Perfect Pancake Big Disappointment
We love pancakes. Pancakes are some of our favorite things on this earth. In fact, if we had to eat pancakes every day for the rest of our lives, well, that'd be just fine by us.
So it was with great disappointment that we discovered the Perfect Pancake failed to live up to its most basic promises.
For us, the Perfect Pancake was, alas, perfectly useless.
You've surely seen the Perfect Pancake, whether in TV commercials or on store shelves. It's a great-sounding product. Yummy, fluffy, round pancakes every time ... or so the makers of the Perfect Pancake claim.
Don't believe the hype.
The Perfect Pancake is a small, two-piece griddle; the bottom half is what the makers call a "beveled deep dish," while the top part is flat. A hinge allows the top part to open or close over the bottom part.
So the pancake lover merely whips up a batch of pancake mix, pours some of the batter into the Perfect Pancake, and waits until it's time to flip. Rather than flipping with a spatula, the top half of the Perfect Pancake is closed and the whole unit is flipped. The pancake falls from the one cooking surface onto the other - no danger of breaking the pancake through clumsy spatula work. When ready, the pancake slides right off the non-stick cooking surface onto your plate.
Well, that's how it's supposed to work. Here's how it really worked for us:
The Perfect Pancake is too small to cook more than one pancake at a time. The instructions caution to cook only on medium heat or lower, and following the recommended cooking time, pancakes take 7 minutes each to cook. If you're planning on having a stack of three pancakes, your first one will be ice cold by the time the third one comes out of the Perfect Pancake.
If you can get it out, that is. Because nonstick, with the Perfect Pancake, apparently does not mean that foods don't stick to the cooking surface. We followed the instructions for first-time use of the Perfect Pancake (wiping down the surface with oil, for example), but our very first pancake needed a nudge to fall from the top to the bottom after flipping. Our second one didn't fall, even after banging the unit on the stovetop and banging the top of the unit with our spatula. We finally had to turn it over and use a spatula after all to flip the pancake.
Before our first pancake was even finished, we had already taken out a regular griddle and begun cooking other pancakes. By the time our second pancake had become stuck to the top of the Perfect Pancake, our disappointment was complete.
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