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Restaurant-style Waffles!
I recently stayed in a Seattle hotel whose brunch buffet featured a do it yourself waffle bar. The professional waffle maker featured a rotary system that intrigued me--you poured in your batter, rotated the cooking plates, and when the light came on, rotated it back and removed your waffle. This rotary gizmo seemed to make the waffles cook very evenly and crisply.

I set off on a quest to find my OWN rotary waffle maker. I purchased this Krups waffle maker and have been very happy with it. While not quite as heavy duty as the restaurant version I used in Seattle, this is a FINE waffle maker. Here are some of its features:

1) Very well made. Very solid. All parts fit precisely. It has a heavy, durable quality that makes me think it will last me the rest of my life.

2) Easy to clean. The cooking plates remove for easy cleaning. The drip pan snaps in and out very easily and keeps batter from oozing onto your counter.

3) Fun and easy to use. Your brunch guests will be wowed as they watch you rotate your waffle maker! It really does a superior job at making waffles. All the recipes I've tried so far have come out great (even the recipes in the owner's manual--more on that later).

Note that the editor's comments concerning the lights are not quite correct. There are two lights on the top of the unit. One glows red while it is heating, and the other light glows green when the unit is ready to use. The light does NOT come on when the waffle is finished cooking, which makes sense because while the waffle is cooking, the lights are ON THE BOTTOM OF THE UNIT WHERE YOU CAN'T SEE THEM! However, it doesn't take long to figure out how long to cook the waffles after a test one turns out too brown or too light.

4) Easy to store. The handle folds up so you can pop this into a cabinet.

The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is the owner's manual. Maybe it's a translation problem (I assume the original was in German), but the recipes are bizarre.

First of all, American cooks will be disconcerted by the fact that amounts of flour, sugar, butter, etc., are given by weight, not volume (grams, not cups). But anyone with a kitchen scale can adjust to that. But there are other problems.

One of the recipes doesn't give a quantity for salt, it just says "add salt."

Another recipe doesn't give a quantity for sugar, butter, or flour, just says "add same weight as eggs." I weighed the five eggs (255 grams) and added that much sugar, butter, and flour. The recipe thus contained about two cups flour, two cups sugar, and two cups butter with no other liquid than the five eggs. Made kind of a thick, gritty batter that looked more like cake batter than waffle batter. The waffles cooked perfectly, but boy were they strange!! Kind of gritty from all that sugar. I hate to think how many calories they contained!

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It worked for almost a year under heavy usage, but not very well.
To be fair, we are probably not the target market for this unit; I am a frequent cook, and it gets used at least once or twice a day. Unfortunately, we live in a studio apartment, and this is what our landlord provided.

First the good:
It didn't die for nearly a year, it does get hot, and the left (1000W) burner is pretty adequate.

Now the bad:
The right (500W) burner is largely useless, and there is no chance of it ever boiling water. The burners are also too close together to use both at once, anyhow. The thermostat is terrible (it's on or off, and their effort at temperature control is a bad joke). Finally, after a bit over a year, the burner stopped turning off. (Well, it turns off sometimes, but then it goes back on in the middle of the night. See the previous review, in which the same problem is described by someone else.) I realize the instructions say to unplug it when it is not in use, but let's be honest- who is going to do that if they use this every day? I'd rather not burn down our apartment because the burner is on all day, and it's a huge waste of electricity.

This might be inexpensive, but sometimes, you get what you paid for.

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Lousy germination
My children and I ordered a selection of really fun seeds from you. (Hmong Red Cucumber
Black Sea Man Tomato, Rare Tigger Melon, Mexican Miniature Watermelon, Toga Striped Eggplant, Purple Cauliflower, Unwins Exhibiton 7 Pound Onion, Rare Red Bull Brussels Sprout)

My germination rate has been about 25% or less. All my other seeds from other companies are doing wonderful on my tables, but my Hirt's seeds are in a category of their own, small, stunted, wimpy, or not at all. I will not be ordering from you again, and I'm sorry I wasted my money.

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Good product, but the price can be lowered
The panel is about $7 to $8 each in retail store without shipping cost. Add together, this is not a good deal.

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Me and my husband love horses..We found these really easy to use when it comes to dinner.They are nice and big, makes it more comfortable to eat...

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