11/4/2023 0 Comments Risen 1 severinThe tools that came with the Severin crepe maker are useless and the fact they are made from untreated wood puts me off using them. ![]() Saying that, it would be handy, if you had the storage space, to have a non-stick surface dedicated solely to crepes and pancakes. It retails at £28 from Home Spares, and to be honest I think it would be money better spent if you invested in a decent non-stick pan you could use for other things. It’s made from plastic, and like the Severin dehydrator I reviewed yesterday it feels rather flimsy and of poor quality. I thought I’d try out the crepe maker with our favourite pancake recipe, and like my husband I was impressed by how non-stick the cooking surface was, and that I could make giant pancakes to fill an entire plate like my Mum used to, I was not particularly enamored with the machine as a whole. ![]() It’s not like a traditional pan where you can just pick it up and swirl the batter to the size you want. More practice, perhaps, would make this easier. His verdict was that although the size of the non-stick surface was quite handy, it was a bit fiddly to use the smoothing tool to get the crepe batter all the way to the edges. My husband tried out this Severin crepe maker first, making the children some crepes for their dinner while I was out one evening. The Severin crepe maker comes with the base unit and an untreated wooden ‘flip-over tool’ (their words, not mine) and two bits of untreated dowel rod stuck together to form a ‘smoothing tool’. It’ll take a few more years practice, I think! I’m afraid my attempts this morning at making pancakes for the kids’ after school snack with the same skills were sadly lacking. ![]() The SWRI volunteer in the kitchen was making little silver dollar sized pancakes with utter skill and perfection. I had first learned about these stand alone crepe/pancake makers when I stopped in for a Sunday Tea at a local village kirk last summer (pictured above). This is still my favourite pancake recipe, except when I’m looking for something a bit lower in calories and higher in protein and I make my cottage cheese crepes. I had a newborn son when this book came out and I was trying to learn how to cook properly. So, to test out the Severin crepe maker I went with our standard go-to pancake recipe – Nigella Lawson’s American Breakfast Pancakes, as found in her book How to be a Domestic Goddess (2000) – one of the very first cookbooks I ever bought.
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