UnTreeHugger: Organic Batter Blaster

My mom irks me when she makes cardboard pre-mix pancakes rather than taking the additional minute to meter out a whopping 5 dry ingredients and 3 wet ones to make superior flapjacks.

she would love this crap.

Now if it heated it up and cooked it AS it was blasting it....that would be sweet. Just squirt into mouth.

I'm a parent and I would not go near soemthing like this. This reminds me of a bad packaged food comercial from the 50's

If they invented something like this where I could stuff my own batter into the can and then squirt it out...
wait, that already exists, it´s called a pastry bag.

The part that takes the longest in preparing waffles and pancakes is not the mixing, but the actual cooking, so this doesn´t really solve any "morning rush" problems... in any case, isn´t that the reason toaster waffles were invented?

i want one, just to have as a novety.

Someone mentioned toaster waffles ....

Did you know it is easy to freeze your own waffles (just make extra when you've bothered to heat up your iron). You can put them in the toaster or, for better results, back into the same waffle iron. I freeze them in aluminum foil (from recycled sources, of course), and then transfer to a different container. I then reuse the aluminum foil for other purposes.

The extra time it takes me to do this? On the weekend when I make the waffles, maybe 15 minutes. During the weekday, it is no slower than store bought. BTW, they taste WAY better (shocker, I know).

You can also freeze pancakes and French toast - I do it all the time with leftovers from eating out (who can eat three enormous pancakes???). I put them in a Ziploc freezer bag, which I rinse out and use again when I'm done.

Yeah, this is really gross.

I wonder if you can eat it straight from the can...yum...the lack of cooking would save some CO2 emissions and maybe offset the difference in the amount of CO2 expended to make the can vs. the packaging for all the other pancake ingredients.

This goes to show you that organic does not automatically equal better. And it shows the advertising power organic is gaining, for better or worse.

How long until the anti-organic backlash, if junk like this hops on the bandwagon?

A bowl of müsli with milk or yoghurt is quicker and healthier.

That just seems so wrong!

Dear Treehugger,

When you do not support a product like this, you should not like to their site. Google and other search engines sees a link from a noteworthy site such as yourself as a "vote" or endorsement.

Love,
Todd

In my year of being a food inspector...nothing surprises me now.

I hope there are not eggs or milk or butter sitting in a can...on a shelf...at room temperature... somewhere

I bet it is located on the same shelf as twinkies? I bet mos people don't realize twinkies are not "food", they are pass through...like when a baby eats a marble or penny or plastic...yeak!

Though it is innovated...but not the best mechanism for getting "food".

I bet my golden retrievers would love it! Like dog cheese or peanut butter....

Haha, what a waste!

Making pancakes and waffles from scratch is so easy, even my twelve year old son makes them on the weekend- for the whole family.

A bag of flour goes a long way.

"My mom irks me when she makes cardboard pre-mix pancakes rather than taking the additional minute to meter out a whopping 5 dry ingredients and 3 wet ones to make superior flapjacks."

Why not make you're own breakfast, and do it right?

Old enough to post on the internet yet his mom makes his breakfast...

Regarding Todd's post, you can still provide the url for accreditation, but keep it un-hyperlinked. Just write it in and people can cut-and-paste if they're still curious. Two birds, one stone.

Um, has anyone considered that to make a normal flapjack you'd need:

Milk (1 x packaging)
Sugar (1 x packaging)
Eggs (1 x packaging)
Salt (1 x packaging)
Flour (1x packaging)
Possibly oil (if not using non-stick) (1 x packaging)
(etc)

Granted you won't use up these entire packages for every meal, but then how many flapjacks do you get from one "can" anyway?

So now how about that comment on waste? And let's be real here - instant mix or not, flapjacks are still bad for you as a breakfast, although it does seem to fit into the average North American food group, although nobody ever seams to notice. Now try and consider THAT, you time-strapped, parental types.

I buy flour, sugar, and salt in bulk. I don't use eggs or milk, either. Vegan pancakes with wheat flour aren't really bad for you at all-- at least not 'till I smother them with maple syrup :D

I buy flour, sugar, and salt in bulk. I don't use eggs or milk, either. Vegan pancakes with wheat flour aren't really bad for you at all-- at least not 'till I smother them with maple syrup :D

The only poissibly redeeming use might be camping!!! Or am I just lazy?

Excellent in a food fight. If only they could do this with bacon.

We picked up a three pack of Batter Blaster at CostCo and gave a can to friends going camping. They loved the ease of packing, making and cleaning the pancakes up! They also said that they tasted great! Here is a review: http://blog.clubgrub.com/2007/10/24/batter-blaster-pancakes-in-a-can/

Many of you point out how easy it is to make pancakes. Do you have children? And those of you that poke fun at your moms - did you ever offer to help her make or clean up breakfast? Or, were you too busy slipping on your Uggs to go attend a beach clean up. That is what I was doing.

Now that I have kids, I get it. For those of you that do not have one or more children under 5, on an early Saturday morning when evryone is wanting attention from the husband in bed to the toddler getting ready for a party or sports class to the baby wondering where breakfast is - this product does provide relief to a tired mom stretched to thin.

