Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Pancake Mix- FAIL

To my lovely readers:

Please do not make the same mistake I did. I know it may be easy to do, and some of you may have already done it, but for those who haven't: Stay away from Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Pancake Mix.

Egh!

I've had some bad gluten-free products- and this is definitely a contender for one of the worst. On my transition to a more Paleo style of eating, I've been "cleaning" my cupboards- or, eating all the grains that are sitting around in order to rid my pantry of them.


One of these products was an unopened bag of Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Pancake Mix- so I thought, wouldn't it be nice to serve pancakes in bed to my honey! It was my special weekend plan, and I was up early to make them.


Their description of the product is "Produces perfect, very light, and fluffy pancakes everyone will enjoy". Well...

I followed the recipe exactly- 1 1/2 cups mix with one egg, coconut milk as my choice of milk, and avocado oil. I whipped it vigorously, and oiled my pan.

What happened next was pretty mundane- the batter turned into pancakes....they were INCREDIBLY thick if you just poured as you would "normal" pancake mix (completed pancakes about an inch thick), so I started thinning them out by smoothing the tops over as they hit the pan.

They definitely looked like pancakes, so I topped them with banana chunks, and maple syrup...

In I went to the bedroom, and presented breakfast in bed!

Unfortunately, the story doesn't end well.

As soon as I bit into my first pancake, I felt an overwhelming sense to drink every liquid I have in my fridge.
DRY AS DUST.

Egh. They were so dry, so dense, and so...blegh that I couldn't do it. I have a really hard time wasting stuff- including food- so I'm not one to throw out food. I normally just deal, and eat it and never make it again.
Not these.

These were awful. I can't say it enough- SO dry. In fact, a piece of this dusty pancake landed somewhere in the back of my throat and got stuck so I spent the next 20 minutes trying to dislodge it from where it had landed.

I told my boyfriend he didn't have to eat it, and he was thankful. Out of the bedroom came the plates, and into the garbage went the pancakes, and the remainder of the mix.

Sorry, Bob's Red Mill---this one's a failure.