Review on 🥞 Cuisinart Silver Belgian Waffle Iron with Pancake Plates - Single Serve, WAF-300P1 by Alejandro Silem

Words cannot express how much I love this waffle maker. Why on earth aren't they all made with removable panels? I've always insisted on waffle makers that make 4 standard square waffles at once so I can make quick meals for the whole family. But after years of struggling with the cleaning process of the previous two waffle irons, I asked my husband for this one for my birthday. Here's what I like best: 1. The plates are very non-stick. I still brush them with melted butter because every non-stick surface on the market needs some fat (either after washing or just before cooking) and the waffles aren't sticky yet. Sure, we only had it for 3 months, but we used it A LOT in those 3 months.2. The plates are fairly easy to remove, very dishwasher safe and have held up for the last 3 months so far. The bottom of the waffle iron slopes inwards! I had no idea how cool it was until I accidentally overflowed it with batter (my fault, not the waffle makers). The batter dripped onto my countertop instead of being baked on the outside of the waffle iron like my previous waffle irons. The countertop is a lot easier to clean than the side of the waffle maker, so it's a lot more useful than I could have imagined. I never thought I would use pancake platters but my 2 year old loves pancakes so I used them a lot. At first I didn't think the waffles would get crispy either, but then I realized that going higher than setting 4 made them crispier (I was in a hurry and I didn't read or check the instructions). near enough). Waffles turn out beautifully every time.6. Yes, the audio is a bit loud, but I like it. Whatever crazy things are going on around the house, I always hear them, and now I never over-bake my waffles. Here's what I could change if I was in charge of product development: 1. The outside of the waffle maker gets hotter than expected which means you need to be more vigilant with yourself and your kids. I think the little indentations in a pancake plate can help when making eggs for breakfast sandwiches (which I haven't tried), but they don't seem to help much for pancakes. They don't let you control the size of your pancakes, and they make it a bit harder to get a spatula under the pancakes to flip/remove them. I also wish the waffle iron would open flat so you could cook the pancakes on both plates at the same time, just like you would in a skillet (as one of the previous reviewers mentioned). a lot and I would buy it again in a heartbeat because it's the best I've ever had. TO UPDATE! We've had this waffle maker for almost a year now and it's still working! We haven't had any issues (knock on wood) and use the waffle maker at least once every 3 weeks. I also wanted to let everyone know that I tried making pancake sheets to make eggs for breakfast sandwiches and it worked great (much better than making pancakes on them)! We made 12 breakfast rolls from start to finish in 11 minutes. Not bad, right? When the cookies were done in the oven, all the eggs were done too. I probably should have read the instructions for this, but we were in a hurry so I randomly chose setting #3 and it worked fine. I still love this car!