Pancake Pen - Product Review

Jack tests out the Pancake Pen. Watch and see what happens.
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[@DerpsterTV]

Ive seen chimps put shapes in the correct corresponding hole yet a late-middle aged man can't put flour in a bottle without losing half.

[@KingStew071]

He always messes up the test then blames the product...

[@andayaman]

This guy looks like one of those infomercial actors failing miserably at performing simple tasks. Unfortunately he wasn't joking.

[@ClydeNibbles]

dude who cant draw with this thing complaining that it wont let him draw with it lol

[@TotalFacePlam]

I have used this product before it works! Your batter is too runny!!!!

[@myhappilyeverafter823]

You did it wrong you were supposed to mix the batter until it was pourable and then add it to the pen

[@jennathomas1354]

i can’t imagine the bottle makes the batter runny. i suspect he doesn’t know how to make pancakes

[@isaacduncan4605]

just use a ketchup bottle

[@TheDisasterMaster]

Isaac Duncan Nope.avi Use big scoop. 5% mess. 100% percent Ketchup wasted.

[@WobblesandBean]

I will forever be entertained by the sheer number of products designed to do things that are already the simplest things ever. It's a pancake dude, not beef wellington.

[@wupme]

He is to stupid to use that thing, and its not just meant to simply make pancakes

[@Dennis060796]

Cooking With Jack Show , Can you please re-do this product and NOT make your batter so runny? This was unfair and I think everyone would appreciate it. You simply made a mistake and probably made hundreds of people not buy this amazing product.

[@MonaLiz9]

Dry ingredients are measured different just sayin

[@nambinhvu]

Too runny, then add less water. lol Those look closer to crepes than pancakes. :P

[@jamesdevera6727]

nambinhvu yeah your right and maybe add 1 egg for better texture...

[@VLMcam789]

Its not the bottles fault for the mix being runny. If you add less watsr your mix will be thicker.trust me i know i love thick fluffy pancakes lol.. the recipie just wants you to streatch and have their mix for a long lasting time. Buy if you use less water you'll have thicker pancakes. The bottle is just releasing whats inside so its the recipies fault for runny pancakes..

[@bingobongo445]

Mix the batter in a bowl then put a funnel in the pancake pen and fill. I use a wide mouth funnel like the ones for canning jars. It's less messy.

[@_soggybaklava_]

That's why you just make pancake batter yourself instead of using a boxed mix, literally one of the easiest things ever

[@Bigheadedwon]

After he figured out the original batter was too thin, he made it two more times and it was still too watery. I was disappointed he didn’t try 1 final time and still not just use less water lol.

[@brandonpurple165]

hey Jack if you want to do a life hack, keep empty Ketchup Bottles and clean them out real well and stor pancake mix in there and you can make it as thick as you want

[@Jfriede82]

hey that's a good idea! I'm going to try that!

[@angellaulau1]

That number two was perfect before you went back. Also, how about trying to stop squeezing the tube. Don't blame the pen for thin batter! Blame the batter, duh!!

[@muhammadikram8480]

he uses this batter for a lot of recipes and its worked perfectly like in the perfect pancake pan review, and if he doesn't squeeze only a couple of drops would pour out, and since he had no control what so ever on the pen stability on how much batter to pour its not his fault at all,its the pens fault.

[@kadewalley4425]

Muhammad Ikram the consistency of the batter thickness however is his fault and he used a pre-made batter from a box

[@JennyDragon]

For those of you who want this to work, make your batter a little thicker, as well as mix it before pouring it in. A homemade thick mixture works perfectly for these things, as well as using a nice hot stove.

[@julietrae526]

Try a plain old squeeze bottle with a thinner tip for better accuracy and less frustration :)

[@edwardsrc7]

I'd like to understand how this is Jack's fault, as it's being claimed in other comments??? If he followed the directions on the batter box; as you can clearly HEAR him doing, it then becomes a matter of trial by error. Not his fault the pancake mix isn't as thick as some people like it to be.

[@racheljones2335]

Yes the batter itself is a problem as the pen is designed to work with a thicker batter than this one provides. The other issue that I noticed with his review verses others that I've watched is that he is holding it much too far up off of the surface, which allows the batter to drip more randomly than he would like, just as if you were to hold a fountain pen just barely on the surface, not providing any pressure or true guidance, the ink goes everywhere.

[@edwardsrc7]

Agreed.

[@lilrufus12]

when he pours the batter to make the number one you can hear him slightly say " awwww its too fuckin runny" hahahah love this show

[@trender543]

It's not the pen's fault it's runny, that's practically impossible

[@gwarguts]

You can do the same pancake pen thing with your sons gatorade bottle and just make it in the bowl

[@badbabe667]

I'm not going to blame you for this,or the product.I find the "pancakes in a box"are always runny,so I make my own batter.Of course it takes more work and more ingredients,but it's well worth it.Maybe with a true home made batter the pen will function the way it's supposed to.

