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It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.
- ScottWhigham 17y agoOMG I love this stuff. My wife brought some home about a month ago and damnit - they taste as good or better than most homemade pancakes. We buy them at Costco - try them if you see them.
- wallflower 17y ago> US Patent Application US 2007/0286933 A1 Refrigerator Stable Baking Batter In various embodiments of the present invention, a bakable batter mixed using cold process conditions and provided in a pressurized can, can be used to bake a variety of food products. In various embodiments of the present invention, a bakable batter mixed under inert atmosphere conditions and... http://www.google.com/patents/download/11_760_647_REFRIGERATOR_STABLE_PRESSURIZ.pdf?id=NmCjAAAAEBAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U1u50T_pVkpadJOoPcT9ZYFaSVmsQ&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0 http://www.google.com/patents/download/11_760_647_REFRIGERAT...
- Semiapies 17y agoInteresting reading! I wasn't aware you'd include things like details of pathogen-contamination testing in a patent application. (Or compare the results with CO2 vs N2. That's a detail of genuine interest to anyone trying to make a related product outside the scope of the patent, or a similar product after the patent expires.) I think they've shown their work.
- Tuna-Fish 17y ago> That's a detail of genuine interest to anyone trying to make a related product outside the scope of the patent, or a similar product after the patent expires. This is the very purpose of patents. To speed up innovation by forcing people to share their research in exchange for a limited monopoly. I find it both hilarious and scary that you find something special in this patent application.
- Semiapies 17y agoI find it predictable and dull that someone here would half-read what I wrote and display what would, anywhere else, be staggering social incompetence.
- j_b_f 17y agoThere's inspiration everywhere.
- sterwill 17y agoI tried them once and I thought they tasted pretty bad. I'm not sure how I could have screwed them up (shake, spray on hot griddle).
- damienkatz 17y agoSame thing for me. They tasted awful. Threw the rest of the can away.
- bshep 17y agoSame here, tasted like cardboard and had an awful consistency. I also threw the rest of the can away.
- JulianMorrison 17y agoI wonder if they sell these in the UK?
- axod 17y agoLikely not. Just like we don't get/want spray cheese. All sounds a bit yuck to me. I get the powder stuff. You can buy it from Tesco. Comes in a bottle, which is about 1/4 full of powder. You can store in the cupboard for ages. When you want pancakes you just open the bottle, fill it up with fresh milk, shake for ages then start cooking. Really tasty as well.
- jonursenbach 17y agoI don't think anybody wants spray cheese...
- dotBen 17y agoI would agree being a Brit living in USA. But they sell a ton of spray cheese here... ^_^
- RevRal 17y agoGive spray cheese a chance. Put it on a hot dog !
- mattmcknight 17y agoBut I get my cheese already in the hot dog...
- axod 17y agoSlightly off topic now, but I really don't understand how a nation like the US eats so much cheese, yet simply cannot make cheese :/ It's horrible depressing tasteless mush. I wonder if there's a specific reason you can't get real cheese in the US.
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- jsdalton 17y agoApologies, but the mobile version of the story that is linked to here got me so frustrated I almost threw my mouse across the room. Can't highlight text, can't copy text as a result, and the article itself looks like garbage. Here's a (better) link to the original article: http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/23/smallbusiness/batter_blaster.fsb/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/23/smallbusiness/batter_blaster...
- aw3c2 17y agoSounds like a browser issue. I can select and copy and whatever text just fine with Opera. All you miss is the image of the guy.
- ramchip 17y agoNot sure why aw3c2's comment got killed - I've been seeing this sometimes and I wonder if the autokill isn't a bit too strong. But indeed, you can highlight and everything just fine in Opera.
- trebor 17y agoI wish I could take the guy who came up with the headline to task! We've had a headline homicide... 1) "it is pancakes" isn't a sentence (ambiguous in the extreme). 2) The words "[it is] pancakes" are incompatible because "are" is the plural equivalent of "is". 3) "in a can" is not a sentence (lack of a subject & verb). 4) "it's made" is "it is made" not the "it has made" it should be. (It's as "it has" is not an official contraction due to its obvious ambiguity.) The unmurdered headline would be,− It's pancakes in a can, and it has made $15 million. </grammar-nazi> To CNN: Remember, it's my language you're abusing. Maybe you should care too? As a "big news agency" you should at least care enough to force your writers to learn basic English grammar!