Try them before you judge them!

I personally wouldn't eat this because it contains eggs and I live on a vegan diet.

but if I were to look at this product in terms of how 'green' it is, I could point out two different views.

1) its organic, the product itself is grown without pesticides and stuff, and it makes [lazy] people aware that organic is good. where is this product going to be sold? this product should hit the shelves in the average grocery store to show people that organic can be good.

2) this product is super possessed. a lot more energy and materials went into this product, than if you made pancakes from scratch. and that alone is enough to make me not want to use it, and its a little too convenient for me.

Well, that's one bread product I won't miss since I have Celiac disease.

it's great for people who would normally buy this crap ( er, i mean food) anyway, AND it was grown pesticide free and that does mean something. "ORGANIC"doesn't mean healthy, it just tells you how it was grown and or processed. I certiainly wouldn't buy the product, but for those that would, I'm glad there's something out there that is one bit less frankenstein- no GMO's in a can. Bon Appetit!

It may be organic, but that doesn't mean it's good for you - these days, all of my baked goods (including waffles and pancakes) contain at minimum half whole wheat flour, so that no one in the family gets a crazy sugar rush or starch coma. (Which we do, if the pancakes are made with all white flour.)

I'm sort of opposed to the product on principle, but the lack of whole grains would turn me off even for convenience purposes like camping.

LOVE THIS STUFF!!! It is AWESOME!!!!! I use them all the time. As a busy Mom of 2 small children my mornings are filled with rushing around to get them ready and out the door on time. I love giving the kids a hot breakfast and the cleanup is a snap just rinse the dispenser and stick the can back in the fridge.

By the way you can add whatever you like while the are cooking the 1st side. Blueberries, Bananas and my fav....Chocolate Chips!

When I heard about this at a friend's house, my immediate reaction was "What do they call it, Pancake Whiz?" I still think that's the best possible idiomatic designation, since it adequately conveys the cultural baggage that comes with the product; "organic" (for whatever that word, in the hands of the USDA, may be worth) or not, I'm not going to buy any.

Carb Eater- maybe you oughta get the husband out of bed on the weekend and teach your kids to help out in the kitchen, if you're so strapped for time you feel the need need to use some silly processed spray batter to feed them all.
Just sayin.

You have got to be kidding me... that got an organic seal on it? What's organic about it the steel can it's in? Seriously, this is nothing shy of stupid.

Haters need to try them before forming an opinion. They're delicious!

i must be an awful awful person. i thought it looked like fun. my husband googled the batter blaster and read an article about the creator of it. it IS refrigerated and NOT like twinkies. as i recall, it does not use CO2, so you don't have to worry about that. it doesn't have a nitrous oxide blast like whipped cream cans.

we got some after my husband read about it - we just used it this morning. it was fun and good. a bit spendy for normal everyday use - and i DO make healthy pancakes quite often - with organic this and organic that and hemp and flax and pumpkin, but i think this will be awesome for camping.

it tasted pretty good to me and mine.

Would my great grandparents recognize it as food? I'm not sure that they would, so I think I'll stay away from it. :)

For some reason this product gives me a bad gut feeling. Like some natural instinct saying to me: "That is not food." I wrote an article about it on my blog actually. It's more "rant" than "article" though. haha

Would my great grandparents recognize it as food? I'm not sure that they would, so I think I'll stay away from it. :)

For some reason this product gives me a bad gut feeling. Like some natural instinct saying to me: "That is not food." I wrote an article about it on my blog actually. It's more "rant" than "article" though. haha

I was curious so I got a 3 pack. It's actually not bad. And yes we did convince someone to try it straight from the can, it was described as a pancake flavored root beer float taste. www.theforbiddenchicken.com if you want to see pics.

so we saw this in the store and pointed and laughed... then bought some.

seriously, it's actually good. and it's 1 recycleable can... and less bowls & utensils to wash.

we love this stuff. don't knock it till you try it.

I tried this product. Frankly, I was stunned, as I didn't expect much. It made a really great pancake, but it paled in comparrison to the waffle. This is where it truly hooked me. The waffles it makes are FANTASTIC, which is most surprising in that pancake batter and waffle batter shouldn't be interchangeable. In any event, I'll not only be buying it again, but I'm talking a local grocer into carrying it as well.

As someone who makes almost everything from scratch except Mac and Cheese, I am already looking for it. Not for the house but for the annual camping trip. 3Days, 30 kids, no running water, very little ice. I'm all over this one.

I think this would be a great thing for my sister. She loves pancakes and waffles but cant cook. Her son loves to cook but good luck getting the two of them to come up with a working batter. It seems like a fun easy way for kids to cook.

