I often cook pancakes on the plain aluminium Trangia lid frypan. Works great. I just use a bit of butter. Butter does burn easier than most oils, but it doesn't stick as bad when it does burn, and it tastes much better too (burnt or otherwise
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The lowest setting (Trangia metho) is not hot enough for pancakes, I reckon. I cook 'em with the damper ring on but fully open. This gets a little too hot sometimes, so I just have to hold the pan off the flame for a while in between pancakes (ie, when serving, adding more butter, adding the mixture, etc).
The pancakes cook beautifully, and I've never had sticking problems. But that's just with the shaker-bottle style ones. My main problem is that I usually forget to bring an implement for turning (the Trangy lid doesn't make a very good flipping pan). I usually have to resurrect an empty packet of something from my rubbish collection for this job.