Comments on: Push button, receive pancake

By: Michael Crumpton

Michael Crumpton — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:06:00 +0000

Considering how good my leftover frozen homemade pancakes are when reheated, I am surprised they bother with the complexity of this machine.

By: belgand

belgand — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:03:00 +0000

IIRC from the HI Express I was at in Klamath Falls you get two pancakes per press of the button.

Fun fact: traveling in California north of San Francisco is like playing Fallout 2!

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:58:00 +0000

It makes ONE pancake at a time? And it’s in AMERICA?

I’m a skinny Brit, but I’d still throw a tantrum if I waited for one measly pancake.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:56:00 +0000

Reminds me of the toast conveyor belts you get in some hotels.

I’ve also seen a much larger version used for making pizza. They just seem so inefficient, half the heat must escape out of the front, but still, pizza on a conveyor belt.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:52:00 +0000

I’d press it at least twice.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:51:00 +0000

@mistwolf:disqus Pikelets are crumpets!

They are, however, also delicious.

Seriously though, @Antinous are you genuinely the one person on the planet that doesn’t enjoy pancakes?

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:31:00 +0000

I’m old school. I prefer PUSH BUTT RUB HANDS UNDER ARM HAIR.

By: mistwolf

mistwolf — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:40:00 +0000

How do you feel about pikelets? ;)

By: jmcilhaney

jmcilhaney — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 02:53:00 +0000

They taste just awful. I am a road warrior in Texas and HI Ex is a hotel frequented in my travel zones. They are flat, no rise whatsoever, lack any sort of flavor. I try to stick to local eateries, but in a pinch, HI Ex breakfast will work. Now their cinnamon roll, that is a different story…

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 02:14:00 +0000

…that are ALWAYS broken. I have not gotten bacon out of one, ever!

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 02:11:00 +0000

That’s just what pancakes said about you.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:50:00 +0000

I like pancakes and love waffles, but unless they are really good, they just become a vehicle to carry the butter and syrup to my mouth.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:46:00 +0000

I think these must be a common thing to Holiday Inn Express. My wife and I stayed at one in either VA or WV and they had one of these. I mean they weren’t as good as I can make from scratch, but for something that takes a minute to come out hot and ready they weren’t bad.

By: billstewart

billstewart — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:41:00 +0000

I’m surprised by the assertions of “gluten free” and “all natural”. If you’re using the standard mix for these machines, the first ingredient is “enriched bleached wheat flour”, which contains gluten, and a whole bunch of other typical American processed bakery product ingredients, few of which I’d call “all natural”.

It’s possible that you’re using some other mix, and pancakes can usually function adequately without gluten holding them together, but the standard bag is highly unlikely to be gluten-free.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:48:00 +0000

Pancakes are nasty. You can keep them.

By: Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:11:00 +0000

Is there an option to add strawberries?
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Strawberry+Pancakes/

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:51:00 +0000

What’s fun is when the bag o’ batter runs dry – it makes a pancake ribbon instead of a pancake disk. Or at least the one I got to use one morning was doing this. They didn’t even have it plugged in the next morning.

By: Mike Perkowitz

Mike Perkowitz — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:42:00 +0000

for some reason this reminds me of the David Cross “Squagels” bit. I guess it’s the shrugging-about-breakfast-food angle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2QqrvSryQA

By: Eddie Perkins

Eddie Perkins — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:03:00 +0000

Can I wear it like a feedbag?

By: buggzzee23

buggzzee23 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:46:00 +0000

Here’s the specs:

http://www.americanquickfoods.com/index.php/machine-mix

By: Jack Daniel

Jack Daniel — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:20:00 +0000

PeeWee Herman approves.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:16:00 +0000

In an ideal world it would, when turned off, yell, “NO PANCAKES FOR YOU!” whenever anyone came too close. Like one of those car alarms that tells you you’re too close to the car, but genuinely entertaining.

By: digi_owl

digi_owl — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:06:00 +0000

As an Norwegian the similarities between American pancakes and what we call svele always trips me up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svele

By: digi_owl

digi_owl — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:05:00 +0000

Reminds me of something i have seen been used to heat burger buns. Basically you slip each half in at the top, and they come sliding out at the bottom nice and toasty.

By: snah

snah — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:01:00 +0000

Here’s a video of it in action!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanskellner/6870517385/

By: ablebody

ablebody — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:49:00 +0000

just saw one at holiday inn express breakfast in savannah on monday. one sad pancake flopped out for the guy in front of me. he shrugged and made a could-be-worse noise.

By: Dave D

Dave D — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:40:00 +0000

I tried one at a Holiday Inn Express in TX. Though the pancake tasted fine, it came out in pieces. Of course, the staff had no idea what to do except turn it off and report it broken.

By: dahellisdat

dahellisdat — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:39:00 +0000

Where’s my cornballer?

By: mappo

mappo — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:16:00 +0000

Yes. Yes I did.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:13:00 +0000

Maybe we can get a BoingBoing pancake club together and use our buying power to get a discount!