Cooking

See this thing here? It’s a waffle. And you can kind of tell from the measly size of it that it’s stupid. But there’s more stupidity behind this waffle than meets the eye. Or maybe it’s a stupid waffle iron?

We decided to buy a waffle iron last month since B had a leftover Macy’s gift card to use, but despite reading the instructions carefully and attempting to make delicious waffles THREE TIMES with THREE DIFFERENT RECIPES, it still wouldn’t work properly. The waffles would cook perfectly on the outside, but not enough inside so that when you’d open the iron, it would just split in two. ANNOYING.

I thought it was the recipes I was picking and I was even losing faith in Mark Bittman (who had an easy overnight yeast waffle recipe that I wanted to impress my high school friends with) but I had no idea what we were doing wrong. Why was it sticking and splitting in half?? Whyyyyyy???

It turns out that nonstick spray makes it work perfectly, hence the photo above. It was almost retarded about how easily the waffle came out, without the stress and fuss and poking all previous ones caused.

And before you guys all go “DUH you’re such an idiot,” here’s the problem: the instruction manual specifically stated to not use nonstick spray. This doesn’t make sense, since a quick coat of PAM made the final waffle turn out so perfectly? Ugh.

Fuck you, Bella Cucina, for your conflicting instruction manuals that have already ruined three breakfasts. I’m Pamming the shit out of this iron from now on, whether I’m using it or not.