Read First Before Buy Smart Planet CDM 1 Corn Maker
I have a husband, a 16 yo daughter and a 10 year old son and we just cooked our first meal with the Corn Dog Maker. We loved it. The booklet recommended that we grease the surface but it was so non stick we did not do that after the first batch. We could see the hotdogs in our first batch but none of us cared and by filling it less full, subsequent batches had the batter around the hot dog. Yes, sometimes they did not brown as much on top because we had it less full but in all cases they were fully cooked and tasted great. We just used Jiffy corn bread mix for the corn dogs and we also used it to to make pickles. We used spears. Just like other reviewers said, this does not make full size corn dogs...they are 1/2 dog each. We used Hebrew brand reduced fat dogs...and they were perfect to cut in half. We used regular pickle spears and had to cut an inch off. I am very excited to try another batter as well as make pancake/sausage on a stick. We are trying to have variety and eat healthy as a family and while I hate gimmicks, I LOVED THIS! We liked the mini donut maker (the kids more than I) but they make donuts that do not taste like real donuts. The corn dogs though were more similar in taste to a real corn dog...and I prefer them more as they are nongreasy. The recipe book only has a recipe for cornbread batter as well as a way to make a batter with a mix...but you will only be limited by your imagination. For dieters, use leftover corn bread mix to make mini corn bread sticks. Make mini cakes. They say you could bake a snickers in something...I don't know how that would work size wise. I can easily see making cheese sticks though...and I will think of more things to do with this...
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We just got this and within minutes had to test it out. It worked perfectly and is so quick and easy to use! I personally didn't care for the first batter recipe (haven't tried the second one yet). It was good so long as there was hot dog in with every bite, but at the end where I had just dough left, it's not tasty on it's own, but that's no big deal, it's easy enough to change the recipe or use a different recipe all together. I made the first batch without even using the sticks. This will thrill my daughter who loves corn dogs, but isn't a fan of the stick getting in her way of eating it. I'm so excited to try other things with it too. I have so many ideas of what can be made with this fun gadget. I had some crescent dough in the fridge and wrapped a piece around a cheese stick and cooked that up- it turned out perfectly cooked, a bit bland it needed some seasoning or a different type of dough, but you can see the possibilities. You can take any dough or batter and add something to it. Pancake/Sausage dogs, stuffed pizza sticks, put sliced apples in a sweet batter and make a kind of apple fritter on a stick. I have a beer bread recipe, and I think that would be great coating for cheese stuffed jalapenos. You could even just use cake, muffin or pancake batter and make some interesting shaped breakfast or dessert items. I have not tried this yet, but I have an idea for S'mores on a stick, use a sweet batter (like pancake, or maybe someone has an idea how to make batter that tastes like graham crackers) place several mini marshmallows on the stick, place it on the batter in the corn dog maker, sprinkle with chocolate chips, and top off with batter close and let cook. Yum.
BalasHapusI plan to use this for the coming school year to make homemade grab and go breakfast items (like sausage on a stick). I make a bunch up, freeze em, and my husband and daughter can just pop them in the microwave and head off to school. I can make them cheaper and healthier than the store bought ones.
update on the S'more dogs. First attempt at these FAIL. They tasted great, but made a mess. The marshmallow and chocolate melted before the dough could even cook. I'm going to change a few things and try it again. First do not use regular marshmallows cut in half, they are still too big. I was excited to make these, and this is what I had on hand. Next time I will use the mini marshmallows and freeze them on the stick before cooking- This should give the batter enough time to set before the marshmallow melts. While I had chocolate chips, I also had a Hersey bar. This works perfect. Break the bar into individual pieces, and two get laid down end to end. One bar has enough pieces to fill all 6 molds. Also be careful that you do not overfill the bottom with batter. Put enough in lay down the chocolate(which would also be ideal to freeze before cooking) lay a marshmallow skewer on top of that and cover with enough batter that does not leave any chocolate or marshmallow exposed. I was a little sloppy in my process, and made a big mess. The machine cleaned up fairly easily, but I think freezing the marshmallow and chocolate before cooking is the key to having the batter set before everything starts melting. For the batter I used the included batter recipe in the book but made some changes. I used 3/4 cup white flour in pace of (instead of) of the 1/4 cup corn meal and 1/2 cup wheat flour. I upped the sugar and used two TBS Brown sugar instead of plain and 1 TBS honey. When they are done cooking use a spatula to remove from machine. Do not attempt to pick them up by the stick until they have cooled for a few minutes, otherwise they just fall apart.
