Wriggles & Robins's "Max's Journey to the Moon" is a delightful stop motion animation created from 600 pancakes. They released it today in celebration of National Pancake Day, aka Shrove Tuesday. Read the rest
A while back I posted about the kind of fluffy pancakes you can get in Japan and how one guy said he makes them in a rice cooker. I still haven't tried it yet, but here's a simple recipe that I'd like to try from Kitchn:
Here’s how to make it at home: All you do is grease the insides of your rice cooker, pour your pancake batter in, set it to “cook/warm,” close the top, and for a 10-cup rice cooker, set the timer for 45 minutes or so, keeping an eye on it. Don’t worry if the giant pancake appears “wet” when you open the top. It’s just condensation from the steam. But do yourself a favor and give it a touch: it should feel firm and bouncy.
Image: Flipper's Pancake in Tokyo by Mark Frauenfelder, CC BY-SA 4.0 Read the rest
Whenever we go to Japan, we gorge on the fluffy souffle pancakes they serve in special pancake cafes there. Our favorite pancake cafe is Flipper's, but we also like Gram and Happy Pancake.
We were recently in Singapore and I took a video of a stack of 3 jiggly Gram pancakes being served to Carla:
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We've tried making these pancakes at home, but we can't achieve the same kind of bounciness and fluffiness. So when I saw this tweet about a guy who cooked a pancake in his rice cooker, I did a Google search for "pancake in a rice cooker" and learned that this is something people actually do and now I'm excited to try it myself.
I had some trouble with cooking pancakes on the stove today so I thought of resorting to the rice cooker to cook the rest of the batter.
Welp. pic.twitter.com/n9514f5EvZ
— AK Lee ? Samoa Joe's braid (@aklee_writes) January 19, 2020
Image: Flipper's Pancake by Mark Frauenfelder Read the rest
An unusual set of tweets from the official IHOP account suggests that the pancake house chain is going to be changing their name to IHOb. They haven't revealed what the "b" stands for but will on Monday, June 11, the day the name change is supposed to go into effect.
USA Today quotes IHOP’s executive director of communications, Stephanie Peterson, as saying, "We're serious about the quality of food and our menu, and this name change really reflects that."
Ok then.
For 60 pancakin’ years, we’ve been IHOP. Now, we’re flippin’ our name to IHOb. Find out what it could b on 6.11.18. #IHOb pic.twitter.com/evSxKV3QmT
— IHOP (@IHOP) June 4, 2018
IHOb? What could it b? #IHOb
— IHOP (@IHOP) June 5, 2018
This b is an A+ #IHOb pic.twitter.com/QI5rg1sJSP
— IHOP (@IHOP) June 6, 2018
photo by Mike Mozart
Thanks, Evan! Read the rest
Pancakes are delicious, and they can also look a lot like moons, as proven in Alternative Moons by Nadine Schlieper and Robert Pufleb. I tried my hand at making a few lunar flapjacks and gathering up some mouthwatering moons. Answers in the comments! Read the rest
An underground drain failed in Meridian, Mississippi, causing an IHOP parking lot to collapse. Patrons were given extra blueberry syrup as a consolation. (Not really.) Read the rest
By pancake artist Nathan Shields, whose other creations we've previously featured. Read the rest
Because the human brain is easily impressed with gadgetry, I give you an automatic pancake-making machine—as photographed by my friend Shav, who received his breakfast from it this morning.
A similar system showed up on Engadget back in 2009. That model cost $3500 and could produce pancakes, bag-of-batter to golden deliciousness, at a rate of 200 per hour.
Thanks to Keith for finding the Engadget link!
Jim, the resident genius at Jim's Pancakes, has made an AT-AT Walker OUT OF PANCAKES! PANCAKES!
Total time to create it was about 15 minutes, mostly because it took a while to get the legs “crispy” enough to hold up the body. From there, I placed the parts back on the griddle and used more pancake batter as “glue”. If you let the parts sit on low heat for long enough, the batter eventually cooks through and makes a nice strong connection.
And hey, lookit that, Jim's got a book coming out on making pancake art!
(via Craft)
AT-AT walker made from scrap computer parts – Boing Boing Engineering a real-life “Star Wars” AT-AT – Boing Boing At-At Walker Boombox – Boing Boing Gadgets Imperial Scott Walker, the worker-hating AT-AT Destroyer – Boing ... AT-AT for America: restore America's glory with a functional, full ... AT-AT jungle gym from a lost and golden age – Boing Boing AT-AT anatomy tee – Boing Boing Official LEGO Star Wars AT-AT Walker – Boing Boing Gadgets AT-AT meets Mystery Machine – Boing Boing Homemade AT-AT loft bed – Boing Boing AT-AT wedding cake – Boing Boing 3D dino skeleton pancake – Boing Boing Read the rest
