Recreating Infomercial Meals With A Vintage Snakmaster Sandwich Maker
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Let's make a few of the snacks from the 1989 informercial with Cathy Mitchell! Big thanks to lovely Sari for sending me the Snakmaster and for making this episode possible.🧡
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Sponsorship.
1:37 The Snakmaster.
2:58 A close-up of the machine.
3:55 Making pizza snacks.
7:04 Pizza taste test.
7:52 Making pancakes & eggs.
9:36 Eating breakfast.
10:36 Oh, boy, cinnnamon rolls!
11:26 Loading the machine with dough.
11:59 The finished rolls.
12:45 The inside of the cinnamon rolls.
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YAY!!! So much infomercial love!
Auntie, I am so jealous. Mommy only allowed me to have The George Foreman Grill, and The Ronco Rotisserie.
In red hat you look like Wally)))
Yes, Ron popeil was everything !
My childhood friend and I would purposely stay up late together on weekends in order to watch infomercials 😂
@@yelhsasokolova8561 Now Auntie EmmyMade needs to do a video where she applies the Tom Vu system.
One year when I was about to have my son's 10th birthday (he's almost 32 now) our gas stove broke. I was planning on making his cake that morning.
I ended up mixing up the batter and I used my sandwich maker that was just like yours to bake it. I ended up with a bunch of little triangle cakes that I put on a platter then drizzled with the frosting that I warmed up a bit. The kids absolutely loved it!! We baked many cakes like that for several years. They loved it every time! 🎉😂😊❤
What a great story! I'd like to see Emmy try it!
That is an amazing story! Necessity is the mother of invention. Only a mother would think to embrace that invention. Good job.
@@kathleenfrost6563That’s really sweet, thank you❤ I definitely learned to think on my feet when things didn’t always go the way I had planned sometimes. It’s really awesome to see my kids doing things for their kids now that they thought was great fun. But I know they came from having to figure something out in a hurry when something went wrong😂❤
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Not having an oven. But a sandwich maker. Ive been itching to make cake, and this solves a problem I've been thinking over for the last few weeks. Thank you so much! 😂 How full do you make the doodads? To account for rise.
As a 90s kid myself, looking back, infomercials played a larger part in my life than I care to admit.
A lot of these appliances were targeted towards latch key kids. Unsupervised children and scalding hot cheese was a bad idea.
Never saw yhis gadget or infomercial. My sister and I, as school kids in the late 1960s/early 1970s would get home and heat up Totinos Pizza Rolls in the little toaster oven. 😊
Somehow I got the idea that 19.99 was a magical price
Yet you just admitted it
@@wesleycantner6581 I enjoy irony.
I LOVE IT when you do shows of old vintage gadgets or appliances.
same, i love seeing these sorts of videos. Before social media you had to be lucky enough to know someone who had bought it, and bothered to use it; to get a valid take.
I watch all of Emmy's kitchen gadget videos. It's how I found the channel.
Omg I loved this. I begged for it lmao.
Yeah the crappy appliances are the best.
These are still really commonly bought in the UK we just called them Toastie Machines. That shell pattern is the key to knowing it was made in one. Really nostalgic from childhood but still use during adulthood!
Same here. loads of memories. Grew up in South Africa where our family called it a "Snackwicher". I now live in NZ and they call it a toastie as well. Just as popular as it was in the 70s and 80s.
Toastie machine. Grew up with infomercials from K-Tel. Mom had a Breville or the Sunbeam toastie maker, think was 1981 or 82, by 85 I was allowed to use the hallowed toastie machine and make toasties, made a round of cheese and ham. Cheese and Pickles, cheese and tomato, if you felt decadent enough and rich enough to buy Heinz Toast topper, and served it with Heinz Tomato soup.
I often wonder if was the margarine that we used on our bread and coated the hot plate that destroyed the entire non stick coating? We never bothered with breakfast sandwiches, except cheesy baked beans (Heinz). I admit that is a prime example of a Scottish child’s diet. Solid bean pizza pocket!
My other staple was banana, peanut butter and chocolate spread.