[@trublockz4920]

No he used the wrong measuring utensils to measure his ingredients, he measured the dry mix with a liquid measuring cup when he should've used a dry measuring cup. Liquid always retains the shape of the container

[@Lunar_Ellipse]

I know someone who has this and they've never mixed their batter inside of the pen- they just pour in the batter after making it in a bowl and the pen writes fine, and there are no clumps.

[@fishmanc5357]

So I came to see if this would make a good fish tank filter container... I stayed to comment that his mix was simply too runny

[@bettygrandy3046]

Let the pancake mix rest for about 5 minutes in a warm spot, like on top of the refrigerator, it should thicken. Also, I always put more mix than the box calls for in the mix to water ratio. Best way to get pancake shapes in to make the pancakes large and then use cookie cutters to get the shapes you want.

[@Blurgle3]

Good pancake dispensers go for $50 up, but none of them recommend mixing the batter in the dispenser for just the reason you discovered. And anyway, to get good pancakes you should be using eggs, milk, flour (of some kind), and baking powder, not mix.

[@ScrollDown369]

you should have either reduced the water add to the dry ingredients or added more dry to the water... with pancake batter you dont have to have exact measurements. its about how you want the pancakes to turn out.. the product you reviewed does work. its the batter..

[@NickGBlack]

I don't want to put this video down more than it has already been put down but when it comes to pancakes the box directions always make a runny pancake. Instead eyeball it and make it thick, if it's still runny just add more pancake mix. Then it will work perfectly. Love your videos, its addictive.

[@nightrockerdj]

@Evaporatorification He bought it at Ross. Company didn't send him anything, you gotta pay more attention and quit being a hater, he has the right to express his opinion.

[@wupme]

@MooseOfReason those bottles (the ones you see in restaurants and such things, not the ones you actualyl buy ketchup in) are what we used for things like this in the kitchen. They are about 2-4 Bucks each and they last forever.

[@Rowlett54]

stir the panckae mix in a bowl, and put it in an old ketchup bottle.

[@BABYGIRL812316]

"It doesn't write real well." YOU don't write real well. YOU can't make batter. & YOU can't hold the damn thing right.

[@E63Isaiah]

And btw its you fault its not working it works you just dont know how to make batter smh always blaming the product for your mistakes

[@jooger69]

BiShockzz The same applies to a lot of his reviews like the soda stream for example. He messes up and blames the product.

[@E63Isaiah]

Yeah ive noticed that

[@jooger69]

But for some reason I still keep watching his videos.

[@Fray-Bentos]

BiShockzz "lets see if i can do a number"....*uses right hand when hes left handed*...."nope not very good"..... you dont say

[@E63Isaiah]

Lol ^

[@h3ll5w1nt3r]

I don't think it's the pancake pen's fault: it's the fact that the batter is extremely runny. I've never seen such watery pancake batter - even from a box....

[@anitalu8163]

You could use those ketchup squeeze bottles and also, try using a different recipe that makes to batter thick.

[@Golfy5746]

to everyone saying that it was jacks fault:If the idea of a product like this is supposed to be fun, useful, and a good idea, any random "Jack" should be able to use it easily and effectively. As for the batter, he CLEARLY showed how the device didn't mix the batter what so ever. as far as "PeterMMM" talks about it, what does the device claim to do other than mix, make pancakes and write? everything claimed was shown, and nothing worked. end of story.

[@QueenPNW]

Make your pancakes with milk not water. and make sure the batter is the right consitancy don't always just go by what the box says. The pen was not the reason for it being too runny

[@Lilliancooks]

I think it would work better with a thicker batter, thats mixed in a bowl, then poured into the pen! Thanks for doing the review!

[@cookingwithjackshow]

@TOXICFLOWZSHOW thanks. I will keep it going.

[@averyshenandoah1637]

I just made mine in a bowl and poured it in and made shapes. It’s fun with kids really! FYI if you haven’t made ricotta homemade pancakes you are missing out. I also use it for my waffles but u have yo make homemade and make it in a bowl first

[@MediEvilFan147]

it's nice to see at least one person is polite on youtube

[@cookingwithjackshow]

@frogoftoob I totally agree with you. I even thickened the batter the second time and it still failed

[@cookingwithjackshow]

@sk8erguy552 no. sorry. Not a tradition in my house. I will take a listen.

[@TheMaxCapeYT]

A tip: Buy a shaker for mixing workout supplements. The opening is a bit bigger, but it has a filter that should fix the mixing problem.

