Comments on: So, you like the brownie edge, eh?

So, you like the brownie edge, eh?

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:48:32 -0800

Heck of an edge, brownie! The perfect tool for making sure all your brownies have edges.

By: portisfreak

portisfreak — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:53:01 -0800

I want!

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:53:26 -0800

Pepsi br... wait, do you have brownies?

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:59:49 -0800

Now they just have to make one in the shape of a marijuana leaf, and they'd be sitting on a goldmine.

By: YamwotIam

YamwotIam — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:03:25 -0800

A review on the site says it's good for lasagna too. I'll take twelve please.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:03:26 -0800

Edgy.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:04:13 -0800

god damn people. brownies. with edges. think of the ramifications.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:04:20 -0800

Now you can OD and not worry about soft edges!

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:06:13 -0800

No, no, no! This is like selling a special condom just for masturbation. Who wants the tough, crunchy edge of the brownies? You want the soft, gooelicious middle. If they could make a pan with no edges, then they'd be talking.

By: peep

peep — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:10:40 -0800

Yes, Methylviolet! Where is my no-edge pan?? And for god's sake, no butt pieces. Corners: brownie blasphemy. Now, if someone would make, like, an all edge Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, I would be all over that.

By: pupdog

pupdog — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:10:43 -0800

No, no, no! This is like selling a special condom just for masturbation. Who wants the tough, crunchy edge of the brownies? You want the soft, gooelicious middle. If they could make a pan with no edges, then they'd be talking. That's just crazy talk. Plus, it's the differences in texture that make it worthwhile.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:12:26 -0800

Methylviolet is wise beyond her years. She of the edgeless pan. She of the soft gooelicious middle.

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:14:28 -0800

Blond brownies to Paris H.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:27:07 -0800

Q: You like brownies? You are a person who likes the brownies that we are currently eating? A: Yes! I like brownies! Q: You like brownies! In fact, you are a person who likes brownies as much as a prostitute likes sex! A: YES I LIKE BROWNIES AS IF IT WERE MY PROFESSION!! TELL ME MORE ABOUT IT Q: YOU ENJOY THIS BROWNIE YOU SEXY SEX PERSON

By: twiggy

twiggy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:42:44 -0800

On one hand: I love the idea, and want one very much. On the other hand: A one link post to a product that is for sale? Seems spamtastic to me... hmm.

By: jbickers

jbickers — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:47:20 -0800

Growing up, all of our Brownies had edges. Big, hard, sharp, bitching edges. They would cut you if you screwed with them. It was the Weeblo scouts that were a little bit soft.

By: mkb

mkb — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:48:26 -0800

On the other hand: A one link post to a product that is for sale? Seems spamtastic to me... hmm. M. Blatcher is probably a reader of the SVN blog from 37signals.

By: darksasami

darksasami — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:56:10 -0800

This is so awesome. Now, instead of fighting over the precious corner pieces, we can fight over the even more precious three-edged pieces!

By: pruner

pruner — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:02:09 -0800

The link text made me LOL. *eats another magic brownie*

By: pantsonfire

pantsonfire — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:04:11 -0800

It's custom-molded to fit my intestines. Now to invent the gullet speculum to process such a log.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:15:03 -0800

I'm sorry but someone could do fpp one link to a PHOTO of a brownie and I wouldn't flag it. 'Cuz... I mean... BROWNIES. ARE. MY. FAVORITE. mmmmmmmm. Hypnotastic chocolate goodness. So weak. So very very weak.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:22:37 -0800

Pepsi br... Pepsi, uh, brue?

By: darkstar

darkstar — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:59:43 -0800

Methylviolet is right! The edges suxxorz. I like the gooey middle pieces. Hmm...if you could bake brownies on the surface of a sphere, you'd have no edges! *runs off to patent the baking sphere*

By: doublesix

doublesix — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:09:28 -0800

I'll take "Why Early 21st Century Western Civilization is Doomed" for $1000, Alex.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:36:21 -0800

Recipes, please! Think of the brownies. Pans are worthless without recipes. The world is full of mediocre brownie recipes. I need good ones. Nothing too soft or too hard. The quality of edgy brownies is dependant on the recipe. With some, they are truly wonderful. With others, the middle is far preferable. Are brownies better with, or without, nuts? I'm especially fond of walnuts myself, but currently live where pecans are cheap and walnuts expensive. I know some prefer nutless brownies.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:39:39 -0800

All edge-pieces? Shit, what's next? A loaf of bread consisting entirely of end-pieces? Bleargh.

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:59:13 -0800

All edge-pieces? Shit, what's next? A loaf of bread consisting entirely of end-pieces? Shortest. Loaf. Evar. Are brownies better with, or without, nuts? I made coconut-pecan-caramel brownies from scratch last week. GoddamsogoodIcanfeelmyteethrottingstill.

