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The ordered routine from thin batter to cooling rack, with the three failure modes it prevents.
Baking is dry heat typically above 300 degrees Fahrenheit (148 degrees Celsius), and eleven separate events, including starch gelatinisation, run at the same time while the batter sets. The order of operations exists to keep those events aligned: the batter must spread before the starch locks, and the surface must set before the centre dries out.
Step one is the batter — mix it thin, thinner than instinct suggests, because a flat iron gives the batter only a moment to spread across the grid. Step two is the iron: rub the hot iron with butter on a cloth. A brush leaves pools that burn into the pattern and weld the sheet to the rim.
Step three is the pour — a little at a time, so nothing squeezes out the sides. Step four is the cook: close the iron, let the first side set, open once to check colour, close again for the second side. Step five is the release: lift the sheet onto a rack the moment it comes free.
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The three typical failures map one-to-one onto skipped steps. Sticking dough comes from an unevenly greased iron or an overfilled pour. A burnt pattern comes from butter left in pools or from leaving the closed iron too long on one side. A soft centre comes from a batter that was too thick to spread, or from a sheet left on the iron instead of moving to the rack.
Cooling on the rack is part of the bake, not a separate task. The sheet continues to reorganise after it leaves the iron, and air on both faces is what interrupts that reorganisation while the structure is still hot enough to hold its shape.
The storage step that follows — airtight tin at room temperature, never the refrigerator — is covered on the main page and on the cooling page.
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