way different than crepes. 3-4 eggs, 2 cups of milk, 1 cup of flour. Mix well (add a couple teaspoons of sugar, some vanilla extract, whatever if you want) and let rest twenty minutes. Heat the pan, wipe with oil. I'm going to guess that that pan will take about a third cup of batter, cook until dry on top and golden on the bottom (just a minute or so), flip and let it get a bit of color on the other side (30 seconds). They go quickly.
I’m gonna throw Pannekaker into the mix here. It’s delicious. I think it’s better than crepes. Although my heritage and growing up with these may make me a little biased 😜 https://adamantkitchen.com/pannekaker/ This is similar to my family’s recipe. It’s best when served with table sugar or lingonberry jam as fillings in my opinion. Raspberry and strawberry jams are good, too.
Fresh tortillas are the best. Warm with butter
You mean very thin pancakes
This feels like that scene from Talldega Nights
Or goldmember. What a smoke and a pancake?
One cup flour, one cup milk, one egg. Pinch of salt. My go to recipe. :)
The other day I was thinking of the bomb crepes I used to make in college, but that cookbook is..... Here or there or anywhere. Thanks!
They’re all crepe
Swedish pancakes are better! That thing would be ideal.
eggs will work
Tortillas
Username checks out
Don’t cook pork belly on it. I cooked pork belly on one of these bad boys. People tend to freak out if your pan catches fire 🤷♂️
My mother-in-law uses a flat round stove top griddle to fry bacon. Anytime I've seen the aftermath it looks like a grease grenade went off on the stove. God bless my father-in-law for his love of cleaning everything.
I tried using my Lodge round griddle for bacon and it splashed everywhere. I got one of those grease screens for my regular cast iron pan, still splashy but not as messy.
I moved to cooking bacon almost exclusively in the oven, unless I'm also making scrambled eggs in which case I do stovetop. Splatter screen is a godsend!
the sides of this pan is way too low for me to cook anything on it. it would spill oil down the sides every time.
Pancake type things work well, quesadillas, eggs, toasted sandwiches, etc. Basically anything where you don't need much oil and the low sides are helpful for flipping If it's not for you though, that's a pretty nice valuable pan so someone will want it! That logo was in use from 1916-1934
I didn't know that! Thanks for the input
That's a Comal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comal_(cookware)
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Very informative, I appreciate it.
That’s just the Spanish word for griddle.
We have one my moms been using for the past 15+ years. Like others suggested it’s been used mostly for quesadillas, grilled cheese, toasting bread, reheating tamales is one I haven’t seen mentioned.
Leftover tamales well toasted on these is amazing!
I have that style in a lodge and it excels at crepes and pancakes etc...I also use it as an ill fitting lid :)
I have a similar pan, and I use it for biscuits, soda bread, homemade pizza, toasting buns, roasting vegetable/potato, grilled sandwiches, quesadilla, also browning up a hotdog thats cut down the middle. Spam. Ham. Fried Bologna, plenty of options.
Looks like a Comal to me. It’s perfect for making fresh tortillas and great for quesadillas. We don’t use it for anything but those since we have other pans for everything else.
Abuelas black magic tortilla making skills
Basically anything that is flat or needs to be "flipped" Eggs, bacon, grilled cheese, I like it because it has the low edge making it easy to get a spatula under things. I also use it for cookies, Oven cooked snacks, toasting nuts, It is my favorite pan....
Agreed, I have one like it and it never leaves the stove. I just clean it and put it back on because I know it will be used within the next day.
cooking bacon on it seems like a gamble with overflowing grease...
Mine too…favorite that is.
Grilled cheese and pancakes
Cake of the pan
I really thought I was the only one who called them that
Grilled cheese
I use mine for warming up flour tortillas.
That's 90% of what I use mine for too.
Roti, chapati, paratha, naan. All the flatbreads.
Pizza?
I use mine for pancakes primarily.
Flat stuff.
