Any IDEAS on what to cook on a griddle?

Question

I received a Princess house griddle for a gift, any ideas on what to cook other than pancakes? It just does not seem so practical. IT MUST do more than pancakes seeing the price was 100.00

HELP

Answer 1

Try potato pancakes. eggs, burgers.

Answer 2

These may be too close to pancakes for your taste.  

How about crepes?  You can make the crepe itself on a griddle, take it off the griddle and fill it with whatever filling you like.

How about quesadillas?  Flour tortillas, stuffed with cheese and other yummy items, heated on a griddle until the cheese melts?  Great stuff!

How about frying eggs?

Did it come with a cookbook?  If not, you might contact the company and ask.

Answer 3

I have a griddle and I cook bacon, steaks, hash browns, porkchops.  I cook anything that you don't need grease for.

Answer 4

eggs ..meat ...grill cheese  

Answer 5

Crepes are a wonderful variation of French pancakes.

But griddles are great for cooking breakfast for a crowd.

Bacon, sausages, ham, omelettes, French toast, Pan-cakes, etc.

Lunch: grilled cheese sandwiches, Rueben sandwiches, Hamburgers,

Dinner: Ham steaks, Chicken fingers, Fish filets,  

Answer 6

you can make grilled cheese..bacon..eggs..really anything that you can grill caan be made on it..

Answer 7

you covered the most common use for a griddle but here's a list of other things to cook on a griddle

french toast

hash brown potatoes

steak

hamburger

bacon

sausages of all sorts

eggs

panini sandwiches (use a heavy pan for the top weight)

grilled cheese sandwiches

crepes

pork chops

omelets

stir frys

fish

chicken

vegetables

anything you fry in a skillet with small amounts of liquid

etc.

Answer 8

The convenience of a griddle is that you can cook many different things at the same time without dirtying a bunch of pans.  It's like the grill at the restaurant.  Cook your eggs, bacon and hash browns or a burger, grilled onions and toasted buns.  Do a steak and some mushrooms.  Everything will be done at the same time.  

Answer 9

eggs, potatoes, veggies, chops, hamburgers, hot dogss, fried apples, onions, grilled cheese sandwiches, panie sandwiches, warm up leftovers, bacon, sausage, chicken breast, and so on.  God luck!  

Answer 10

It can also be used to keep soups and sauces warm or to heat up plates but mostly it is used for breakfast type foods, think of Waffle House - anything cooked on a grill there can be cooked on your griddle.

Answer 11

Griddles are great for cooking a good amount of food at once.  

You can cook a lot of things on them that you could cook on a skillet like hamburgers or steaks.  

To me, really, it's all about a lot of area.  Grilling steaks for the family, griddles are great.  

Other than that, don't think of a griddle as a tool that makes a certain type of food.  Think of it like any other pan, as a large flat pan that can be used to cook with just like any other pan.  

All that they're really not good for is sauce making or containing liquid.  

Personally, I think they are definitely more of a luxury item than a useful one for me.  

Answer 12

grilled ham and cheese

Answer 13

Great question.  

I had a griddle and only made pancakes and grilled cheese on mine.  It didn't seem very practical to me.

Answer 14

Anything you can make in a skillet, you can make on a grill.

Hamburgers, bacon, eggs, pancakes, stir frys even, hashbrown potatoes, steaks, all kinds of stuff.  

Answer 15

You should do grilled fruit, and make a cobbler out of the fruit. i saw it in a Rachel ray magazine. YOu can grill burgers(turkey for me only), or do chicken b*****s, get creative. Try to see what you can cook on the griddle

Answer 16

Grilled cheese, eggs, bacon, french toast, hash browns, tortillas, hamburgers,patty melts, any hot sandwich.

Answer 17

lightly spread some olive oil over some vegies and cook them on it.. really brings out the flavours and they are nice and crunchy :)

try asparagus, potatoes, zucchini even. just try anything be creative!!

Answer 18

hasbrowns

home fries

omlettes

scrambled eggs

hash

sausages

bacon

hamburgers

crepes

quesadillas

grilled cheese

almost anything you can cook in a skillet