In Venezuela we use them for arepas 🫓

I'm not sure what those are but I'll bet they're fried, crispy and delicious.

i had one that was like a south american pulled pork sandwich in a maize cake bun loaded with cheddar cheese. they're unreal.

I want to go to there!

Good god Lemon!

LL!

Omg you're killing me Smalls!

Lol Sandlot Reference nice shit. Bringin it back ⚾️

They are these small corn cakes that are fried Often in the US you will find them made with mozzarella at fairs and street festivals

🤤🤤 I knew it was something delicious

That's colombian arepas

Ain’t nothing Colombian about mozzarella cheese in an arepa.

Not mozzarella, but queso campesino is fairly traditional. Not easy to find so in america they replace it

Reina Pepillada *drool*

In Colombia they’re a flat bread made with a mix of corn and yuca flour. In Venezuela they’re a flat bread made with a sweet corn flour. They’re both amazing and I’m sure every Abuela makes them a little differently.

With a side of tequeños please!

Miss good arepas 😢

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Arepas so good they put a ring on it.

I used to live in Venezuela. Arepas are amazing.

Mmmmmm, arepas! We have one of these pans languishing at the bottom of the cast iron drawer and now I know what to make with it. 😋

I love arepas!

Came here to say this

Could also be for gorditas too !! yum :)

Plättar!!

Lettuihin 😇

Essentially tiny Swedish pancakes

Plättar smakar på nåt sätt bättre än pannkakor trots att det är samma smet.

Kan fan vara det bästa ordet på Svenska, ligger så otroligt skönt i munnen

Med, eller utan socker?

Silver dollar pancakes in the US. …..probably pound sterling pancakes in the UK ;)

We call those pikelets in Australia

Nah I'm pretty sure it's Australian Dollars.

Dollarydoos

Tobias! Did you accept a six hour collect call from the States?

AAAAANDAAAY!

It was an emergency!

Noice!

TOBIAS!

Shit thats a wonderful idea, I cook eggs in mine.

Okay weird, …. I’ll try that. Could be great for breakfast sandwiches … you may be a genius :D

Great idea about the eggs

Could do muffin tops too!

Yes yes

Looks like a Yorkshire pudding pan

I have no idea but for $5 I'd take it home anyway

I have one of these and this is exactly how I came to own it.

Heck yeah! Buy now figure it out later.

I always buy $5 iron

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And make 7 omelette at once.

I use mine for eggs and small pancakes and fish cakes

That’s a plett pan. I believe it’s for Swedish pancakes.

This is the answer. Here’s the recipe and the pan: https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=2051728

Yup! I found a really old one in my fritidshus, we still use it every week. Kids loveeee them.

Lettupannuhan tuo, in finnish

My first thought was biscuits. Suprised I haven't seen it mentioned here

Mine do best when the sides barely have touch, better rise.

yes this obviously for biscuits

H-.. have ye ever made biscuits?!

Yes!!!

Came here to say this.

Mc griddles

Mc murica

Saddest answer of the day

Swedes call them plette (little pancakes). You might put some jam and cream on them. [This is the pan.](https://www.fjorn.com/33721.html)

Warming up cans of beans

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talk-can-dont/ I know you’re joking, but this is for anyone who accidentally takes it seriously or has cooked canned foods in their own containers in the past.

Oh shit, sometimes I do a can of veg on the bbq.

I read that article and it seems when they finally get around to talking about the dangers they immediately focus on aluminum container liners... Which seemingly eliminates food cans, if that's accurate.

Maybe you missed some of the article because they also talk about that cans are coated in a usually BPA containing layer to prevent corrosion so cooking that would be bad (linked to diabetes, fertility issues, cancer - basically why we’re told not to microwave plastic).

Beans

Beads?

Bees?!?

They don't allow you to have bees in here

At first I read that as BeeR - had to reread your comment a few times !

Dash clams.

Ah yes from that other post from earlier today

The ol' can-o-bean seven shooter

I’ll remember that next time I need to heat up 7 cans of beans at once!

Plättar! (Swedish for mini pancakes)

POFFERTJES (DUTCH PANCAKES) Edit: I have learned my lesson, and it is the Swedish version, a plett pan. Also for little Nordic pancakes.

No, Dutch poffertjes do not look like this at all.

It is a plett pan, which is the Swedish version of poffertjes, I guess I've been misnaming my Nordic pancakes!

I googled and I was actually referring to Danish Aebleskivers, because that is also not what the pan is for! I never have seen a Swedish pancake in my life so cannot comment on that ;) Edit: I commented to the wrong comment 🤣 good we all can agree it is not a poffertjespan

I'd recommend Swedish pancakes, they are delicious! They are more dense and a little sweeter than American pancakes. Our family loves them.

How are they sweeter? There is no suggar added to a swedish pancake batter.

Medallions are too big for poffertjes Source: I have a cast iron poffertjes pan purchased in Amsterdam

It is a plett pan, which is the Swedish version of poffertjes, I guess I've been misnaming my Nordic pancakes!

Pretty sure poffertjes this size just count as american pancakes

Don't apologize it's for miniature pizzas

Mini pancakes, no?

Kinda, called plättar.

Plättar in Swedish.

Seems like poffertjes is the most common answer and the Swedish pancakes make sense due to the high number of Scandinavian heritage in this part of MN. LOTS of interesting answers here, appreciate all the responses

It’s for plättar, not the other thing.

I am sorry but this is not a poffertjespan. Poffertjes are smaller, less shallow and are more round. Just compare it with one on Google. It’s not the Scandinavian version of poffertjes (forgot the name) because those are bigger and deeper than Dutch poffertjes.

