While I was working overseas I missed this one. Behold, the latest in breakfast technology: aerosol pancakes.
Batter Blaster!
Because in America, if there’s anything we love, it’s eating and blasting things. It was only a matter of time before someone figured out a way to combine the two.
Batter Blaster is “organic pancake and waffle mix” in a can. A pressurized gas shoots the batter from the can, directly onto your eagerly awaiting frying pan. It’s the latest entry in the “aerosol foods” market (I didn’t make up that term, honest).
What, you don’t follow the aerosol foods market?
According to Batter Blaster’s easy instructions, “Just point, blast and cook!”
POW! Instant pancakes!
“No mess -- No cleanup!”
No more wasting time preparing nutritious food for your family! No! Those undeserving Sluggos! Preparing food is a curse! And it’s way too complicated, what with all the stirring and all.
Food should be instant! Food should be blasted at supersonic speeds! Pow! Food! Eat!
Okay, seriously. Pancakes. How long does it take to make pancake batter? A minute? It’s probably the easiest recipe on the planet.
If someone is going to go through the trouble of making aerosol food, I think it should at least be something that’s super hard to make. Or something that takes all day. Like Emeril Lagasse's labor intensive Roast Pork Butt with creole seasoning. It taxes 6 1/2 hours to make. If someone could put that in an aerosol can, it would be a genuine help. All that extra time could be spent for more urgent dinner-party related tasks. Like getting all liquored up.
On second thought, maybe not. Guests might not react well if the host came stumbling out of the kitchen with a can of "Butt-Blaster".
Meanwhile, in the interest of consumer protection, the Food and Drug Administration has strict guidelines for new food products involving pressurized gasses. They have to be tested by Regis and Kelly:
Komentari
They forgot...
... to put NON Sticking SPRAY!!!
Spray
Aerosol
something is mising...
Maybe maple syrup in powder?
We are doing some similarly wired drink pack... next week... we will show you
now it is a secret...
Funny you should mention...
Aerosol maple syrup was actually tested in the 1970s. In 1976, a researcher from the Peterson/Puritan chemical company said they had some problems:
"The product (aerosol maple syrup) comes out clear, then clouds and turns opaque as nitrogen bubbles form and enlarge. In a minute or so the gas bubbles pop at the surface and the syrup again becomes clear. By that time, however, the startled housewife may already have tossed the can in the trash."
That was the same company that developed "Spray-n-Wash" aerosol laundry detergent. Maybe they should've dropped the research though. A decade later, the Environmental Protection Agency designated their land in Cumberland, RI, as a Superfund toxic waste site (true).
He said they also tested aerosol cocktails -- Manhattans and Mai Tais.
Sprayed food
Useful links
http://www.pam4you.com/index.jsp
http://www.halfbakery.com/category/Food_3a_20Spray
I believe there's quite a lot of these around... never before had opportunity to think about it...
Who is using this stuff?
All you have to do now
is spray on some Easy Cheese, and perhaps add a touch of Crisco shortening (in spray). I wonder what's next... whether it'll be astronaut food or MRE TV dinners... Anyhow, thanks for this post, it made my day. I don't think I'll look at pancakes the same way ever again! :P