Bought a few makers today for my daughter as they were all half price. There was no sign however did all scan at half price. We were at Southport Gold Coast - I assume it is the same at other stores. They are clearing stock as apparently these are christmas items
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People who like to make cupcakes, pies without an oven,and have a chocolate fondue fountain now and then.
ok do u have kids? I never real seen point behind them pies and cupcakes i can make them in the oven and popcorn in microwave. I do some do fondue cheese but that most went we go out. my old boss had full set for grand kids she used to bring them into work make stuff for the staff. what the point?
Nope, single guy. I think its more convenient to use the cupcake maker because you don't have to clean the whole oven, clean the trays, use 2KW of power whilst you can do the same thing the cupcake maker in 3 mins to have the same 6 cupcakes with less power (800W).
Microwave popcorn = fat & salt!
Air popped = healthy! :)
i used brown paper bag and popcorn.
sweet
You must be making some serious cupcakes if you have to clean the oven after a baking session haha
lol.
baking tray maybe? never got a thing on the oven to clean.
I agree with nikey2k27, I pop my popcorn in a brown paper bag for 1 1/2 - 2 mins depending on amount. No oil or butter (or even seasoning) needed.
Hmm, I might have to start buying more booze to get more brown paper bags from the bottle-O then…
o.o Most people bake 24 cupcakes at a time. That is one box of cake mix.
So probably not a bargain. Unless you don't have a fan forced oven.
The cupcake maker bakes all around right?
Edit: Actually it only cooks from the bottom upwards according to most reviews so you don't get the quality, but you hide it with the icing.
This Kmart cupcake maker DOES bake on the top too and it browns the top as well as the bottom. I bet you can't make those 24 cupcakes in 3 minutes!
I'd say a chap who can bang out half a dozen cupcakes in mere minutes won't stay single for long. Ladies?
maybe 'slightly healthier' but popcorn is certainly not 'healthy' in any way shape or form…
@tulkn,
Seriously dude, I think you might wanna slow down on the post-Xmas spirit. http://www.popcorn.org/NutritionRecipes/NutritionYou/Nutriti…
I only get 12 cupcakes to a box of cake mix. I'm being cheated out of 12 cupcakes!
:(
Lazy people (AKA me)
Who buy this stuff indeed.
mate i am with u?
people who cant make pies, crepes properly ?
i was at my local Kmart today and they had 700g roasted nuts for only $2.25, bought 3 tubs.. good for drinking beer and watching tv. they also had honey roasted and vanilla flavoured roasted nuts.
sorry to hijack this thread, i did see these on sale at the Kmart i was at, everything is 50% off the marked price, mainly xmas stuffs.
i got nuts yesterday to. they are nice for price.
At that price, I don't reckon they'd last very long.
I bought the poffertjes maker at $12. Worked well.
Great for takoyaki too! ;)
nice idea!
you almost convinced me to get one :) If only I don't have to go search for the Japanese ingredients…..
I found a recipe once (using the googlenets) that substituted western ingredients for many of the Japanese ones. The taste was surprisingly very close IIRC. Now, many mainstream supermarkets also have enough asian stuff to fudge it too! :)
I found it too shallow for a takoyaki and went for the muffin maker instead
Any idea, if i can use this for takoyaki ?
http://shop.target.com.au/p/cake-pop-maker-mlccm815p/P522533…
@moolah, I haven't been close up with the Kmart version, but my Target one actually has an Octopus stamped into the hotplate…suggesting that it has actually been repurposed as a poffterje maker! ;)
@gandhi, I can't see why not…maybe the top plate will make cooking them easier; but myself & every takoyaki maker I've ever seen just flip them with bamboo skewers.
The takoyaki/dutch pancake makers with that weird octopus cartoon moulded on them were also sold at bigw last year around xmas for 7 dollars; i got one myself. :-) But unfortunately the Kmart ones come with a thinner depth plate.
Extended use of that metal touching your food will give you cancer :)
These day's extended breathing tends to cause cancer :P
Higher chance of cancer *
Do they have ice maker
i like sound of that.
No but they have reusable ice cubes.
My local KMart in Noarlunga, SA was getting rid of all Christmas stock at 50% off today. Nothing special about that, but they also discounted all their boxed chocolates and biscuits by 50% too. The Belgian KMart brand seashells and assorted chocolates are actually quite good and at $7.50 for 1kg are a steal (take off another 5% with ING, hehe). I also picked up a few boxes of German Lambertz biscuits. All have a best before date around late next year.
Ahhh so many people asking "who buys this stuff". If youve ever used one of those pie makers you wouldnt be asking. They are bloody amazing. So easy to use, clean, so fast. Ours makes 4 at a time, we dont make pies the traditional way anymore because of how good the pie maker is.
These items are rubbish. They are cheap for a reason and a lot of them get returned. You get what you pay for.
which one have you tried?
None, I would wager!
"You get what you pay for" is the trite catch-cry of the wannabe OzB snob IME.
I used to work there so i think i would know about the "quality".
So the answer to the question "which one have you tried?" is still NONE, I take it…
I used to work there…
Big ups for having once worked at Kmart bro!
so i think i would know…
Exactly, you only think you would know…thanks for playing! ;)
So i see more than ten returned daily and i don't know if they're good? wow, enjoy your crappy $6 item just make sure to keep the receipt. I don't see why you have to be all up-in-arms to try and justify these items as good. Thanks for playing.
wow, enjoy your crappy $6 item just make sure to keep the receipt.