Uh Think was K-Tel and Ronco based infomercials, however after 1986 QVC became the main shopping channel
I had the George Grill, and the exactly the same issue is the non stick, and the mess.
Now Air fryer what a delectable Gadget.
Yeah this is a toastie maker in Australia, too. Specifically the Breville '74
Your videos are so great for anxiety and depression..nothing too heavy or nothing that triggers anxiety. Just soothing! Thank you!
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exactly
So true! Emmy’s videos are a constant comfort for me. I always come here when I’m feeling down and it works perfectly ❤
Same same 🙋🏼♀️
So true. ❤
We still have a fully functional Snackmaster from when it first came out! Still makes awesome snacks💯
I do as well. 😂
I have one as well, used it when I was a kid now I use it to make sandwiches for my own kid lol
Have one also made pizza pockets and fill it with what they wanted
Yessss. My parents still have ours!
Me too wife to lazy 2 cook poor me
I was a latch key kid starting at the age of 9 (1992). There were rules, my parents weren’t total heathens after leaving me alone 😂 I wasn’t allowed to use the microwave…but they said nothing about the sandwich maker! Many after school snacks were made using the sandwich maker. I haven’t had a sandwich from one of these in years. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Yes! It was a latchkey kid's best friend.
1990's is vintage now? Damn! I'm old! 😂I still have mine. My college-aged daughter uses it to make a tasty lunch.
I was thinking the same. We had one untill just a few years ago, but now I feel really old. 😭
1990 is a far away now as 1960 was in 1990. 🙃
I was thinking the same thing about the 90s being vintage 😵💫 I'm not ready for this
Vintage is usually something that's 25 years old or older.
So next year 2000 will be vintage 😂😢😅
@@m.janski oh... oh no. I feel my life slipping away at that realization. Brb, I'm just gonna go sign in to palliative care real quick ☠
Core memory unlocked! My dad and I were up in the middle of the night watching TV and that infomercial came on. I begged my dad for one and he caved. We used it for years! I need to dig through my parents garage and see if it's still around.
I love how Emmy has a seemingly endless amount of video topics. Emmy could talk about different types of dirt and it would be amazing!
I remember whipping up a couple eggs with a bit of cream and pouring the mixture into the wells before adding various fillings like ham, mushroom, onion, cheese, spinach, etc., to make puffy omelets. They were definitely tasty and went very well with the French toast made in the same machine. Nice to see this shown again.
Cathy Mitchell - the queen of infomercials
Don’t forget about Ron Popeil
You can make Corndog triangles with one of these - cut a hot dog in half, put 1/2 hot dog in each triangle, fill the remaining space with cornbread mix, close and cook. Works great!
Oh, I'm glad you're doing the vintage kitchen gadgets again! I really miss these.
I love these too
What we would call a toastie maker in NZ, Sunbeam used to be the main brand. Sweetcorn was always my favourite filling, or egg and cheese.
Yep, Jaffle Maker here in Australia! So good. Warning of literally lava temp cheese &/or tomatoes though, lol.
We call it that in Holland too, though I live in Canada. Mum was Dutch lol
US person here. What exactly goes into a sweet corn toastie? I'm imagining it's more than just corn on bread but I dunno
We in Scotland stand with our Kiwi Toastie brothers and sisters 😅
@@WeAreASecret I'm not sure if they mean ONLY sweet corn, but they mean as an addition. So cheese/corn is quite nice, or with a protein as well like chicken or ham... The choices are endless, because the jaffle maker seals the edges, as shown here in the video, so you can jam whatever you want in there!
Oh my goodness! I had one of those in the '90's. I used to make chocolate cake snacks for my kids after school treat. Just make the cake mix according to the recipe on the box and put it in the snack master. They LOVED it! I was talking to my son and he remembers those treats very fondly. I recently was at the thrift store and bought a snack master for like $3. I made the chocolate cake snacks for my grand-daughter. She was just a little impressed. LOL
How long do you cook the cakes for? 😮😮
@@Nixijokenzi There is a light and when you add the batter or sandwich stuff it turns green when it's done. I usually let the cakes go another minute or two. You can do the toothpick test in the center to make sure they are done. I would then sprinkle the cakes with powdered sugar when I took them out.😃Hope this helps.