This thing is awesome. My boyfriend and I are vegetarians, but we love corndogs. So for the past two years we had been making them in the oven (with veggie dogs), ghetto style, which produced a delicious but bizarre, pancake-looking dog that pretty much required a fork to eat. Then one day we stumbled upon this little baby, the Corndog-O-Rama 3000. Now we make perfect looking veggie corndogs, AND incredible pickle-dogs, an idea we borrowed from a local burger joint. They call 'em Pickle Fries, but its basically just a corndog with a pickle instead of a hot dog. And its amazing. Just know the molds are a little short, so it's recommended that you cut the hotdogs in half. Works great, I love it!
BalasHapusNow that Morningstar has ceased making their veggie corndogs, I was desperate to find something to substitute. My daughters school serves corn dogs a lot and I try to match her menu with similar veggie items. This is perfect. I use veggie dogs instead of hotdogs and then follow the recipe for the batter. She loves them and actually I think they are better than the morningstar ones. plus, I like controlling the ingrediants to reduce sodium and other bad things. I don't feel bad about serving her these between the healthy veggie dog and the baked not fried batter. It took me a few turns to get the batter and dog placement exactly right. And as another review said, you have to cut any dog because they don't fit in the wells, but I did what he did and just used the ends of the veggie dogs to make my last corn dog.
BalasHapusI always buy the teenage boys a fun cooking appliance for Christmas. This is more fun than we could have imagined. We have finally made corn dogs with it. I love to use it to make the morning muffins. It is faster than my toaster oven. I don't even have to dirty a muffin pan. Corn muffins, cheese muffins, blueberry muffins, sausage in the muffins and yes, finally, corn dogs. Love it. Thumbs up from the boys, awesome!
BalasHapusI have a husband, a 16 yo daughter and a 10 year old son and we just cooked our first meal with the Corn Dog Maker. We loved it. The booklet recommended that we grease the surface but it was so non stick we did not do that after the first batch. We could see the hotdogs in our first batch but none of us cared and by filling it less full, subsequent batches had the batter around the hot dog. Yes, sometimes they did not brown as much on top because we had it less full but in all cases they were fully cooked and tasted great. We just used Jiffy corn bread mix for the corn dogs and we also used it to to make pickles. We used spears. Just like other reviewers said, this does not make full size corn dogs...they are 1/2 dog each. We used Hebrew brand reduced fat dogs...and they were perfect to cut in half. We used regular pickle spears and had to cut an inch off. I am very excited to try another batter as well as make pancake/sausage on a stick. We are trying to have variety and eat healthy as a family and while I hate gimmicks, I LOVED THIS! We liked the mini donut maker (the kids more than I) but they make donuts that do not taste like real donuts. The corn dogs though were more similar in taste to a real corn dog...and I prefer them more as they are nongreasy. The recipe book only has a recipe for cornbread batter as well as a way to make a batter with a mix...but you will only be limited by your imagination. For dieters, use leftover corn bread mix to make mini corn bread sticks. Make mini cakes. They say you could bake a snickers in something...I don't know how that would work size wise. I can easily see making cheese sticks though...and I will think of more things to do with this...
BalasHapusRead the reviews, bought it, used it the day it arrived.
BalasHapusFat free Hebrew National, standard corn bread mix. Amazing results.
So far it appears that the 2 middle sections cook most evenly, so I cooked most of the large batch in those.
The others work fine, but I opted to turn them over to brown evenly all over.
This thing is going to make crazy delish stuffed jalapenos. I'm buying some to try it out tomorrow.
Oh, the possibilities.
I may try cream cheese filled, but using Lowcal Laughing Cow cheese which won't bubble out and burn.
Hmmm... maybe chili filled... I'd just freeze up some weenie sized chili sticks.
Oh this is awesome!!!!
Update: today I used the pepper jack sticks, cut in half, instead of weenies. Amazing!!!
The cheese did not leak out or anything.
Today I froze some cream corn 'fingers' and some chili 'fingers using sandwich bags. I just sprayed the inside of the bag and spooned in some filling along the bottom crease to about the diameter of the weenie. I plan to cut that in half and make chili stuffed cornbread shells.
I'll let you know how it goes!!!
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