waffle iron
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cooking appliance used to make waffles
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- clamshell design
- Image
- Stroopwafelijzer.jpg
- Has use
- waffle
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- Commons category
- Waffle irons
- exact match
- wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/04542943-n
- Cooperative Patent Classification code
- A47J 37/0611
- different from
- pie iron
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Encyclopedic overview
Electric waffle maker. Waffle iron held over a fire in Pieter Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, 1559 A waffle iron or waffle maker is a kitchen utensil used to cook waffles between two hinged metal plates. Both plates have gridded indentations to shape the waffle from the batter or dough placed between them. The plates are heated and the iron is closed while the waffle bakes. Waffles are a quick bread with a light and sweet flavor, similar to pancakes. Their appearance is much harder to achieve than a pancake's without a waffle iron. Similar technology is employed to bake wafers, and several other snacks including kue gapit, a waffle-shaped but crunchy Indonesian snack which can be made with both sweet and savoury flavours.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “waffle iron” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.