I’ve still got my old Breville Sandwich Toaster from the 1970’s and it still works brilliantly. It’s got the great 70’s design on it too. Love it!
This is a classic Australian-style jaffle maker! I'm about to watch the video and will be looking out for these Aussie classics, which I can only assume will be represented:
- baked beans sandwiches
- spaghetti sandwiches
- instant noodle sandwiches
- apple pie sandwiches
- last night's leftover takeaway curry sandwiches
If outback steakhouse really wanted to emulate Australian cuisine it would just be a whole menu of jaffles
Omg I would kill for a spag-o-saurus jaffle right now. Off to woolies. 🤣🤣
Also there is a jaffle cafe near me but they do more roasted sandwiches than the sealed type but still yum!
I think South African too!
These were always filled with scalding hot spaghetti in our house, delish
Amazing she's only scored the two-sandwich maker!!
I've got the Breville 4 jaffle maker, and mate - it's used every other day!! Baked beans and SPC spaghetti for brekky!! NOICE!!
I always loved when they would add stuff like the cinnamon rolls in those infomercials. Like as if tossing them in an 8x8 pan is hard and this is easy 😂
This is great for when you want a single serving. A pan us generally more for several servings.
9:51 "Tastes like Denny's". Yeah, I'm not really sure that's a ringing endorsement 😂
We had one of these in the 90s.! My favorite things to make were apple turnovers and cherry pies using canned pie filling. An easy sweet treat!
I had one for the kids too. My son liked using cinnamon applesauce in it for quick filling.
I own one and its fun. I bought about 5 years off the $1 table a antique extravaganza .
My parents had one of these. Made the best ham and cheese toasties. Loved using it as a kid.
I have the one I ordered for the kids,(now grown) still in the cupboard. It made great after-school snacks. Fruit pies, white bread and canned pie filling,were loved by all. We also did the pizzas. I may even have the original cookbook that came with it somewhere. I love your videos.
This was one of my favorite appliances in middle school! I constantly made cheese pockets, ham and cheese pockets, and peanut butter pockets.
This takes me back to the 90s when all I did was make toasties, I think my parents first saw one of these while we where in Portugal that year and bought one as soon as we got home 😅
*Emmy, you are so close to reaching 3M subscribers! You should consider doing a LIVE stream here on UA-cam in acknowledgement of such an auspicious occasion!* ❣️
I would be delighted!
Omg trauma unlocked: my grandmother, whom I’m pretty sure hated, well, everyone, used to force feed me scalding hot peanut butter and banana pockets she made in this thing. They scalded my mouth and made me gag. If I didn’t eat it all, I was in trouble and couldn’t have anything else. After she would made me hand pick up leaves in the yard while she banged on the window that I missed some.
Phew. Thanks for this free therapy moment 😂😮❤
I was a Freshman in college in the mid '90's. My roommate had one of these, and there was sandwich truck that parked near our dorm what sold bologna and cheese sandwiches on white bread.
We put hundreds of those bologna and cheeses through the Snakmaster. We generally used Pam cooking spray, too. This elevated the sandwich to the point that we felt like we were eating "real" food.
On weekends, if we'd managed to get hold of some eggs, we'd do scrambled eggs, which worked great.
One time we attempted to make "chili pockets" using sliced bread and canned chili. It was a mess and we never tried that again.
We loved out Snakmaster.
That snack master reminds me of the first video games like the Intel-a-vision (I think that's how it was spelled) Atari and others. Our kids will never know how it was to have infomercials or how it was to get up and change the channel, for that matter they can watch whatever they want on demand so no more waiting for a show to come on. Wow, I got old, and time really does fly. Yesterday I wanted to ride my BMX bike then get my drivers license and now I wish I could do the tricks I used to do, or just ride that bike as far as I used to. I'll be 50 next year, YIKES! This is why we all watch you Emmy, great video and trip down memory lane. The build quality on that thing was great, like the first George Forman grill I wish I still had, simple and works.
