It's $15m in revenues, he would have made much less.
It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.
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#42Bjelkeman's (Swedish) pancakes/crepes, serves two: 3 eggs 6 dl milk 3 dl wheat flour 1 table spoon sugar 1 tea spoon salt 1/2 dl cooking oil (I use olive oil) 100 g butter If you cook electric, start warming the frying pans. I normally fry on 7 (out of 10). Mix the eggs. Add half the milk. Add the flour. Whisk together until smooth. Add the sugar, salt and remainder of the milk. Add the oil. Mix until the batter is s…
If you want to, you can add some carbonated water.
Re: It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.
#43It's $15m in revenues, he would have made much less.
Per year, with over 30% yearly growth. He could sell it for twice that.
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#44> US Patent Application US 2007/0286933 A1 Refrigerator Stable Baking Batter In various embodiments of the present invention, a bakable batter mixed using cold process conditions and provided in a pressurized can, can be used to bake a variety of food products. In various embodiments of the present invention, a bakable batter mixed under inert atmosphere conditions and... http://www.google.com/patents/download/11_760…
Interesting reading! I wasn't aware you'd include things like details of pathogen-contamination testing in a patent application. (Or compare the results with CO2 vs N2. That's a detail of genuine interest to anyone trying to make a related product outside the scope of the patent, or a similar product after the patent expires.) I think they've shown their work.
> That's a detail of genuine interest to anyone trying to make a related product outside the scope of the patent, or a similar product after the patent expires.
This is the very purpose of patents. To speed up innovation by forcing people to share their research in exchange for a limited monopoly. I find it both hilarious and scary that you find something special in this patent application.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Likely not. Just like we don't get/want spray cheese. All sounds a bit yuck to me. I get the powder stuff. You can buy it from Tesco. Comes in a bottle, which is about 1/4 full of powder. You can store in the cupboard for ages. When you want pancakes you just open the bottle, fill it up with fresh milk, shake for ages then start cooking. Really tasty as well.
I don't think anybody wants spray cheese...
Slightly off topic now, but I really don't understand how a nation like the US eats so much cheese, yet simply cannot make cheese :/ It's horrible depressing tasteless mush.
I wonder if there's a specific reason you can't get real cheese in the US.
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#46Apologies, but the mobile version of the story that is linked to here got me so frustrated I almost threw my mouse across the room. Can't highlight text, can't copy text as a result, and the article itself looks like garbage. Here's a (better) link to the original article: http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/23/smallbusiness/batter_blaster...
Sounds like a browser issue. I can select and copy and whatever text just fine with Opera. All you miss is the image of the guy.
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#47Apologies, but the mobile version of the story that is linked to here got me so frustrated I almost threw my mouse across the room. Can't highlight text, can't copy text as a result, and the article itself looks like garbage. Here's a (better) link to the original article: http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/23/smallbusiness/batter_blaster...
Not sure why aw3c2's comment got killed - I've been seeing this sometimes and I wonder if the autokill isn't a bit too strong.
But indeed, you can highlight and everything just fine in Opera.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think anybody wants spray cheese...
Slightly off topic now, but I really don't understand how a nation like the US eats so much cheese, yet simply cannot make cheese :/ It's horrible depressing tasteless mush. I wonder if there's a specific reason you can't get real cheese in the US.
the uk seems to be particularly good at cheese (disclaimer - i am an englishman). it is something you don't appreciate til you leave (here in chile the only decent cheese i could find to have with my christmas cake was an argentinian parmesan!).
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#49I wish I could take the guy who came up with the headline to task! We've had a headline homicide... 1) "it is pancakes" isn't a sentence (ambiguous in the extreme). 2) The words "[it is] pancakes" are incompatible because "are" is the plural equivalent of "is". 3) "in a can" is not a sentence (lack of a subject & verb). 4) "it's made" is "it is made" not the "it has made" it should be. (It's as "it has" is not an off…
A more appropriate headline might have been "Pancakes in a can have grossed $15million this year".
The headline as it stands is trying to add some extra texture. "It's pancakes." - ie just pancakes, nothing fancy, nothing luxurious (though we have pancakes as a treat) they're just pancakes. I also find this to be a hint to a template of a salesmans patter. "In a can." - this evokes a staccato presentation on a TV shopping channel IMO and emphasises that all they did differently with their basic pancake batter was stick it in a can (even if that's not strictly true). "It's made $15 million." - the short sentence echoes the others and adds a little incredulity.
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#50Something is wrong with a society that needs shortcuts to make pancake batter. It takes less than 5 minutes --- and even less time if you take just a few minutes to premix the dry ingredients ahead of time. I 100% believe this product adds value to people's lives, but I'm also pretty confident that that's because people are terrified to learn how to cook.
Time is money. The fact that this man came up with a product that customers want doesn't mean "Something is wrong with a society". I bike to work, if I used your logic I would think: "Something is wrong with a society" because most people drive to work. But I don't think this. I realize context matters and again; time is money. . It frustrates me when people insult others ideas because the idea is successful but it i…
Nobody's insulted anyone here.