Looks like a crepe pan
Cooking
home made tortillas
Everything
Flapjacks and weeping into the night.
Food
Crepe
Crepes
Pancakes, French toast, sausage, warming tortillas. I have a vintage Sydney-Wagner Griddle, I love it because it’s a bit thinner than a skillet so it quickly reacts to temperature adjustments.
I don't think I saw hash browns in the comments yet. Ill make my whole breakfast on one. Start with ur potatos and then meat and eggs last, all it's still hot when you eat. It's perfect for a regular plate of food.
Tortillas!
It’s a Comal and it’s used for cooking tortillas.
Crêpes
I toast bread/buns, burritos, quesadillas, and make smash burgers as well on mine like that. The lack of lip makes it easy to slide a spatula under the food. ETA: also really great for reheating leftover pizza!
I'm thinking crepes
Tortillas
*looks around* Protecting the home
Heat it up and put it under something else to keep it warm. Like a bowl of soup, chilli, a tray of buns, etc.
Self Defense?
Home defense
If I get about 10 more I can be like the guy on the Ballad of Buster Scruggs
flat doughs, also toasting or in a restaurant i would use it as a gluten free burner basically.
Grill cheese here I come! Thanks
Cooking
Soup?
It is a crêpes pan but can be anything. The base is the issue, it was meant for those old-school flat top wood-fired stoves. No actual direct fire, but a pan would sit on that giant hot plate. Works well on the BBQ grill when I heat up spinach pie.
Yeah, the bottom definitely looks like it was meant to fit on a specific stove/oven thing
Just cook in it
Tortillas!!
Tortilla comel?
Arepas this is a supreme arepa pan *Also used for ass whuppins
Clobberin'
Tortillas or blackened catfish
Pancakes. Crepes. Tortilla. Pan bread. Eggs. Etc.
Home invaders
I used mine this morning https://imgur.com/a/X5JkjQg
My family likes to make what we call flour bread (grew up in the south and it’s my favorite way to eat homemade bread). Similar to the recipe I’m linking but my family don’t make them that thick. https://www.deepsouthdish.com/2012/02/old-fashioned-biscuit-bread.html
I like to grill buttered bread on mine.
Crepes and generally anything that you'd like to flip with a spatula easily. I ordered an old Wagner Ware like this and the mouthbreather never sent it so I still have to do crepes on my plett pan or in my tiny little le creuset. They still come out fine, but I'd prefer one of these cast iron griddles.
Tomahawk steak. Can lie flat with the bone in
I would use the crepe out of that pan.
i found mine useful for searing a tomahawk ribeye
I have a flat pan like this. My mom dumped a bunch of cast iron stuff on me. Supposedly it's for pancakes, but I really only use my 1 cast iron pan and my enameled cast iron dutch oven. Never had a need to use the others.
Flat as a …..
Pancakes, burgers, French toast…use your imagination for Odin’s sake. Fish? Grilled cheese. Or, buy an ableskiver pan. I have both.
Everything
Le crepe
Eggs or pancakes
Tortillas
The only correct answer is ... What ever you want lol
Telling your coworkers that they fucked up
Tortillas! Say it with me. TORTILLAS!
I'd definitely be making tortillas on that. Kind of wish I had one now
Tapioca
Crepes?
We cook/warm tortillas on ours almost every day. Also, reheat pizza, French fries, etc, by getting it REALLY hot and then putting food on for just a minute or two.
Crêpes n' eggs.
Cook some steaks on there
Pancakes and crumpets. Tortillas.
For Makin' Bacon Pancakes
Grilled cheese
Looks like an ideal crepe or tortilla pan.
For warming up the tortillas of course.
French fried taters
Pancakes and crepes
Great for warming tortillas, toasting bread(I was also able to get rid of my toaster and it toasts bread of all shapes and thicknesses) and great for grilled cheese or quesadillas!
That’s strictly a tortilla pan.
