A friend of mine recently forwarded me a link to Batter Blaster, the solution for more convenient pancake and waffle making. I watched the video on their site (which is awesome) and realized that this is cooking UI for the extremely lazy.

I loved it.

The video really does explain it quite well. Instead of having to go through the time hassle, and mess of creating batter from scratch, you can just shoot it out of a can. No muss no fuss! I am so intrigued and would love to try it out, but there doesn’t appear to be a store within 25 miles of my ZIP code that sells it.

Of course the primary question that comes to mind is “How do they taste?” Presumably a pressurized can of batter is never going to compete with batter made with fresh ingredients. But hey, see the magic that Jelly Belly does with their flavors?

Next question: “What is it made of?” This must be a classic too-good-to-be-true scenario.  Or worse, is it comparable to another canned convenience: Easy Cheese* (blech!)?  The website lists an array of feel-good ingredients such as filtered water and organic wheat flour.  (It was also at that moment that I noticed the “USDA Organic” seal stamped all over the place.)  But wait!  There are some chemical-y sounding ingredients such as sodium lactate and dicalcium phosphate.   Hmm- apparently those are just lactic acid from beet sugar and a leavening agent.  Touché, Batter Blaster- you anticipated my skeptical ingredient-reading strategy.

Now I really DO want to try this. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to experience the convenience and sample the taste of this ingenuity. Can you imagine what camping trips could be like with this product??

* I just learned that cheese in a pressurized can is called Easy Cheese and not Cheez Whiz!  It’s kind of like that day when I learned that it’s not “Cup O’ Noodles.”  It’s “Cup Noodles.”  Yes- that sign in Times Square has said “Cup Noodles” this WHOLE TIME.

p.s. Ok- I just discovered that the website’s store finder ZIP code field is a little wonky.  There are indeed a plethora of stores near me that sell this.  I see pancakes for breakfast in my future…