My mom still has hers🥰 the sandwiches she made with that machine was unmatched😁
Thats the exact unit my mom had and used to make us breakfast in the 90's. It was amazing and mesmerizing to watch in action.
This video is hilarious. Vintage!? Here in Australia we can still buy these brand new. They are tremendously popular and many brands now come with different plates in the pack to make different types of toasted sandwiches including mini doughnuts. I have had mine for years and love it still. The originals were cast iron and you'd hold them in a fire or on the gas stove and I still have one of those. Great for camping. Love your vid's. Cheers
Toast iron makers still exist. The one you hold over a fire. We have them in outdoor stores.
Nostalgic for sure! We had one. That crunch on the pizza pocket! The crisp edges are the best! Kinda want one again :)
Ron and Kathy along with PBS cooking shows were my childhood. Not growing up with cable, I enjoyed watching them.
My generation had the GT Express 101. Basically a more modern version of this and it was pretty nice. I remember making many an easy breakfast/dinner/snack in it growing up as a kid. Love little gadgets like this. :)
My mom got a similar one like that, she got it before she was married. I am now 30+ years old and I think the sandwich maker is almost 40 years old and still works perfectly fine. Old appliances are durable
My friends makes pb&j’s with toasted bread, this would be so perfect to make like a toasted uncrustable! 😂
YAAASSSS! OMG I still have mine since college. I can't bring myself to get rid of it. About once every 10 years, give or take, I fire it up to make a peanut butter and cheese sammy 😂
all hail the toasted peanut butter and cheese sandwich! I honestly thought I was the only one that knew this deliciousness!!
Oh the nostalgia! My grandmother had one of these and I always thought it was so cool. She would let me make sandwiches with it every time I would visit.
OMG…I loved watching her informercials. Kathy was so great.
Hers were *ALWAYS* the best! I remember staying up/waking up SUPER early to try to catch her infomercials! Infomercials these days are boring compared to those of the 80's/90's
Oh I loved this when my kids were little! Great omelets, pizza pockets & buscuits!,
I would die to just have the whole RonCo line. His informercials were like heaven to me. Even the hair spray one lol.
I remember Kathy and I don't even have to look her up - those add ins, I remember them and I remember her coaching us to use the appliance very similarly to your presentation! I had this machine and I used it a lot - we got tired of triangular food, faster than I expected. But if you can stay enticed by triangular food, you can make curry and noodle triangles, stuffed sandwiches, premade rolls, brownie batter, etc. Just remember, triangles!
Oh how I love this. I’m a 94 baby so my equivalent was her GT Express 101 infomercial. I wish I knew how many times I actually watched that late night or early morning. I just found it on UA-cam and I’m loving the nostalgia. Thank you for the reminder!! Loved this video
WE LOVED OUR SNAKMASTER❤❤❤
I remember having so many sandwiches from one of these as a kid. The crunch of the crust where the bread seals off, love it! I was always amazed we could squish all the bread and fillings into the machine, haha.
I had one of those and my kids loved the grilled cheese, grilled pb &j, and grilled cheese, egg, and bacon sammies.
I remember many 90's infomercials.
I watched Cathy quite a bit.
I just watched her use the SnackMaster.
Her cinnamon rolls were smaller and half as thin as the ones you used.
So, yeah, just use 1 cinnamon roll per well.
Ahhh, the comfort of the infomercial! For me, they were more Saturday or Sunday afternoon than late night. But I definitely remember the snack maker and Cathy! I seem to remember her making stuff with biscuit mix and, as a Canadian, that just seemed so cool and American, and so many tasty things could be made so easily! Sad your cinnamon buns didn't work out... maybe you could come back some day and show how it worked with just one in each well. 😊
Ah, this took me back to all those hours spent watching infomercials back in the day! 😊
We always butter the bread from the side its on the toaster. It sticks less and makes them holden brown.
I had this growing up the grilled cheese made from these were divine. PS there is way less sticking with using butter or brushing on vegetable oil spraying it you have the risk of missing spots.
