Awesome Pancakes

Are you hungry? Then, you might not want to watch this video of a cook fixing a batch of Japanese spherical pancakes in a specially-designed griddle. The finished product looks delicious, but it’s the precision with which the chef deposits the batter and flings the completed treats out of the mold that makes the clip genuinely satisfying.

It’s breakfast time somewhere, right? Sit back and enjoy a tall stack of pancakes, as DA BOMB ART fixes 20 meticulously illustrated edible logos, inspired by movie studios and production companies. They look awesome, but we’d slather them with butter and syrup and devour them all in minutes.

There’s no need to choose between fluffy pancakes or crispy waffles with the PanWaffle. It’s a stovetop pan that makes a waffle in the middle of a pancake. It has handles that stay cool and it comes apart so you can fit it inside a dishwasher.

Nissin Foods USA has announced a special version of its popular Cup Noodles just for American tastes. The instant ramen includes bits of sausage and eggs, along with the flavors of pancakes and maple syrup. The limited-edition noodles arrive this week at select Walmart stores. They’re either going to be awesome or awful.

Why make your own pancakes when you can let machines do it for you? The Brick Wall shows off another impressive LEGO factory they built that cracks eggs, mixes them with flour, pours the batter on a hot griddle, and flips pancakes. Now they just need a LEGO syrup and butter robot.

This single-purpose kitchen appliance comes from the same guys who gave us the cars & trucks waffle maker. Its unique design lets you make delicious stuffed pancakes by layering on a filling of choice, then pouring more pancake batter into its top opening while it cooks.

Artist Douglas Pryor specializes in sculpting, raising, chasing, and repousse techniques to produce incredible 3-dimensional metal art. Watch as he hammers a flat sheet of copper into a playful sculpture of a gecko slurping syrup off a stack of pancakes. He’s currently working on an awe-inspiring crocodile.

Tom Wrigglesworth and Matt Robinson of Wriggles and Robins created this fun stop-motion animation that tells the story of a boy’s action-packed journey to the moon, using pancakes as their medium. They cooked up about 600 pancakes to capture the action, though we’re not sure how many of those they ended up eating.

If there’s one thing that we love for breakfast, it’s a fat stack of buttermilk pancakes, slathered in butter and warm maple syrup. But if you’re craving that flavor while sitting on the bus, you can’t exactly whip out the griddle. Thankfully, Jelly Belly has us covered anytime.

Nathan Shields made a neat little device he calls the Pangraph which he uses to pour pancake batter from a bottle directly to the griddle in spirograph patterns. With it he’s able to produce some awesome looking breakfast treats.

Serving up the perfect breakfast, designer Jon Wye’s special-purpose ceramic plates have a sloped surface and reservoir to collect pooling syrup so you can dip each bite in the sticky stuff.

(PG-13: Language) Mac Lethal’s killer cover of Chris Breezy’s Look at Me Now, with lyrics slightly tweaked to reflect the fact that its being performed at the same time he’s cooking breakfast.