{"id":302601,"date":"2026-02-17T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302601\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:02:10","slug":"how-the-price-of-a-pancake-has-risen-35-in-five-years-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302601\/","title":{"rendered":"How the price of a pancake has risen 35% in five years \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t flip out, but the cost of making a simple pancake has jumped by more than a third since 2020. The Central Statistics Office\u2019s (CSO)<\/a> breakdown of pancake inflation, published to coincide with Shrove Tuesday, indicates the cost of a basic pancake mix \u2013 eggs, milk, and flour \u2013 has risen by 35.2 per cent in the last five years.<\/p>\n

Between December 2020 and December 2025, the agency noted the cost of two litres of full-fat milk increased by 72 cent (42.6 per cent); the cost of 2kg of flour grew by 62 cent (31.6 per cent) while a carton of six large eggs rose by 57 cent (32 per cent).<\/p>\n

Pancake inflation is higher than general food-price inflation, which was put at 27.3 per cent for the five-year period.<\/p>\n

Higher food prices <\/a>reflect the lagged effect of higher energy prices. Daragh Cassidy of price comparison website Bonkers.ie said gas prices <\/a>are still \u201cdouble where they were three or four years ago before the war in Ukraine, and electricity prices are around 70 to 80 per cent higher than they were\u201d.<\/p>\n

Inflation <\/a>here, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, is hovering at about 3 per cent.<\/p>\n

While other sectors like education had bigger year-on-year price increase, food and restaurants, including coffee shops, have a significantly bigger weighting in the headline rate.<\/p>\n

The cost of meat, and in particular beef, has been highlighted as one of the single biggest factors driving restaurant prices.<\/p>\n

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Inflation is a fuzzy concept. It\u2019s not one single measurement but an estimate of price changes across a range of goods and services. How it translates into purchasing power is not straightforward. <\/p>\n

\u201cTopping off your pancake with a sprinkle of sugar is more expensive, too, with sugar showing the largest percentage increase of all four items we looked at,\u201d said the CSO, noting that the price of a 1kg bag of sugar has risen by 69 cent (60.5 per cent) over the five years since December 2020.<\/p>\n

One consolation was that the price of sugar was flat as a pancake last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t flip out, but the cost of making a simple pancake has jumped by more than a third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,6572,14787,943,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-302601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cantillon","10":"tag-central-statistics-office","11":"tag-cost-of-living","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}