By: agentofselection

agentofselection — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:30:15 -0800

If you really, really like edges, couldn't you just bake your brownies in a muffin tray? Converseley, you could reduce edge:area ratio by baking in a large, round pan. Why bother with the extra cookware? Now if you can get on that spherical pan...(I'm thinking two concentric spheres now, with brownies and hot air between the two spheres, and a tiny black hole or piece of neutronium held centered in the inner sphere to keep the batter plastered around the outside of the inner sphere. Also a heat source within the inner sphere, and then you put the whole thing in the oven to heat from the outside as well. Okay, perhaps this engineering problem could be better solved by baking brownies in a big pan and cutting off the edges... but cheaper or not, I don't think I could waste brownie.) ...*goes off to make brownies*

By: billyfleetwood

billyfleetwood — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:35:26 -0800

I'm disappointed in the human race. I find it hard to believe that in the timeline of human intellect and discovery, this comes AFTER electricity, air travel, the Hubble telescope, Grand Theft Auto:Vice City, and CIA Mind control technology. And I'm not even being that sarcastic. I almost ashamed of my immediate reflex to figure out the geometry required to have a pan full of 3-edged brownies. Only because I should have started working on that problem as a young child, immediately after having my first brownie.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:40:43 -0800

www.edgeandmiddlebrownieswap.com?

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:31:05 -0800

Ad.

By: imperium

imperium — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:05:10 -0800

via?

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:17:17 -0800

Brownie Pan Tower Defense. It works best if you go Chocolate, Chocolate, Chips, Chocolate. I got up to 47K.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:43:44 -0800

"via?" Don't do that.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:44:31 -0800

twiggy writes 'On the other hand: A one link post to a product that is for sale? Seems spamtastic to me... hmm.' Unlike the condom for masturbation. That would be spermtastic.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:47:02 -0800

Civil_Disobedient writes 'All edge-pieces? Shit, what's next? A loaf of bread consisting entirely of end-pieces? Bleargh.' We call them rolls.

By: romakimmy

romakimmy — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:59:23 -0800

Am I the only one who looked at that pan and thought, "Tetris Brownies"?

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:57:00 -0800

Hmm...if you could bake brownies on the surface of a sphere, you'd have no edges! Except for the sphere surface. How else will you keep in all that gooey goodness?

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:09:35 -0800

Zero G brownies? Wait, cook brownies in a doughy sphere so large it supplies its own gravity! Mmmm.... Brownietoid.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:52:28 -0800

this is going in the wrong direction, in my opinion. for lasagna, this makes more sense.

By: jenkinsEar

jenkinsEar — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:11:03 -0800

Instead of free fall, you could just have a very long heated tube and drop your brownie mix at the top of it; you would have a nearly spherical brownie at the bottom. If you figure 35 minutes of cooking time, you'll need to arrange for 2,100 seconds of falling time. At 32 feet / second/second, you'll need a tube that is 141,120,000 feet, or 26,727 miles. This is close enough to geosynchronous orbit that you could simply suspend your heated tube from a satellite and give it a push downhill. There will be minor problems with catching the brownies when they land; we'll want to keep the tube as a pretty hard vacuum to avoid heating effects burning the brownies. This means that the terminal velocity will be quite high. Depending on the size of the brownie sphere, so some sort of netting device will probably be necessary, unless the brownie hasn't fully cooked and is somewhat gooey on landing. A useful side effect of this edgeless brownie construction system would be that you could use the tube as a space elevator when not actively cooking brownies. This will also be a convenient way to get eggs, milk, and brownie mix up to the satellite for mixing.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:18:49 -0800

I love Metafilter.

By: Zinger

Zinger — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:20:49 -0800

I'm with the gooey goodness crowd on this one, but I have to admit this is a clever pan. I think the lasagna suggestion is right on. jenkinsEar - That's it! Finally a reason the space exploration advocacy crowd can use to really get the public behind them again!

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:45:46 -0800

I'm an edge person. I was just thinking about how to do this the other day, and that pan is a very elegant solution. Another of my life's small problems, solved! Thanks, Metafilter!

By: biscotti

biscotti — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:53:22 -0800

Wait, cook brownies in a doughy sphere so large it supplies its own gravity! Mmmm.... Brownietoid. Humans would then evolve into naked mole rat-type beings, tunneling their way through the Brownietoid with their enormous adapted incisors...

By: Gungho

Gungho — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:21:48 -0800

All edge brownies = Tube pan

By: vronsky

vronsky — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:00:04 -0800

"I know some prefer nutless brownies." All Brownies are nutless Goofyy. The ones with nuts are called "Cub Scouts."

By: WinnipegDragon

WinnipegDragon — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:18:44 -0800

Anyone not flagging jenkinsEar's post as 'fantastic' is an enemy to the brownie cause.

