Posted 08.07.2009 at 12:30 pm
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ChefStack Automatic Pancake Machine: courtesy ChefStack
At $3,500, this little beauty may not find its way onto my kitchen counter any time soon, but I have to admit it's tempting. Fill it with batter, close the lid, and the ChefStack shoots out perfectly formed pancakes at a rate of 200 per hour.
The superhuman PPH rate of the commercial device is not what's so compelling, though -- I doubt I could deal with 200 pancakes in an hour, even with all my neighbors' hungry kids to help. The killer feature is the streamlined way the machine emits and tidily stacks the cakes. The Teflon conveyor belts, pre-packed bags of batter, precision nozzles, and rapid heating elements that dwell within the ChefStack are concealed from view -- all you get is breakfast.
Now ... what if you mounted it on wheels, gave it a battery pack, overclocked the rollers a bit, and let it loose? The only thing cooler than an automatic countertop pancake machine is a free-roving pancake-propelled juggernaut that leaves behind a trail of fresh flapjacks.
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Wow... This makes me absurdly happy. Now I just need to work on that $3,500...
I can't wait to see this in a hotel, and I might just order more pancakes than I can eat just to watch it.
IHOP could use these things to set up pancake vending machines. Now that is something I would like to see.
I came across one of these beauties in London a few weeks ago.
They were very fast and pretty good taste to them but they don't beat the flavour of a home made pancake. I guess they have to use UHT milk in the batter as they will have to last a long time out of the fridge.
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Awesome! What next I wonder...?
Freebies galore at www.jessamycoupon.blogspot.com
I can't wait to see this in a hotel, and I might just order more pancakes than I can eat just to watch it. www.biancaboya.com
pass the butter lol :)-DaSonicMan
I have a midsized vegetarian eatery and was wooed by this fancy little gadget at a convention last summer to the point I ran out and picked one up a week later. I honestly thing this is the most amazing piece of cookware I ever came across.
rennatta, http://vegetarian-dishes.com/