- gruseom 17y agoThat's a reductio ad absurdum, since (begging your pardon) your revised headline sounds bad and lacks punch. Meanwhile the original headline qua headline seems fine. Headlines are their own specialized context with their own rules, somewhat different from the main rules. You might even say they have a domain-specific grammar. I'm upvoting your comment anyway because the concept of a subgrammar never occurred to me before and it's kind of neat. I'd be surprised if it weren't a well-known phenomenon among linguists though.
- HeyLaughingBoy 17y agoAin't that the truth!
- psygnisfive 17y agoIt's true that news headlines obey their own little grammatical rules. Language Log (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/) has mentioned this a number of times. Tho noone in the field really cares about it, because its not all the relevant to language on the whole.
- Retric 17y agoWhile you might feel the need to post such things, I would request you do that on some other form. It's effectively the same thing as trolling.
- rrhyne 17y agoProduces too much waste and it doesn't take that long to mix the batter yourself.
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- covercash 17y agoMy 7 year old cousin LOVES these. Every Sunday morning she gets to help dad make pancakes for the family.
- tptacek 17y agoSomething is wrong with a society that needs shortcuts to make pancake batter. It takes less than 5 minutes --- and even less time if you take just a few minutes to premix the dry ingredients ahead of time. I 100% believe this product adds value to people's lives, but I'm also pretty confident that that's because people are terrified to learn how to cook.
- DLWormwood 17y agoIf you read the article, you notice that the inventor claims that it's not something he'd use himself, but as a "low brow" product especially marketed towards children. A little kid would be more entertained by the notion of "spraying" food rather than go through the hassle of measuring ingredients and cleaning up the mixing bowls, etc.
- gommm 17y agoIt's not the inventor who claims that but a New York Chef: Manuel Trevino.
- dschobel 17y agoI think it's a fantastic case-in-point about how much value people place on convenience over quality. Also, it is impossible to overstate the importance of not making people think. Making pancake batter requires either remembering the recipe, or (gasp!) looking it up. With this product, all you have to know is that when you push the nozzle, shitty pancakes come out. Magic!
- andrewvc 17y agoI'm definitely not terrified to cook, my idea of fun is spending an hour or two in the kitchen making new exciting food. However, I picked up a can of this stuff the other day at the market and have been happy with it. My mornings are usually rushed, it takes less effort, and makes less of a mess. It's pretty easy to make bad food decisions in our society, and pancakes in a can are one of them, however, every once in a while it's OK. Also, they don't taste amazing, but they taste solidly average, which is fine by me for a quick breakfast. I don't see why people are getting so worked up about it. If there's anything people should be worked up about it's fast food breakfasts, that stuff makes these pancakes look like gourmet health food.
- _ck_ 17y agoDarn it, now I am hungry for pancakes after reading that, lol. And I don't have any of the ingredients around - see how handy his product would be?!
- bjelkeman-again 17y agoBjelkeman's (Swedish) pancakes/crepes, serves two: 3 eggs 6 dl milk 3 dl wheat flour 1 table spoon sugar 1 tea spoon salt 1/2 dl cooking oil (I use olive oil) 100 g butter If you cook electric, start warming the frying pans. I normally fry on 7 (out of 10). Mix the eggs. Add half the milk. Add the flour. Whisk together until smooth. Add the sugar, salt and remainder of the milk. Add the oil. Mix until the batter is smooth. About now the pans should be warm. Put a tea spoon of butter in each pan, spread it out in the pan. Add about a cup of batter (or so) to each pan. When the batter is congealed on the top of the pancake, use a long thin spatula to turn the pancake over. It should be yellow/golden brown on the fried side. Wait a minute. The pancake is done. Repeat from beginning of paragraph until out of batter. Serve with sweats or savoury as you prefer. Blueberries, ice cream, sugar and butter, strawberry jam, are my favourite toppings. All in all you can do this, with a bit of practice, from a standing start in 20 minutes. And the pancakes are superior to anything you will buy in a pack or a box. Promise. Notes: 1) can easily be scaled to fit, 1 egg = 2 dl milk = 1 dl flour 2) dl = decilitre 1/10 litre (about a small coffee cup)
- ugh 17y agoIf you want to, you can add some carbonated water.
- bjelkeman-again 17y agoWhat does that do to the pancakes?
- hardik 17y agoIt's $15m in revenues, he would have made much less.
- Tuna-Fish 17y agoPer year, with over 30% yearly growth. He could sell it for twice that.