After visiting multiple IHOP locations, I found 16 pancakes to try. For this taste test, I went to two multiple IHOP locations in California. Across both menus, I found 16 different pancakes to try.

For 61 years, the IHOP family restaurant chain has served our world famous pancakes and a wide variety of breakfast, lunch and dinner items that are loved by people of all ages - offering an affordable, everyday dining experience with warm and friendly service.

IHOP Pancake Recipe Ingredients

• All-purpose flour.
• Baking powder.
• Sugar.
• Salt.
• Baking soda.
• Buttermilk.
• Vegetable oil.
• Egg.

Pancakes are one of our most ancient foods. Grinding tools for grains have been discovered and dated back as far 30,000 years ago, and the earliest civilizations to utilize fire and crop cultivation for their food supplies were making some form of pancakes as a primary source of sustenance.

IHOP's four-wall profits over the past few years have served steady, especially measured against other casual brands, including Applebee's, because its food and labor costs are lower. Comparing the first half of 2019 to the same period of 2018, IHOP franchisees actually had higher margins, CFO Thomas Song said.

For over 60 years, the IHOP family restaurant chain has served its world-famous pancakes and a wide variety of breakfast, lunch and dinner items that are loved by people of all ages. IHOP offers its guests an affordable, everyday dining experience with warm and friendly service.

In North America, they are typically considered a breakfast food and serve a similar function to waffles. In Britain and the Commonwealth, they are associated with Shrove Tuesday, commonly known as "Pancake Day", when, historically, perishable ingredients had to be used up before the fasting period of Lent.

A pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack) is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan, often frying with oil or butter. It is a type of batter bread.

A pancake is a thin, flat, circular piece of cooked batter made from milk, flour, and eggs. Pancakes are often rolled up or folded and eaten hot with a sweet or savoury filling inside. In America, pancakes are usually eaten for breakfast, with butter and maple syrup.

Our Mission, Vision & Values IHOP's mission is to spread more joy to more guests, every day. Through research, we found that our guests feel a sense of belonging, togetherness and joy when they dine at IHOP or eat IHOP on the go.

When you put cold batter on a hot griddle, it will bring the griddle temperature down, and it will take a little bit for the griddle to recoup. At IHOP or Denny's, the griddles are very heavy compared to the number of pancakes they put on it, so the temp differential is much less compared to a pan at home.

When you put cold batter on a hot griddle, it will bring the griddle temperature down, and it will take a little bit for the griddle to recoup. At IHOP or Denny's, the griddles are very heavy compared to the number of pancakes they put on it, so the temp differential is much less compared to a pan at home.

Here are some interesting historical and cultural facts about pancakes that you may not have known before:

• The oldest written record we have of pancakes is from ancient Greece.
• Pancakes were Ötzi the Iceman's last meal.
• Pancake Day and Shrove Tuesday fall on the same day.