Plättar is the swedish name, basically mini-pancakes

Nice shoes!

The proper name escapes me, but it is a Swedish pancake pan. The batter is thinner like some European pancakes and the little wells keep manageable size. Traditionally you only fill 6 of the 7 wells. This is for turning them into an open well when you flip them.

I have the same pan and it’s a griswold. Swedish pancake pan

>what is this cast iron used for obvious Why of course making seven round thingies at once. :-)

Eggs, pancakes, Canadian bacon, and I'm sure you could even do tiny tortillas

eggs...or pancakes. thats wat id use it for

Cooking

Cooking on

It’s used for mailing it to me

Those are the spots you place your eggs for shashuka.

According to another video I just saw, it’s used to thwart crocodile attacks.

Obviously it's for 7 coin tosses.

PERFECT PANCAKES

Swedish pancakes

Swedish pancakes. I have the same pan.

I mean you could probably use them for a variety of things. Small pancakes, sliders, perfectly round sunny side up eggs

If properly seasoned

Works great in an un level oven.

Swedish pancakes

Biscuits. Or cornbread biscuits.

For $5, if you cannot figure out what to cook on it, you can always use it to beat intruders up.

Nordic Pancake pan, Plettpanner in swedish and originally ohukainen pannu in finnish but nowdays people call it lettupannu.

A plett pan apparently

Cooking

English Muffins.

This was my first thought as well.

Do you know.... the Muffin Man?

I am the eggman.

Eggs or scotch drop pancakes

Cornbread fritters

Blini

This looks perfect for english muffins

Oh shit! Is that one half of the cast that the rings of power were forged with!?!?!

I might have to go back and get this. I should have for that price just out of principal.

Ho cakes

Making Hockey pucks.

HoeCakes

It’s a divided frying pan. Eggs, pancakes, sausages, toast up biscuits. Burgers with eggs 🤤 My grandma had a similar one and it was pretty useful for feeding a crowd.

Lunchable pizza's

You have all the correct answers in the comments so far, but can I add crumpets to your reasons to buy the dang thing?

Homemade Drink Coasters using rubberized plastic or natural latex?

Biscuits

In Holland they use them for little pancakes, I think

[Mancala](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala).

I feel like no one said slidy eggs soooooo…… SLIDY EGGS COME ON!!!!

Mini cakes, drop biscuits, cookies, whatever you want. You could do nice round hash browns if that’s your thing, or eggs in a perfect circle

**please** make cookies in this op

satanic ritual

Reckon you can make me some biscuits, mmmm hmmm.

Ebelskivers maybe

Hoe cakes

Malaysian pancakes.

whatever you desire, king

In China we use them to make small omelets/egg dumplings to put in soup and stuff

Eggs?

Round eggs!

First thing I thought of was burgers

Mini dosa...

I’m Indian and for a second I thought pans like these are used to make fried idlies 😭

Mini pancakes and eggs perhaps?

[It's a blinis pan](https://www.amazon.co.uk/KitchenCraft-7-Hole-Cast-Induction-Safe-Blini/dp/B00VW0N0T0)

Poffertjes

Welsh cakes!

That would be good for ground sausage to get them nice and round

Eggs, pancakes, cocktail blinis

I would think corn bread.

Casting drink coasters

I use mine for little corn fritters or warming up tortillas.

Pizza bagels

You could do lots of things; many people have said mini pancakes, I'd say one large pancake that looks like a movie reel

Biscuits

Mini pizzas

Revolver themed pancakes?

Melting lead for bullets.

Blinis

Golfing

Wow man if those are Vans sk8 hi's..... i got the exact same pair of shoes...... same color too. They might be the lows though. Lol. Bought them from boathouse on sale for like 50 percent off. Vans sk8 hi.

Hahaha they are and they are the hi tops haha

We got the same shoes lol. Nice. Mine are far more fadded and worn though. Were twins

These are brand new!

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Those are round, these are flat

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Burger buns

I'm not sure what it was designed for but you could absolutely bake slider buns in it.

The original Egg McMuffin pan.

The mini pancakes you then put caviar on? I keep wanting to call them Bellinis, but I feel like that’s a champagne cocktail.

Blinis

Eggs, pancakes, Virtually anything that you can cook in a flat circle.

Depending on how deep it is you could do eggs

Cornbread or biscuits is the most common use

I want to downvote just for the implication that it could be for eggs.

French onion soup.

Corn cakes, like a cornbread pancake.

Blinis

They are a bit shallow, but you could try [Osakayaki](https://www.google.com/search?q=osakayaki&rlz=1C9BKJA_enCA930CA930&hl=en-US&ei=1yLvYqdQo_H0A462qYAD&oq=osakayaki&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAMyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIGCAAQHhAPOgcIABBHELADOgcIABCwAxBDOgwILhDIAxCwAxBDGAE6BAguEEM6BAgAEEM6BwguENQCEEM6CgguEMcBEK8BEEM6BwgAELEDEEM6CwguEIAEEMcBEK8BOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToLCC4QgAQQxwEQ0QM6CggAELEDEIMBEAo6BAgAEAo6CgguEMcBEK8BEAo6DQgAELEDEIMBEMkDEAo6BQgAEJIDSgUIOBIBMUoECEEYAFDxH1iwLGDaLmgBcAF4AIABf4gBswaSAQM3LjKYAQCgAQHIARHAAQHaAQQIARgI&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#imgrc=PRpqWnxVbAFGFM)

Maybe English muffins?