Why do people like waffle irons that flip?

[Hayabusa Rider]

I went to a Mother's Day brunch buffet Sunday where they had two of these going full blast. Sides of sweetened cooked strawberries and whipped cream! Helped with my waffle Jones (my waffler is still in the mail).

for some reason I'm reminded of this. Skip to 4:13

 

[MongGrel]

Much more useful than a rice cooker.

Stop dissing my rice cooker before it gets here

 

[FreeTibet]

I see a lot of speculation on this point, and no real answers. Here's how it works. A "flip style" waffle maker makes exactly one difference and only for thin-batter waffles. It doesn't "distribute the batter more evenly." In fact, if you flip it too soon, the opposite happens. It doesn't "prevent holes." That's determined by how much batter you put in.

All flipping does is cook the top side evenly with the bottom if you're using a thin batter, like Belgian-style waffles. Maybe that's why the Belgian-waffle "purists" are in love with flipping, or maybe it's just love of tradition (flipping was necessary before the electric waffle iron, when they were made on a waffled skillet over a stove that cooked only from the bottom, I don't know. But if you aren't making thin waffles, flipping makes no difference.

If you want the batter to "distribute evenly," just pour it in the middle. Gravity and pressure from the top of the iron will do the rest. If you want to "prevent holes," add more batter and hold (or clip if your iron has one) the iron closed for the first 30 seconds or so to force the batter outward rather than upward as it starts to expand with cooking.

 

[CraKaJaX]

ban

 

[kranky]

ban

The post was on-topic, no need for ban.

 

[JulesMaximus]

They flip because the people making them secretly wish that they were making pancakes, a superior breakfast. A wafflemaker flips his waffle while imagining a pancake in much the same way a ATOTer tugs on his sausage, imagining that a pointy elbowed dame was doing it.

:biggrin::thumbsup:

 

[waggy]

Only good waffles are blue waffles.

 

[CraKaJaX]

The post was on-topic, no need for ban.

lol - It wasn't so much of on/off-topic, but more of a 5 year necro from:

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This is happening a lot lately. I don't get it.

 

[zinfamous]

excellent necro.

 

[zinfamous]

lol - It wasn't so much of on/off-topic, but more of a 5 year necro from:

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Join Date: Jun 2015
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This is happening a lot lately. I don't get it.

it's less than a year since the most recent post

 

[NetWareHead]

Only good waffles are blue waffles.

Had those the other day....delicious. Debating a second serving tomorrow morning.

 

[waggy]

Had those the other day....delicious. Debating a second serving tomorrow morning.

It's good to see people enjoying the finer things in life.

 

[kranky]

lol - It wasn't so much of on/off-topic, but more of a 5 year necro from:

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This is happening a lot lately. I don't get it.

I'm willing to wait and see when we get our free Tibets. It's a refreshing change from the promise of free ipads.

 

[MarkXIX]

You guys can argue over the second best breakfast food. We all know french toast is superior to all other breakfast foods.

Agreed. FT is superior in so many ways, especially when it is encrusted in Cap'n Crunch and fried in butter and then topped with warm maple syrup.