I recently posted a recipe for Gingerbread Pancakes with Buttered Apples (yum!), and as usual, the Southern husband was standing by in the kitchen as I worked on the recipe. Also as usual, I was changing this and that and muttering under my breath about things that didn't go exactly right the first time. And one of the things that didn't go exactly right was the griddle I used. I have a gas stove and one of those griddles that sits on the burners, and it never heats evenly. Meaning that my pancakes took a while to cook right as I tried to figure out the best place on the griddle for each of them, heat-wise.