At his Kidz Kitchen demonstration at the NYC Wine and Food Festival [1], Alton Brown [2] not only answered audience members questions [3], but he taught the eager crowd how to make a kid-friendly dish, a pancake cake with a slime-like avocado frosting [4]. Here are his tips for making the most delicious pancakes:

• Always weigh out the dry ingredients. It's especially important to weigh out the flour which can become very compact.
• For the best batter consistency, use both all-purpose and cake flours.
• If using baking soda include an acidic ingredient in the wet mixture. Brown likes buttermilk.
• To create your own pancake mix, measure several batches of the dry ingredients. Keep stored in air-tight container. Shake to combine before using the pancake mix.
• Don't overbeat. The batter should be lumpy.
• Be patient! When bubbles form around the edges of the cake and the center looks firm and set, carefully pick up with a spatula and flip over.

Did Alton Brown forget something? What's your technique for making the best pancakes?

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