[@cookingwithjackshow]

@Msjanedoe124 The batter was made correctly according to the box. So your saying that millions of boxes around America are wrong. Wow. I should alert the media.

[@MysticKnight38]

maple syrup, you just want to make it a bit more runny. add the sticks and wait. taste till you get the flavour you like. From there you can try something like stuffed french toast (with peaches) and a spiced maple syrup this time with cloves. Trust me it works

[@wupme]

@josep3r3z if you measure solids by volume, then it doesn't matter. It only matters for Measuring cups when the solids are measured by weight (some measurement cups also have a scale for weight on them)

[@azntranc3951]

@MooseOfReason probably because the nozzle is much smaller than the Pancake Pen from the looks of it. I have a hunch that there's a rubber gasket in the Pancake Pen that controls how well the batter comes out (just like the rubber gasket on a bottle of Powerade drink).

[@lbbananamuffin]

I don't think that it was the product's fault that you batter was runny. The batter would have been runny even if it wasn't in the Pancake Pen.

[@starbucksmocha88]

Seems like it would be way easier to just make the batter as normal in a 4 cup measuring cup then pour it from the measuring cup into the pancake pen.

[@ronfriedman8690]

A couple of shortcomings of Jacks' review. First of all, if you insist on using out of the box mix, make sure the consistency is right. Jack's batches consistently were too runny. Secondly, a pancake recipe (from scratch available online) provides a rich recipe that will not run and works much better.

[@averyshenandoah1637]

I bought one it was cheap. It was so fun we made shapes etc. we didn’t need it but to be fair it was actually lots of fun. I make hearts for my husband sometimes for breakfast with strawberries.

[@0KittyGoesRawr0]

The bottle is a bit big for properly drawing. When I do shapes I use a chocolate melt bottle, it's a lot smaller and easier to control in the hand.

[@randyroo2]

quick tip to get powders into small holes get a sheet of a4 paper fold in half pour some powder onto it. then it should slide in easily. used to do this trick to get nesquik powder into milk.

[@kerenchadwick6535]

Yes it IS the 'pens' fault it should pour out as you want it to but it DID NOT for Jack so as you saw FAIL !!!!!!!:-/

[@macsrock105]

Definitely try homemade batter and not a store bought mix they are completely different from homemade and create a batter with a different consistency.

[@KaitlinBamaGirl]

I usually used homemade pancake batter but I mix it in my blender and then let it sit for about 10 minutes before I attempt to make the actual pancakes. This gives it time to develop and become a little stiffer. You should try that too.

[@Justanotherface143]

@babo1bear The point wasn't how "good" his letters came out.. he was never bummed or upset about that. He only talked about the product, and I believe that it was a fair representation. His main point was that the batter was far too runny, because it wasn't mixing well. And even when he pre-mixed it in the bowl, it still came out runny when he put it in the pancake pen. He's using it like anybody else would for the first time... he's just showing you his opinion.

[@jessicaperez365]

Thank you!! I have the pancake pen and it does it perfectly with my pancake batter

[@roundthewldin3clicks]

if you place the pancake mix in a coffee filter and then fold and slide it works great

[@baohuynh9529]

If you mixed the pancake batter separately, and it was still runny like that, I don't think you can mix pancake batter.

[@TheWikkedSikk]

It would probably help if it had one of those pressure squirter things, like the stopper in a Gatorade bottle. Doesn't open unless you suck on it, so it doesn't drip.

[@MasterFPunkt]

I think Jack was right. If you cannot mix the ingredients properly inside the pen, you need to use a regular bowl or something for mixing. Then, you could rather just pour directly from the bowl onto the pan and save yourself the cleaning of an extra piece of plastic.

[@keikoandgilly]

If I may interject, Jack. Have you tried using eggs in the mixture? that usually provides the thick texture you were going for.

[@OhKailey]

I've seen on Pinterest that a large Heinz Ketchup bottle works perfectly for pancakes, and you know that you can shake that without issues. Awesome review anyways! :)

[@drobberbaron]

The batter needs to be thicker to do what you want it to do.

[@therealbunnymix]

Don't always go by the box! Even with Bisquik. Box directions are always going to be runny. Add liquid to your liking. And don't try and mix the small lumps out they provide lift to the batter when cooked, or so I'm told.

[@andrewcullen8635]

Hello Your batter mix is to runny that is down to how you made it. I would have tried it pre-mixed with less water or even made from scratch then put into the container Andy C

[@ElGeecho]

@Msjanedoe124 That might be a fair point, except that he followed the pancake batter recipe. If you have to alter the recipe just to use the product properly, then that is a problem.

