Pancake Puffs: Infomercial Review

Pancake Puffs: Infomercial Review

As soon as I heard the name for the product advertised on a commercial the other day, I knew I'd be buying it. After all, how could you NOT buy something with a cool name like “Pancake Puffs”? Heck, I thought it was tissue paper with a pancake design and I was ready to buy.

Turns out, Pancake Puffs is a kitchen device for making my favorite thing: Food. So you can make these muffin-shaped “pancakes” with Pancake Puffs. And by the way, in my part of the world, we had a different name for pancakes shaped like muffins; we called them “muffins.”

Same with the pizza-flavored pancake puffs they show. We call those “pizza rolls.” But let's not quibble over semantics. The food all looks delicious and easy to make.

I could perhaps do without the 50 “flipping sticks.” If you haven't seen the commercial, visualize a toothpick Now visualize it about three times the length. That's a “flipping stick.”

As much as I want Pancake Puffs, I don't know if my wife will agree. If you see the commercial, you'll understand. Regular pancakes stack nice and neat...until you add syrup, at which time syrup gets over everything. At least, when I'm eating them, it does. Now imagine a slob like me stacking ROUND pancakes up pyramid style, with gooey syrup dripping all the way down. Are you seeing the mess in your mind? I know my wife is.

So I can't count on her to buy me Pancake Puffs. For that reason, let the call go forth: if you want to buy me something for Christmas, I love pancakes. And muffins. And pancake-muffins,even.