slo’s MONDAY 9/12 poll - Waffles

[#1hoosierfan]

I like them. I have a tradition of making the boys waffles from my Mickey waffle iron on snow days.

 

[tasha99]

I like Belgian style liege waffles (yeasted ones), but they are such a pain to make and the pearl sugar in them makes the waffle iron so hard to clean after every. single. waffle. I made them once over 5 years ago, and the Belgian waffle maker sits in the garage. Regular American and Belgian are okay, but I prefer pancakes. But I'm not a huge fan of carby breakfasts and would rather have eggs and bacon.

If I'm going to have a sugary breakfast, my choice would be kuign amman pastry or almond croissants. Since leaving NYC, no kuign amann (Dominique Ansel, I miss you), but Trader Joes has frozen almond croissants that are pretty tasty.

 

[TwoMisfits]

Since I can only eat homemade waffles now (allergies), I have a Belgian waffle maker and use it for special occasions. I love to make flavored waffles with a fresh fruit sauce.

I've done sweet potato belgian waffles with a warmed maple banana sauce, although nothing beats the chocolate chip waffles with the fresh strawberry sauce and whipped cream (allergy friendly version)...

 

[hhisc16]

Waffle House has the best!

 

[mrodgers]

Of course I love waffles. Anything from home made Belgian waffles to Eggo waffles.

I just like pancakes and French toast better, especially the French toast. I don't make French toast very often because it's tough for me to hold onto milk. Even a quart, I'm throwing half of it out (no room in the tiny freezer.)

 

[E&Cmom]

I like them. We have a belgium waffle maker that DH or DD uses quite often. I also get them at time at restaurants. Haven’t had the frozen ones in years but like them when I was younger.

 

[fla4fun]

I like them OK. I like French toast the best, followed by pancakes with waffles coming in third. I don’t make them at home, but I enjoy them when traveling. At many hotels with free breakfasts the fresh waffles can be the most tasty of the offerings available. Much better than the reheated egg pucks!

 

[1420Elexismc]

I have a waffle iron that I have used twice since 2017 lol...I love getting them while I'm out to eat. We went to Hershey years ago and the hotel had the make-your-own that my husband was OBSESSED with

 

[FQLover]

I like French Toast more than waffles or pancakes.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I really like waffles. Homemade, frozen, restaurants, hotels. I think I prefer the thinner kind I had when I was a kid, before the current Belgian ones became popular maybe 20 or more years ago. I think I prefer French Toast, especially if made well, thicker, fluffy, eggy on the inside. Pancakes are great also.

An aside story.....before I retired back end of 2020, I had a client who sold the Belgian waffle batter mix to the restaurants, hotels, any place selling or serving waffles. He covered the Midwest.

He told me that waffles were, by far, the item with the highest net profit margin sold by almost any food facility. He said that as long as the restaurant, etc. purchased their batter mix from his company (which dominates the commercial waffle market), the waffle mix company gives the food service place a very expensive waffle maker to use, free. Here is that program. Now, this was about 6 years ago that he quoted these prices, so prices are up some since then, I am sure. But, he said then that if the food service place purchased their mix and had to add their own milk, the food service cost was about 18¢ per waffle, plus the milk cost. If they purchased the mix where only water had to be added, the food service cost was about 23¢ per waffle. Back then, waffles were $6-7 around here, now about $8-9.

 

[Imzadi]

Cross-posting from the "What did you bake today?" thread:

I love waffles.

I just got this wonderful, professional level waffle maker. I always wanted one like the hotel buffets have, where I can flip the waffles over while baking. It has a temperature gauge so I can make my waffles extra crispy.

I usually prefer flatter, American waffles, as Belgian waffles are a bit too doughy for me. But, being able to make them extra crispy solves that problem.

I've been making waffles every day.

First day was pumpkin flax waffles. I used the Kodiak Cakes Protein Pancake mix. I doctor the mix up by adding extra cinnamon, ginger, vanilla and sugar.

Next I made Kodiak Cakes dark chocolate waffles. I added milk to make it more milk chocolatey, ginger cinnamon, vanilla and enough sugar that I didn't need to add on syrup or a topping. It was so crispy, I just held it and munched on it like a cookie.

Today, I used Jiffy cornbread mix and made cornbread waffles. The taste was okay, but the cornbread crumbled too much and flaked all over the waffle maker and between the grids.

What a pain to clean. I'll have to tweak the recipe some more.

 

[Moliphino]

I have this Cinderella waffle maker. The bottom of the waffle looks like a regular Belgian waffle. Holds a lot of syrup!

 

[Imzadi]

I love to make flavored waffles with a fresh fruit sauce.

I've done sweet potato belgian waffles with a warmed maple banana sauce,

Ooo! You just gave me a new idea, sweet potato waffles! I will definitely have to try this. I love sweet potato fries, but way too greasy. . . Although, I just got a new convection oven that seems to air-fry really well.

 

[nw6675]

Crispy Belgian waffle.....yum.

 

[Imzadi]

Does anyone make any savory waffles?

 

[DaisyDuck001]

I don't like chocolate chip waffles, but I like all other waffle flavors. Can be hotel waffles, homemade waffles, frozen waffles, they are all good.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I rarely have them, but I LOVE waffles!

 

[scbruno]

For some reason the only time I eat waffles is when I have Mickey Waffles. eat mostly egg sandwiches.

 

[porschegrl]

This thread inspired me to dust off my waffle maker---quite the chore, as it has been sitting unused for years. I made yeasted waffles. Really convenient to make the batter last night, proof it in the fridge overnight, and then just heat up the waffle iron and get to cooking this morning!

 

[mrodgers]

For some reason the only time I eat waffles is when I have Mickey Waffles. eat mostly egg sandwiches.

I make egg and sausage sandwiches on English muffin. I cook it in bulk frying up the sausage patties buying it 4 lb. at a time and frying up an 18 pack of eggs. Freeze them together and take one out each night for the next morning.

When I cook them, it's a breakfast for dinner night. Usually it's simply pancakes, scrambled eggs, and one or 2 of the sausage patties or bacon if I did that. Love breakfast for dinner, and I do this about once a month. I cook the dinner after I've cooked up the 20 or so sausage patties and, well 16 fried eggs since I am planning on eating 2 scrambled now.