[@anitalu8163]

Hey Jak, i know one person that takes a ranch or salad dressing squeezing thing. So it works perfectly.

[@Veronor93]

this product deserves a new review! with a much thicker batter...

[@SillyFREAKout]

I don't understand why he didn't just make a pancake batter from a box and put it in there, usually those recipes are nice and thick

[@chasingpaper4863]

the batter you are supposed to use is krusteaz. I have the same product and it works great

[@sakura9949]

I think it's much cheaper to use an empty ketchup squeeze bottle and a funnel. But that's only if you are a messy cook. A ladle does the job just fine.

[@MrDRLM]

I dont understand why everyone is giving you a hard time... yes it was to thin but you made it to the proper directions but on the other hand you have cooked long enough were you should have been able to make a batter that was the right consistancy so this product should work.. but another decent review good job Jack!!

[@shorrrtshelby]

Did you guys like not listen to him at all? He made 2 batches of the batter, one in the pen and one in a different bowl. The one in the other bowl looked perfect, and not runny at all. Once he put it in the pen, it was too runny to control, so obviously its not him thats faulty, its the pen.

[@TheLeah999]

Your best bet is to get one of those sauce bottles and do shapes that way! The hole on that is too big hence why it just falls out!

[@Raphaelx2ily]

I don't think it's a fail. Hungry Jack is a thin pancake batter in general. I think you'd need a homemade pancake recipe. Also, I'd just go buy one of those squeeze bottle people use for ketchup & mustard. Mor precise bc the opening is smaller.

[@tojema]

lmao took the words right out of my mouth... then "let's see if i can write with it" *proceeds to make a crooked line and then squeeze unevenly* "ugh see??? this is terrible!"

[@TrailwaysOfNYDrivers]

You Know when Jacks Hungry when he uses something that has the name Jack on it lol

[@seafour100]

ive used it before and it is good, it is only bad because you made the batter too runny, and it depends on how steady your hand is. after 2 or three tries, i could draw pretty good numbers and stuff.

[@shorrrtshelby]

@nickmich1001 Actually, it is possible for the runny batter to be the products fault. Since it says you can make the batter in the actual bottle, it probably wont have the same effect as wisking the batter together in a separate bowl. So no, it doesnt have to be his fault.

[@Adelaide0984]

I am sure most of you who say " use common since" or "it works just fine for me" probably put more work into the product than it should take. These products are suppose to make things easy when in reality just makes you work harder. I am all about old fashion kitchen utensils and bowls.

[@elizabethfey6882]

not the best invention ever but your amazing jack I was about to buy that but thanks to you, have told us that it doesn't work well. thanks once again jack. you and your son amazing

[@supermigit999]

for cupcakes you can use a ice cream scoop and the cupcakes all come out pretty even

[@darcyhicks3634]

Jack have you tried streamlining the process by boiling it? Like the entire pen?

[@metamorfoggie]

Would't it be better to use a funnel to pour the powder?

[@DayummStrait]

Do not even try to blame the product for you not being able to pour powder into the "small" whole.

[@azntranc3951]

Unless the batter is VERY thick, then I don't think the Pancake Pen can 'write'. I bet most people were thinking that the Pancake Pen was capable of giving a constant stream of pancake batter. Problem is that when the stream hits the flat grilling surface, it immediately starts to pool or splatter elsewhere.

[@MsLeLaRiley89]

guys stop criticizing w/o giving Creative criticism: never use the pancake directions cause they come out watery as some1 who cooks a bunch in the kitchen you know directions is a baseline not written in stone and often need tweaking 2 preference.a sugestion on the squeezing: try holding the product with both hands ur dominate hand2 steady the product n the non dominate 1 up twards the middle or higher away from the nozzle so that you dont over squeeze causing a blob of product 2 come.

[@wupme]

@jakatak69 Actually, and this is true. Most companies make a product, like batter mix, for years, even decades. Formulas slightly change, product quality and sources change. And they still have the same directions on those products. By recent tests it was shown that approximately 80% of instructions on such products are actually not correct anymore (they might have been in the past) Temperatures, times, measurements. In most products at least one of those is wrong. Tested by trained chefs.

[@mintymilk5949]

It's called "use a funnel"

[@Max1996YT]

Jack was just trying to prove whether or not you can mix up the batter in the thing itself, like it claimed.

[@jessraat]

You spilled the powder, so you added too much water.

[@lauraclements2308]

Thank you for showing me about that I was wondering how it would work.

[@wupme]

@Aurorified you can't blame a product if it fails because another product you used with it failed. The batter failed, so the pen was unable to succeed, So we don't know if the pen works or if it doesn't work. So in fact, he did it wrong.