Friday Review - Flower Egg or Pancake Shaper!

Mike is sick today, so no bento. Instead, I made a "flower egg" for breakfast and took pictures so you can see how this product works! I'm apologizing in advance if the pictures seem poor; I couldn't really spruce them up since our laptop decided to go to laptop heaven. Hopefully we'll have a new one by the end of this weekend.

Today's review is on these silicone egg or pancake shapers. They come in lots of different shapes but we have a car and a flower. Silicone can handle heat up to 500 degrees and is easily washable, durable, and flexible. So these tend to be a little more forgiving then the metal shapers, especially if your pan isn't perfectly flat or is non-stick and you don't want to accidentally scrape it.

The little straight part coming off the side is the "handle," but luckily silicone doesn't really get too hot, so you can touch it even in the pan. This is another advantage of silicone over metal.

So the first and most important step is to oil your silicone shaper! I forgot to do this. Whoops. You'll see that you can still make a good shaped egg, it's just a little more delicate...anyways, oil your shaper lightly and then heat up your pan a little.

Put your shaper into the pan and crack an egg into it.

The silicone egg shapers are made for medium sized eggs - but most American eggs are large or jumbo! The sides aren't very high and a big egg will spill over. You can crack your eggs into a measuring cup and then just pour what you need into the shaper. I used our backyard chicken eggs, which are small  and very firm, so I actually had to help this guy spread out a bit.

I like to flip my eggs, so I waited a bit and then flipped the whole thing over. After about 30 seconds or so, I turned off the heat and peeled off the silicone shaper, very carefully.

If you oiled yours, this part will be a lot easier and it should just lift off!

And then I peeled off the silicone edge, very carefully. If you oiled yours, this part will be a lot easier and it should just lift off!

This is when I flipped it back again. Then I plated it and ate it. Yum!

I imagine if you want to make pancakes, you can follow the same instructions, but using pancake batter. Don't forget that pancake batter puffs a little, so don't pour too much!