Lesson Learned: Pancakes Do Not Reheat Well in the Toaster. I learned this the hard way, of course. I had two leftover pancakes and I thought, “great, I can use those for dipping the yolk from my fried eggs. I’ll just throw them in the toaster like I would with bread!”

Not one of my best ideas.

Those little metal prongs that are designed to hold up toast? Also designed for stabbing the hell out of pancakes when they slip down in between the prongs and the heating coils. I did all the wrong things to salvage these two pancakes, like sticking a metal knife (and fork, there was a lot of utensil work) into the toaster while it was still plugged in, but darn it, I saved every last crumb of those pancakes and lived to tell about it!