I own that exact appliance. Was my grandmother's, and my mother gave it to me. Still works perfectly and is so fun to use. :)
It looks like an old toasted sandwich makes, which is just a fancier way of cooking between two irons 😅
I love finding things common in my own country for decades being a novelty in others, I honestly think we never had infomercials because they are so familiar. I would suggest buttering the outside of the bread when using it and fillings like creamed corn and cheese, or any leftovers are stunning.
The nostalgia this just brought me... My mother used to make me those pizza snacks. See them again put an instant smile on my face. Thank you!!
These are common in Australia and still popular. I grew up in the 90s also and we call them Jaffles or Breville after the brand of sandwich maker most common here. Usually we put ham and cheese, cheese and tomato, or baked beans as a filling! I was taught to put two pieces of buttered bread together and ingredients on top of that. Then you lift the first layer into the machine with butter side facing down and ingredients facing up. Then you add the second slice on top, butter side facing up. You get a really nice caramelisation as it browns and makes it less sticking.
OMG my family has one of these but I'd completely forgotten. I made grilled ham and chees sandwiches and French toast in it.
I’m a 90s kid and my family was obsessed with their toasty maker that we took it on holiday with us abroad… we took a toasty maker on a plain with us 😆 I think I’m going to go buy one this weekend. Thank you Emmy!!
I acquired a similar appliance and used it so often for many different "meals" so quick and easy and clean up was effortless ❤ definitely a great appliance to have especially if you have a small living space situation.
I've got a 1986 Breville called Neville which is quite similar (does have a fancy light and tempreture cut off switch though) and he came with a whole recipe book of wierd and wonderful suggestions.
One thing I've noticed though is he can be real picky with bread, I tried a farmhouse loaf once and it's sugar content seemed to virtually cement itself to the plates, he just seems happiest with basic sliced white supermarket stuff that is cut and sealed perfectly nearly every time.
Fun fact: Those pizza pockets is basically what we call a toast in Greece: two slices of factory bread toasted on a small grill with any filling you would like in between, but most commonly a slice of gouda and turkey ham. It is a very beloved breakfast here especially for young children. You can even eat it uncooked if you are in a hurry and it still tastes delicious.
We had something like this when I was a kid (I think we still have it actually, though last time we tried using it there was a significant amount of smoke 😅)
I remember we would make grilled cheese with buttered sandwich bread and Munster cheese, and then for dessert we’d do the same thing with bread, but the filling was jam. I practically begged to be able to use that thing, it was so good.
Always love it when you do these types of videos, especially the older food fads lol. It's like teleporting back in time. Vintage is nostalgia, and that is life haha! We had one of those, and us kids wore that thing out! Was a latchkey kids dream😂
I'm thankful that I have always been a person that could exercise restraint, because my garage would look absolutely ridiculous at this point 😂😂😂
I use to stuff my bread with bologna and cream cheese or Stouffer's Creamed Chipped Beef and toast them up with the Snackmaster. Nostalgic. How neat that you were sent one. Back when the Snackmaster was out, the cinnamon rolls were smaller.
I STILL watch this Cathy Mitchell Snakmaster infomercial. It’s so old she still had dark hair! Maybe late 80’s-early 90’s? A gem of a vintage find this contraption is!
Lol! I grew up watching my Mom amd Dad smack the biscuit roll tube on the counter edge! So dramatic! Us kids used to love watching them do that and hear that pop!
MMy grandma had one of these. I loved to do Strawberry Cream Cheese with tinned Cherry Pie filling on white bread. The crimped crunchy edges where the filling oozed out was my favorite. So now I think I will go on a hunt at a thrift store for this!
Also Infomercial gadgets are so fun and cool sometimes!
Imagine 3M people following you because you look so adorable when you chew. 😊 congrats
My grandmother had one of these!
I was a very picky eater as a kid and I always made
myself a grilled cheese with this when we visited every Sunday
Oh wow, my kids loved that "machine" I actually went through 3 of them over the yrs lol
I got one of these brand new at a Goodwill for a couple of bucks in the early 2000's, just made sandwiches with it never thought of eggs or anything. I liked and I used it until it quit working.
Thank you sooo much, I was trying to find a brace and this helped a lot!
