Hercule Poirot on Mass-Produced British Meat Pies

I love the Hercule Poriot tv series and can just see the rotund little fellow with that supercillious look on his face saying that. Its sort of how I feel about commercial pies. There are so many of them and most of them are horrid!

I was shopping this weekend, and looking for a particular item and while perusing the appliance section in Sears store, came across an item that fits with the pies theme, its called a MY PIE baker. Its like a sandwich grill or waffle iron in that its got a top plate and a bottom plate, with dimples on each that make PIES I didn't open a box and read the directions, but expect you make the dough, place the dough into the deep wells on the bottom, fill and place a top crust on, the crust obviously swells up into the top dimple (shallow) and bakes it into a pie. Talk about over kill! I can do the same with foil tins and my regular oven!

Of course they didn't have a pizzle iron but they did have panni presses (my original waffle iron (electric) had plates you turned over to make them) and all the George Forman and other grill makes, even a fancy stone grill with alcohol lights that you can grill at the table with, but not a single pizzle or krumcake iron to be found. They even had a special oven for countertop use to make deep fried potatoes without actually frying them, it uses a tablespoon of oil! ??? I cannot even think of that! Wonder if it does doughnuts too? Fritters? fried cookies???