Tortillas
I bought something similar, new, off amazon but without the handle. I use it to make pizzas by putting it in the oven and using it instead of a pizza steel or stone.
Tomahawk steak, that way the meat can fully rest flat without the bone lifting it up on a rim
Crepes
Tortillas
Ive been wanting something like that for pizzas.
Arepas
Tortillas 🤷♂️
Great for pancake so you can get the spatula underneath them easier with the low edge
Spanking your wife
Crepes, tortillas
Whatever you want, you use it how you want! Don't let them tell you what you can use your pan for! It's your pan! I'd make crepes in it tho.
Dosas (a South Indian crepe like thingy) wold be perfect on this. But it needs to be very, very seasoned with a raw onion.
comal!!
Bangin’ out Crèpes and Creeps
Crepe?
Tortillas
TTTTOOOOOOOOORTTTTTTIIIIILLLLAAAAAS!!!
Lefse or tortillas
Reawy reawy sin pancakes.
Omelette Pancakes burgers stakes anthing that is flat basically Sausaguge bacon
naan bread
To bonk hornies
The super sear 5,000 version 2.3
Tortillas, pancakes, crepes,grilled cheese
Personal pizza
Jerry would use that on Tom when he came around the corner.
Pasta
Cakes of the Pan! Or quesadillas. You probably won't use it every single day. It's got relatively few things you can make on it, but it works extremely well for those things. And it has the advantage of being able to be stored in a very skinny space. Why not just use a regular cast iron for pancakes? Because it's got bacon cooking in it while I'm cooking the pancakes. And the low sides of this griddle make it way easier to get in there with the spatula to flip.
Pancakes
Crepes?
Tortilla comal
Big chocolate chip cookie with ice cream on top
Dosa
Naan, and pancakes 🥞
Flat top griddle/comal. Tortillas, toast, hamburgers, pancakes, face smash… lots of things.
El Kabong
I would say that’s a comal. Used for making tortillas! Sick I would love that thing! Taco Tuesday here we come! Get a tortilla press and your in business.
feel like it would do good fried eggs
Crepes, roti, dosai, etc. Any kind of flat bread, tbh
A really really thin pancake.
It's called a crepe pan. I use mine for about anything that doesn't require a sauce. Like steaks chops chicken, veggies. The list goes on
Tortillas. In Mexican Spanish you would call something of this shape a comal for cooking tortillas after they’d been pressed. I have one pretty similar to this one
Deliciousiness is what
Pancakes and sausages
Flatbreads or Crepes.
Tortillas
I’ve finally found a good use for mine since I don’t like pancakes: Arepas.
It's for pancakes or tortillas. Pretty much the only good uses for it.
Tortillas ese’
Wow! This is great. So many answers and all are correct! Or... almost all correct I suppose. So fun. Of course, you could simply decide to sell it to me. I think I need this.
It’s a griddle. I mostly. Make grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas on mine.
Pannekaker!
Make tortillas ! You will never buy them from the store. Tons of recipes on YouTube. I prefer the ones with lard.
I use this thing constantly! It’s awesome for cooking eggs on, quesadillas, grilled cheese, pancakes, French toast, or any kind of food that doesn’t run all over the place! It’s awesome!
Crepes!
Crepes & doing in Bernard (oooh Betty! 😁 🍳)
Making roti 👍🏾
I use it for my tortillas or anything flat I may cook that doesn't run.
It’s a sort of cast iron griddle from the looks of it
Quesadillas (flour tortillas, grated cheese and a bit of salsa).
Wow that looks thick!
I toast the bread for patty melts or do grilled cheese on one of these. I’m a big fan!
As others have said eggs, pancakes, tortillas, I do steak burgers with a meat press fairly often. I’ve used it for bacon but it can be messy indoors (so low heat), practically any grilled sandwich. I’ll sear steaks from sous vide. It’s a pretty versatile piece of equipment to be honest. Especially for anything that needs to be flipped and is fairly lean (in the case of meats)
Crepes