My family bought one of these when they were new and exciting. We used it for literal decades. I think it's still floating around somewhere. It still worked even a few years ago. I loved it.
I actually have one of these! It was a hand-me-down from someone when we got married in 2004. I need to pull it back out! It made some yummy breakfasts for the kiddos!
I remember having one of these and the sticking on the sides being an issue. Thanks for the nostalgia revisit to an older appliance.
I had one of these growing up! They were great!
I remember that infomercial too! I bought a similar appliance on Amazon and had the same result you did with the cinnamon rolls.
I lived for those infomercials Emmy. Loved em. I loved the one with the first immersion blender that you could make whipped cream out of skim milk!! Loved it!!😂😂😂😂😂
How is that even scientifically possible lol
We call them Toasty maker. I have one, but mine is not Vintage. Always nice to have one at hand for a lovely snack.
Walmart had a single style one on their black Friday small appliances sale.
You know the mini waffle makers and the ramen pot and a sandwich press lol
@@Emeraldwitch30 That sounds good. I am in the UK, sadly we do not have a Walmart here but my Son lives in the US so I might ask him.
This was one of the few Infomercial projects my family bought. I loved it! I wonder if my parents still have theirs.
We had this and it was the bomb making grilled cheese and peanut butter sandwiches
In Australia we call this a jaffle when bread used. Better when you butter the outside of the bread before you cook. Gives a lovely colour and helps not to stick 😊
I got one as a wedding shower present in never used it, now I wish I had. 😄
In Europe this is still a very common thing that you can buy in many stores. I have an old one that I bought 30 years ago that I use nearly every day to make tosti's (croque monsieur) and a newer one with 3 different inlays 1. for waffles 2. for tosti's 3. for grilling stuff like burgers or hotdogs that I bought 10 years ago. As a child in the 70s/80s we had a non electric cast iron one that you heat on a campfire or gas stove.
I remember the infomercial for this product so clearly. When I was a kid, I wanted one of those so badly.
Yes!! My mother bought us one from the infomercial when I was a kid and it was awesome. I ate so, so many white bread pizza pockets.
Such nostalgia for me too... My mom had one of these that we used a couple of times. I just remember burning my mouth eating the sandwich pockets she created because I wasn't patient enough.
I always dreamt of doing this with the magic bullet! I have actually watched that infomercial again a few weeks ago because I just had fond memories of it. 😅
I used to make all kinds of things with that. My nieces and nephews loved the filled pancakes I made with fruit or jam.
My mom had this in the 90s, I made all sorts snacks outta this when I got home after school, LOL. PBJs, ham and cheese, buttered cinnamon toast, grilled cheeses, no hot pockets bought in my household.
we used to have something like this when i was younger...I remember it being a more square shaped devices than rectangular, but it was called a Snackster, and it produced little triangular sealed toasted sandwiches just like these. My mom eventually gave it away cause she got tired of storing it, but I used to use it all the time to make grill cheeses
Kathy Mitchell’s videos are basically comfort food for the soul. Safe. Comfy. And if you act now, we’ll throw in this security blanket for free!
In our late teens my brother and I made a hangout spot in the corner of the garage, and used the Snackmaster and Jiffy brand Blueberry Muffin Mix to make snacks for our friends!
I received a Cuisinart version at work for Christmas 15 years ago and I instantly thought of Cathy's commercial!!!! I still use it once in a blue moion. Thank you so much for this video and the memories!
I had something similar growing up, a breville toaster, and we would make cheese toasties and pizza style toasties too. The only difference was we would butter the outside of the bread before toasting rather than oiling the toaster, this would give it a almost fried outside, no sticking and a beautiful golden coat. I'd highly recommend. You can achieve something similar in a George Forman grill. I did so when my parents breville toaster from the 80s gave up the gun.
We were a Sandwich Snacker house! 😄 My sister and I were latchkey kids, and weren't allowed to use the stove when mom wasn't home, but we were allowed to make a grilled cheese in this! This and the microwave were the cooking gadgets of our childhood!
I had one of these and made so many things in it. My sons were born in 2000 and 2003 and I made them things like the eggs, pancakes, muffins, cookies, etc when my oven was broken.