the egg is now in a nest made of shitty swords and soft puppet ass

I can safely say this thing is the best $20 I’ve spent on a kitchen doodad in a long time. Mostly I got it to make takoyaki–or, well, ebiyaki or some other kind of yaki, ’cause I ain’t eating no tentacles–and while the resulting puff is bigger than the standard takoyaki ball, it seems to work just fine. My ebiyaki were delicious. I used it tonight and made one batch of “breakfast takoyaki” which were regular pancake batter balls with chunks of veggie sausage in the middle, and one batch of plain pancake balls with the batter left over from that. I really want to try some corn fritters or some such.

It’s cast iron, and some of the Amazon commenters seem to be baww’ing about the stuff sticking (haven’t seen it–if it’s sticking, chances are it’s not ready to flip yet) and it being too hard to flip the puffs with skewers (it’s not that hard, really), but I have seen neither of those problems.

Also I got a steam cleaner for my carpet and immediately used it to attack that spot in the hall where Mini-Me likes to pee. It worked very well.

Originally published at Fire of Unknown Origin. You can comment here or there.