No problem, thanks for your professional advice…good thing we never had to call the waaahmbulance! :p
It always comes back to the same issue when you talk about returns to places with generous exchange/return policies. Are you saying these items came back as non-functioning, change of mind, returned gifts, what? I guess if large numbers are returned for whatever reason it doesn't bode well for the usability/quality combination but it is misleading to suggest that returned items don't work. If you are talking solely returned as non-functioning then that would be a very useful statistic that you (as a former employee) could quote with confidence.
Agreed, 'why' is always a great question to ask!
Also, just saying he saw ten/day is a useless number in-and-of itself without knowing how many were actually sold…if they sold 20 it's not so encouraging if the returns were failures, but if they'd sold 1000 then 10 total returned is pissing in the wind IMHO.
Many of these guys don't know the difference between a number & a statistic…
I've got the Dutch Pancake Maker, Muffin Maker & Crepe Maker and all of them work absolutely fine. So I don't know what you're on about…
Do you know if it includes Dutch Pancake maker too? Bought one for $20 some weeks ago, was really crap quality, thinking to return it since still under warranty.
i believe it does. saw them stacked up in the same pile as well.
Yep, I got one for $6 today
OP said he bought a few for his daughter…
I just hope she has a decent size kitchen, otherwise they'll all end up at the back of some cupboard like ours!!!
Ps. The reason I buy pies, donuts & popcorn from the shop!
The popcorn popper might be worth a try as a coffee roaster; worst case scenario it has a temperature trip that needs to be by-passed.
If you've never roasted your own coffee, you have no idea what you're missing.
could you just use a fry pan instead?
A good question, and yes you could, however even the cheapest and nastiest popcorn popper will roast more evenly, remove the chaff from the green beans, and blow the smoke away (you can use it with an extension lead outdoors) and not set the kitchen alarms off.
Roasting coffee makes quite a bit of smoke and mess, too much for a range hood to handle. Using the popper will give a much better result than the pan in many ways.
Popcorn poppers can be used to roast coffee but as it takes around 20 mins to do a roast you will exceed the recommended maximum operating time. That can get very dangerous.
Don't buy these crappy things. They break easy and end up in landfill!
Umm, yeah the end of the world is nigh…
My $15 toaster has lasted for 10 years; my $60 one, bought before the cheap one, lasted a year and a half. Price does not necessarily equate to durability.
Agreed… Our expensive car keeps costing a lot more on servicing and repairing than what our cheap car does!
I don't know if it may be attributed to the fact that it gets used 5 times as much? ;)
Maybe you're right. It probably comes down to how you use it and clean it afterwards etc.
My cheapy toasted-sandwich maker's handle broke in one week, maybe because I put too much fillings in!
I used my pie maker until it died of old age …I used to make up a big batch of savory mince with mixed veggies ..the buy the bonus size packet of pastry and bingo cheap healthy pies in the freezer …yes they are smaller than a normal pie so eat 2 …..I have no idea what the cost of a meat pie from the shop is . but I recon the pie maker is cheaper than buying 2 normal pies
Damn you, now I want a pie…
the pie makers are good for making quick school lunches, savoury and sweet.
does anyone know if this is at all kmart stores? I'm in melbourne? thanks
Australia wide, so far.
The size of the donuts, and muffins is a joke surely?
Yep we are in Melbourne and got a pie maker & donut maker from plenty valley about 2 hours ago for $6 each
Also on sale are other items in the homewares area with the same branding - the Galileo Thermometer and Newton's Cradle were also half price
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wzEmM8W…
Thanks picked up a pie maker this arvo.
They sure are popular - had to go to 2 Kmart stores to get one and it was the last one!
Plenty of muffin makers, donut makers etc left though.
Any sightings on a ice cream maker?
Try this deal: http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/89484
I saw that they had a few ice cream makers in their $10 shipping cap deals…
Thanks StewBalls!
Picked up:
Dutch pancake maker $6
Hotdog maker $9.50
Didn't have time to look for other stuff :(
At Knox today they were scanning up as $3 each, still quite a few items there
Yep so were they at burwood 24/7 kmart in vic. But their sign said $6, scanned at $3. I couldnt resist so i picked up a donut maker, they had many of those left and a few cupcake makers.
whaaaaaat? I bought mine from there at $6 :(
P.S. Did they have the dutch pancake makers at burwood vic? I didn't see any but I may have been blind.
Not any i could see this afternoon and i went through the xmas and kitchen department shelves 10 times. :-D
Bear in mind, at $3 they'll only be half as reliable as the $6 ones… :p
=), they might even be $1.50 tomorrow if they half their prices each day.
They were $3 each on Sunday and Monday at a number of Sydney Kmarts for most of the range as well ($5 for the Hot Dog maker)
Which sydney stores have stock? Bondi jnct didnt have any
Just went by bankstown, they have 2 pie makers at $3 left on the shelf.
Not any more. Said they've sold out. Anyone know of any Sydney stores that still have stock of anything?
nikey2k27 on 27/12/2012 - 22:12 Comment score below threshold.