I love trying new things in the kitchen! I have never used a culinary torch, but I had been dying to get one. So when Jo Chef offered me a culinary torch for a review of their product I happily obliged.  Besides just a review I thought I would combine it with a recipe! I thought a Banana Pudding Mini Pie recipe with a meringue topping would be just the thing to try the torch out on.

My recipe is a little different than your standard banana pudding recipe. I added cream cheese and vanilla cake mix because who doesn’t like sugar on sugar. I’ve had a mixed relationship with meringue toppings. I’ve had pies where I don’t think they really mixed it enough or added weird things to it. A good meringue is simple and fully incorporated and mine was just that. The browning with the torch also brought out my inner pyromaniac that I didn’t know I had 😊 haha.

The Jo Chef torch worked great for what I needed it to do and browned the meringue perfectly! It didn’t leave any weird fuel like taste and was a lot of fun to work with. If you’re in the market for a butane culinary torch I would recommend it. Furthermore, for less than $40 its basically a mini flame thrower and that’s a lot of fun too 🤣.