"My mom irks me when she makes cardboard pre-mix pancakes rather than taking the additional minute to meter out a whopping 5 dry ingredients and 3 wet ones to make superior flapjacks.

she would love this crap. "

Um, if it bugs you that much why don't YOU make some pancake mix? If you know how to type, I assume you have the faculties to cook your own breakfast :-)

These are the best! Once I heard they were organic, I was sold. I like making stars, letters, hearts and fun shapes on the griddle. You can do dinner by having pancakes with chili on top or you can do them sweet. My favorite is a waffle ice cream sandwich. Coffee ice cream goes great. Open faced with whipped cream and it's a treat. And there's always Snoop Dogg's favorite, fried chicken and waffles!

I bought this product at Costco and at first I was iffy about it, because it looked too packaged I thought it wouldn't taste good but it does, it's awesome. So easy to use and it is organic. If we are going to call all new inventions a method of promoting lazyness then let's just start walking to work and washing clothes by hand again. It's a great product and you should try it before putting it down.

Well... lovely to see how many don't read much before commenting, and how many are simply cold stone solid set against anything new..., how many love to compare a good faith effort to provide something a bit zany, handy and practical for those few who are a bit zany,handy and practical too. That said, usually I do make my own pancakes from scratch.

Many talk about the packaging - well, if we gotta have packaging, this isn't too bad - it's steel which is recyclable and it's only a tiny amount of plastic which is also recyclable. I don't know what the propellant is, but not likely to be too egregious...

Those commenting on shelf-life etc... well, it says all over the place that it has to be refrigerated - so, it is not a store on the shelf product and doesn't pretend to be.

As for its uses? Well sure, it is a time saver at home, but the best use is while camping - think about it... a cooler of ice and this can... (refrigerate remember?) and when it is raining cats and dogs and you want breakfast - easy, no mess with damp flour and mixing and cracking eggs and disposing of them so the bears don't come get ya... simple and direct.

So, though I won't use this at home because I like to throw all the other ingredients into my pancakes (granola, apples, buckwheat flour etc...) It was mighty handy when we camped recently! But a warning - we got exactly half the pancakes they suggest you will get - perhaps they calculated wrong?

Cheers!

I have to admit that I was just as sceptical as the rest of you but was visiting my in-laws and they made us pancakes from Batter Blaster. WOW! I've looked into it further and the ingredients are better than the rest of the products out there right now. Not only that they taste delicious. My friend, Pam, told me that I couldn't bash it until I tried it and I have to admit that is true. I agree that people won't understand this product until they taste it. I'm a believer. Well done Batter Blaster!!!!

Batter Blaster is good. Try it before you deny it.

This makes me SOOO sad. Why can't people cook anymore? Because the processed food industry has spent billions convincing us that it is long, slow, boring drudgery that we must be saved from, so that we can make room for the 4 hours of tv that the average american watches per night (I don't watch any, so some of you are picking up the slack, I'm sure...). And no, while I don't yet have children, my mother or father (who were single parents, lest that be an excuse...) made a hot breakfast for me and my three brothers almost every morning- mom from scrach, dad with bisquick... but still much less packaging than this and cheaper!
Everyone who says that this would be great for camping doesn't really understand the outdoors... let's go sleep under the stars and continue our horrendously wasteful and energy-consumptive lifestyle, just like at home, but with more packaging! Sounds like a great way to "reconnect" with the earth. Might as well stay at the super-8 down the highway. Ever try trail mix? How about fruit? Plus, this can is heavy... not a good thing to schlep with you. I suspect you're all car campers anyway.
Buy your dry goods in bulk, eggs in a paper carton (put the shells back in, crush the whole thing and put it on the compost pile. You have one of those, right?), milk and oil or butter in a recyclable or reusable container if possible. Premix dry ingredients in large batches and measure out what you need, add milk, eggs, and oil or butter, and voila. Your batter is ready before your pan is even hot. Not too shabby! Or, even better, make extra on the weekend and freeze them, as other posters have suggested. Pretty good...

I just tried this product and it is quite good. For me it makes sense, as a single person, because the lowest common denominator of a pancake batter recipe is one egg and that translate into at least 6 pancakes. For me this is too many. This product gives me the opportunity to have 2 pancakes and no leftovers.

I think I saw this while staying at a Super 8 motel this year, at the free continental breakfast. It smelled disgustingly sweet - seemed more like a Twinkie batter than actual food.

I agree with the commenter above who questioned whether their great grandparents would recognize this as "food". Mine certainly wouldn't, as I don't recognize it as "food".

Here's the yummy sounding ingredient list:
Filtered water
Organic wheat flour (unbleached)
Organic cane sugar
Organic whole egg solids
Organic soybean powder
Sodium lactate (lactic acid from beet sugar)
DiCalcium phosphate (leavening agent)
Sea salt
Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)
Organic rice bran extract

Sounds *just like* home cooking, right? Mmmmmm.
It's a bunch of refined crap, just the imputs, prior to being stripped of all nutrition, were grown organically - and surely on an industrial scale, not like the farmer's market style organic.

No thanks.

Actually, while it makes me cringe to think of using one of these at home, I would consider taking it camping.

Batter Blaster busts Guinness World Record with 76,382 pancakes cooked and served in an eight hour period. See the TV coverage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti1cRbD0XRE