The 7 Best Waffle Makers, Tested and Reviewed | gastrobackuae

After a few trial runs, I had evenly baked waffles that were perfectly golden. Overall, this is a good waffle maker if you don’t need to feed a crowd in a hurry. It’s also good if you don’t want to spend too much or mind the lack of features. Helpfully, this waffle maker is slim enough to slot into a gap in your kitchen cupboards.

• Carrie Honaker is a food writer who has enjoyed the pleasures of waffles at home.
• During our tests, we found that the batter spread evenly but left the edges a bit pale compared to the rest of the golden results.
• The GASTROBACK Advanced Waffle Maker has a selection of controls for cooking all sorts of waffles.
• Depending on how much control you want over your waffles, it may be worth investing in something that includes more brown settings.

It can also be a challenge to place the right amount of batter in the right spot to avoid overflow, or conversely, to fill the mold. During our testing, we found that pouring ½ cup of batter as recommended in the manual (PDF) caused some overflow, but a scant half cup did fine. Spreading the batter over the plates with a heatproof spatula, as instructed in the manual, helps. Cleanup was a breeze thanks to the nonstick interior, and we appreciated the included precision-pour cup, which made it easy to measure and pour the batter.

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You get a wide range of settings to play with to adjust the texture and brownness levels, and an automatic countdown timer lets you know exactly when the waffles will be ready. Another feature of the Presto Flipside is the digital countdown timer. The manufacturer recommends four minutes of cook time, but this can be adjusted based on personal preference.

Tools & Features

However, you do need to make sure you have room on the countertop to flip it completely over on its side after you fill it with batter. It lights up and beeps when it’s hot enough for baking and again when your waffle is ready, but we wish the beeps were louder—they would be easy to miss in a noisy kitchen. After breakfast, you can latch the grids together and store it on its side to have more room to prep for the next meal. Not only is the appliance itself small and thin, it stands up for storage and the cord can be wrapped in the bottom. While there’s a light to indicate that it’s ready for the batter and when waffles are fully baked, there’s no sound so you have to keep an eye on it. We think that’s a small drawback for a waffle maker this good and this inexpensive.

Features

And, for the price tag, Juicer we felt that the resulting waffles shouldn’t have spotty browning and pale edges. The size of your waffles, meanwhile, really depends on personal preference. A mini waffle maker, of course, cooks smaller waffles, which are great for breakfast sandwiches and desserts. There are waffle makers that make one waffle, two waffles, and sometimes even four. If you’re entertaining a large group of people for breakfast or are catering an event, you may want to consider how many waffles a maker gets out and how long this will take.