In the large bowl, combine flour (250g), baking soda (1/2 tsp.), baking powder (2 tsp.), sugar (3 tbsp.) and salt (1/2 tsp.) until everything is a big pile of white dust.
Wet Ingredients
In the medium-sized bowl, whisk together buttermilk (2 1/4 cups), eggs (2), and vanilla extract (1 tsp.)
Melt the butter (half stick)
Slowly drizzle the butter into the wet ingredients
Bring it All Together
Using a wooden spoon and featherweight hands, pour the wet ingredients over the dry ingredients until you barely combine them. Don’t over-mix it – it should have a few bits of dry flour in it. Seriously, don’t fuck this up.
Cook Them Puppies
Heat the skillet up to roughly 350F. Throw a bit of butter/cooking spray/oil on the skillet and let it warm up (at least 5 minutes; that’ll give the batter some time to stiffen up)
Take a 1/2 cup of batter and get to cookin’
Flip that puppy about a minute or so after the bubbles start showing at the top
Continue cooking until it’s golden brown and looks like a pancake you’d want to eat
Keep ’em Warm
Heat the oven to 200F
Put the pancakes on a pan in the warm oven to keep them toasty until everything else is ready!