Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 11, 2021

If you like your pancake burnt on the outside and gooey on the inside …

This pancake is going to flatten them like pancakes.

let’s not talk about how calvin uses either shelled or hard boiled eggs in his recipe, according to the first panel

I keep seeing internet pics of giant unappetizing looking hamburgers. Some of those bites are just going to be a mouthful of bread & a waste of food, all for Internet clout. Just bc you can doesn’t mean you should.

That might work if you use a rice cooker to cook pancakes.

Hobbes! Leggo my Eggo!!

I used to cook like Calvin. Now I just don’t cook.

Kid logic.

The eggs are still whole in panel one. We had egg shells in our scrambled eggs when the kids first learned to cook

Remember John Candy making dozens of pancakes in UNCLE BUCK?

Have you ever watched the food channel and that thing they have with the world’s worst cooks? It turns out that there are a LOT of things in recipes that the writer just assumes the cook will know. And those cooks don’t… and not ever having been interested, they also don’t retain the various steps even after hearing/seeing them.

It was funny for a few weeks.

How to make a mom happy.

That’s a “Chicago-style” pancake.

That’s … not how it works, Calvin!

Hope mom forces Calvin to clean up the mess he’s made.

ALL his problems seem to start at panel 3!!!!

“Kaiserschmarren”!

I call it first….Calvin winds up with a pancake bigger than a manhole cover.;D

My uncle thought this way. :P

Who gets the top, and who gets stuck with the bottom?

Good thinking, Calvin.

I have actually done this. And I remembered “It worked for Calvin…”

The final panel reminds me of the opening chapter of ‘The Glass Castle’.

“Cooking with Calvin” to debut on HGTV next week.

Sunset.com – Big Dutch Baby. Delicious pancake soufflé!!!

So, Calvin, you’re applying “Go Big or Go Home” to your pancake making?

Makes me think of Paul Bunyan. You don’t hear much about ol’ Paul and Babe the Blue Ox any more.

“It, don’t work like that ‘Calvin’ ! ! ! ! !

What, no Blueberries?

I stopped at a diner once and ‘Pancake’ was on the menu. Just one, but it was bigger than the plate. Much bigger.

Sheet pan pancakes

I did the same thing once, trying to make a carrot cake for my wife. It was ages before she could even look at cakes or carrots again.

After he masters pancakes, he’ll move on with spaghetti

I don’t like thick pancakes. slim and light for me.

Calvin knew what 20 divided by 2 was!!!?

It takes a strong wrist to flip a pan-sized pancake.

And the eggshells give it a delightful crunch.

So how would you actually make one big pancake?

But that might take a long time to bake!

A recent “Zits” strip illustrated a well-known fact: “If you give your son a meatloaf, he’ll eat for a day. If you teach your son to make a meatloaf, you’ll be cleaning up the kitchen for a week”. (The first clause is inaccurate, at least as it applies to Jeremy, the son in question. “Eat for an hour” (at the outside) would be more exact.)

Jeremy’s meatloaf mess: https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/zits/s-2566670

If you HAD to eat the WHOLE PANCAKE what would u do? ( I would throw it away. )

There used to be a popular breakfast place where I live that pretty much used Calvin’s recipe. Their pancakes were at least 16" in diameter, and about 2" thick. I was never able to eat the whole thing, though they were really good.

Big brain Calvin

This won’t end well….

Did Calvin actually put a whole EGG in his bowl??

You’re going to need a lot of syrup…