As Seen On TV: The Rollie Sausage Pancake
It’s Wednesday and that means for the month of September you’ll be seeing my adventures in the world of As Seen on TV. I purchased a Rollie a couple of months ago and you can meet and learn all about him here.
I decided to break in my Rollie by making one of the things suggested in their enclosed recipe booklet: the sausage pancake. A delectable sausage encased in perfectly cooked pancake using vertical cooking technology.
I started out with Tofurky sausage links and a box of Bisquick. I quickly whipped up a vegan version of the pancake recipe on the back of the Bisquick box. Then I skewered one of the Tofurky links and placed it in the Rollie.
Once in, you simply pour in some pancake batter and wait for the magic to happen. It’s a bit difficult to get a good pour into the vertical cooking chamber with the skewer coming out, but I wiped away the excess and then waited and watched. Within a couple of minutes the batter began to rise as promised in the Rollie video.
Unfortunately my batter was rising right out of the vertical cooking chamber, which meant it was not going to cook. I quickly scooped out what I could with a spoon. One of the keys to a successful Rollie is to not overfill the vertical cooking chamber. The cookbook recommends using 1/4 cup of batter, and though that seems slight, when combined with the volume of the sausage it will indeed be enough.
The pancake sausage did not rise out of the Rollie as seen on tv, so I set a timer for roughly 8 minutes and then pulled it out when it seemed ready. Ta-da!
A lightly browned pancake sausage rollie emerged intact. I ate it with a touch of maple syrup for dipping. Was this the best breakfast I have ever eaten? It was not. But I think some adjustments to the basic Bisquick batter would take it up a notch or two. I would use more spray oil next time, and leave it in for a bit longer to try get a better brown on the pancake exterior. But I am happy to have my first Rollie success and look forward to next week’s experiment.
That’s amazing, and weird, and awesome all at the same time.
That looks more appetizing than I was expecting.
Happy Vegan MoFo to ya!!! Great place you have here! This recipe idea is genius! WOW! Neat!!!!!
Amazing, I have never heard of such a gadget but now I am 100% sure that I need one!
This just made my morning.
That is incredible. I would probably buy that, and use that at least once. I’m intrigued.
Smiling. That’s just crazy enough to be cool. And, I’m just crazy enough to kinda want one of those things.
I can’t decide if I’m more weirded out or intrigued by this thing. But ,hey, pancakes and sausage!
That makes two of us.
Ha, your TV wins. And the Rolie! Also, the return of the MoFo Bisquick!
There will be more Bisquick! We keep it fun this month.
yessssss!!!!!!
Hah. It is, like, entirely insane that this invention even exists. But kind of Awesome. “Lol”-ing at vertical cooking chamber madness.
Your Rollie posts are one of the top things I’m looking forward to this Vegan MoFo! It’s so strange and yet totally compelling.
Wow. Thank you for introducing me to this product. That infomercial was amazing.
This is so excellent!! Musty bought me an “as seen on tv” gadget for Xmas that you can use to make giant stuffed burger patties. I still haven’t tried it. I think I will be inspired by you and try it during mofo!!
do it!!
Half of me–more than half–thinks this thing is what’s wrong with the world. Like, list all of the world’s problems…see Rollie. But part of me really wants one or at least wishes my mom had one so I could make a sausage in a pancake every 2 or 3 years, because right now, I can’t make a sausage in a pancake.
It’s like a . . . breakfast corndog?
Except not crispy.
I forgot that Bisquick is vegan. My mum just ordered a big box from a USA Foods shop and it is currently residing in my pantry. I don’t have a Rollie though.
If I did have a Rollie, I would eat pancake sausages smothered in maple syrup while wearing my towel bib.
wait, the food tube doesn’t really rise from the chamber? that’s, like, 84% of the appeal! i was promised maple-y sweet jesus! UNACCEPTABLE *flips table*
Stay tuned this month as I do more experiments.
This looks slightly alarming, and yet delicious. Please come visit Nola, and bring your Rollie.
Perhaps a Vida Vegan 2015 demo table.
Now i’m going to buy a Rollie.