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How big is a pancake?

A pancake is about 15 cm (5.91 in) across.

What is measured: single cooked pancake, diameter

Pancake (15 cm) drawn to scale beside a smartphone (14.7 cm) and a bowling pin (38.1 cm)
Drawn to scale, from left to right: Smartphone (14.7 cm), Pancake (15 cm) and Bowling pin (38.1 cm).

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How big is that, really?

  • About the height of a smartphone
  • About 1.8× the length of a credit card
  • As wide as about 6 large coins side by side
  • About 39% of the height of a bowling pin
  • About 21× the length of a grain of rice

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Facts about Pancake

The earliest known pancake-like foods were made thousands of years ago, long before modern baking powder was invented.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Pancake”; Oxford English Dictionary, “pancake”

Food & Drink

NameSizeCompared with Pancake
Orange8 cm (3.15 in)0.53×
Hamburger10 cm (3.94 in)0.67×
Avocado10 cm (3.94 in)0.67×
Bell pepper10 cm (3.94 in)0.67×
Pomegranate10 cm (3.94 in)0.67×
Soda can12 cm (4.72 in)0.8×
Grapefruit12 cm (4.72 in)0.8×
Coconut15 cm (5.91 in)same size
Pancake15 cm (5.91 in)this page
Durian25 cm (9.84 in)1.7×

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Which is bigger: Pancake or Soda can?

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