By: honest knave

honest knave — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:45:49 -0800

jenkinsEar: you don't need to have a netting system. Just place another satellite in a geosynchronous orbit at the opposite end of the earth. In this second satellite, install a little robot arm with a plate which swings out just as the spherical brownie reaches a velocity of 0 at the apex. If something goes wrong and one of the brownies grazes against the sides of the tube, I volunteer to journey to the center of the earth, braving the seas of molten chocolate at great, erm, personal risk, to, um, clear the, ah, obstruction, and, uh ........<droool>

By: acro

acro — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:56:30 -0800

klein dunking mug *for Methylviolet's space brownie.

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:57:29 -0800

JenkinsEar, that is "free fall". Anyway, an object dropped into an (evacuated) tunnel through the earth will take 42 minutes to reach the other side. Assume that cooking doesn't start until the brownie-dollop reaches the infernal regions, and it should work fine. Just build a batter factory at the antipodes and have it drop gooey boluses down its hole at regular intervals. Cooked, edgeless brownies will pop up out of the hole on your side, and you can grab and eat them.

By: acro

acro — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:59:12 -0800

WinnipegDragon; old news, you'd just have to slightly modify the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel. ..

By: gwint

gwint — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:42:23 -0800

US Patent 6431059

By: darkstar

darkstar — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:49:42 -0800

Cocobolus!

By: SuzySmith

SuzySmith — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:48:11 -0800

Am I the only one who looked at that pan and thought, "Tetris Brownies"? Nope, that was exactly my first thought. That pan is the greatest pan ever. I am an edge person, my husband is an edge person, my siblings, and on and on, we need this pan.

By: The Straightener

The Straightener — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:59:03 -0800

Space brownie?

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:32:35 -0800

Actually, Jenkin's Ear, as a thought experiment in spherical bread I came up with the idea of a convection oven that is a funnel with a high speed fan at the bottom, and the air at the top recirculating back down the outside of the funnel. This could be used to simulate a free fall brownie cooker.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:33:18 -0800

Sorry, if it isn't clear from the above, the narrow end of the funnel is on the bottom.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:23:40 -0800

metafilter: it drop gooey boluses down its hole at regular intervals.

By: pupdog

pupdog — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:24:35 -0800

It drops the gooey boluses down the hole or else it gets the hose!

By: cali

cali — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:16:52 -0800

Hmmm...What if you took, say, a number of hot air popcorn poppers or hairdryers and placed them together so that they surrounded a roughly sphere-shaped empty space in the middle. Could you then turn them on and suspend a gooey bolus in the middle of the heated forced air until cooked? Paging asavage to the brownie thread...

By: Dreama

Dreama — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:29:09 -0800

I have this pan. This pan works beautifully to make Quadruple Chocolate Brownies. (Someone asked for a recipe. This is a recipe. Enjoy.)

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:00:16 -0800

Edgeless plate of beans, anyone? What if you just rolled the damn dough into spheres and dropped them into hot oil like hush puppies? Come on - deep fried brownie balls?! Are you fuckin' kidding me?! (Sure, they'd have a crust. But they definitely wouldn't have edges. )

By: MiltonRandKalman

MiltonRandKalman — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:21:11 -0800

This seems like a bit of an over kill. If they end goal is more edge, then why not build a 'tic-tac-toe' adapter for existing brownie pans. It would be cheaper and eliminate buying single use utensil.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:39:13 -0800

No to the tic-tac-toe adapter, brownie pans do not come in standardized shapes, and you couldn't get the heat in to make the edge an edge unless you made it copper, and/or hollow. If you did make it copper, it'd scratch the non-stick coating. If you made it hollow it would reduce the volume of the pan a little bit, but I guess that would be okay.

By: Caviar

Caviar — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:32:11 -0800

I'm surprised that they don't actually mention this on their site, but it is the case that if you undercook the brownies slightly, you do, in fact, get a whole pan full of gooey center pieces with no discernible edge crust. I bring back first-hand knowledge from my long journey to the center of the pan (read: I have one, and I've tried this personally).

By: petersn1

petersn1 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:36:34 -0800

LOVE the edge! Right on! Thanks for the post.

By: Phantomx

Phantomx — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:36:39 -0800

How'd I miss this, my really good friend's brother-in-law is the guy that invented this. The brownies are pretty good I must say. I love being at his house and having them.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:05:34 -0800

You know the guy who invented this?! What's his name? Where'd he get the idea from? How long did it take to perfect the pan? What sort of errors did he make in tryiing create this thing? Has it made him rich?

By: Phantomx

Phantomx — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:17:01 -0800

Haha, well his name is Matt for one. I actually don't know much of the process, but I think it was a winner from the start type of idea. He entered it into a contest that would grant the winner money to create their invention. Well look at their "about" page. Emily, who went to Sullivan in Louisville (also where my sister went) plays a MEAN game of Bust a Move. Seriously, I was like untouchable by anyone I've ever met until I heard about her skills and proceeded to get walloped.