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Aebleskiver Pans
Aebleskiver Pans are special pans in which to cook Aebleskivers (small Danish pancake balls) on top of the stove.
The pans are usually round, but some are shovel-shaped. Round ones will be about 8 inches (20 cm) wide. You can get them made from cast iron, forged aluminum or non-stick coated metal. The handle is often metal, but may be wood or plastic.
The pan has in it rounded cavities (also described as indents, cups and more energetically, "half-spherical hollows"), traditionally seven of these, about 2 inches (5 cm) wide and 1 inch (2 1/2 cm) deep.
Each pan has two identical parts, the top and the bottom. Both have the same indents, lined up.
In most, you can see the round indents coming out of the underside of the bottom piece. A few, though, will have undersides that hiding the indents at the bottom, with flat sides and a flat bottom (picture a cast-iron flying pan with what looks like a poached-egg insert) -- manufacturers say this distributes the heat more evenly when placed on the heat. Manufacturers who leave the indents forming the hollow-sided bottom exposed counter that this design focusses the heat on the cavities.
To use them, you heat the pan until a few drops of water in it will sizzle away immediately. Melt about 1/2 teaspoon of butter in each cavity. Put your Aebleskiver pancake mixture into the indents, filling each about 2/3 full. Start cooking with the top part of the pan on. As the pancakes puff up into the indents above, they are forced to be somewhat round on top. Then take the top off, and rotate them in their bottom cavities, with a fork, skewer or knitting needle (sic), to put the unbrowned tops on the bottom. Cover again, and put back on the heat, to cook the top (now the bottom) thoroughly.
The outsides of the pancakes will get all crusty.
Aebleskiver Pans are similar to Indian Kuzhi Appam Pans (aka Appakarai Pans), Thai "Kanom Krok" Pans, and Japanese Takoyaki Pans.
Cooking Tips
You need to season the cast-iron ones first.
Language Notes
An alternative name, "Munk Pans" comes from another Danish name for Aebleskiver, "Munker" (Monks).
Also called:  Munk Pans Cacerola de Munk (Spanish)
See Also
Aebleskivers, Appachatti Pans, Appakarai Pans, Cast Iron, Kanom Krok Pans, Takoyaki
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