If you’ve purchased a vertical waffle maker, maybe you’ve already figured out the trick to making the perfect vertical waffles. Last year we were wandering around Costco, and my kids just HAD to have this Cuisinart vertical waffle maker when they saw it (and it was on sale). It was nearing Christmas, so I caved in and bought it for them, even though we have a perfectly good and functional waffle maker at home already. I figured that letting them have their own special waffle maker means that the OLD waffle maker is now free for me to experiment with, so I can make things like cheddar chive waffle hash browns (SO good!) without them complaining that I’ve “ruined the flavor” of our waffle maker (which really did happen, even though I cleaned the waffle maker after that experiment … my son is insanely sensitive to variations in flavor and even a hint of chive and cheese was NOT welcome in his waffle experience).
My daughter and I both love to pile on the fruit when we have waffles, but my son does NOT like fruit on his waffles. He likes his waffles a nice crunchy golden brown, no fruit, just butter and syrup. Today, he did consent to letting me butter and syrup his waffle so I could take some pics, since I was a little grumbly about making them waffles when our kitchen was a disaster and I hadn’t even finished my normal morning self-care rituals. Having to look up the recipe when I hadn’t ever posted it was a little extra grumble. I refer to my own recipes all the time, so I can reproduce them just like we like them and this one hadn’t bubbled to the top in priority until today.
Before we purchased this vertical waffle maker, we did our research and read lots of reviews. Some people were unhappy with the vertical waffle maker, but it appears they didn’t take care to alter their waffle batter recipe to make the batter thinner. Well, I wasn’t going to make THAT mistake! I was a little nervous that I wouldn’t get the batter right, but I didn’t like the recipes I found in the Cuisinart booklet they provided with the waffle maker. So I turned to our tried-and-true recipe and did a few adjustments and realized that I need not have worried. The waffles turned out perfect and the waffle maker worked beautifully and the kids loved their waffles. All I did to my original recipe was add an extra egg (because our eggs are kind of small and I wanted to make sure the waffles were nice and fluffy), an extra Tablespoon of butter (because we’re using Kerrygold grass-fed butter now, so I’m not scared to use butter anymore), and an extra 1/4 cup of milk.
The batter was nice and thin, closer to pancake batter in texture, but still fluffy. I noticed it worked best when I poured the batter in nice and slow, which gave the batter time to seep into the cracks and crevices of the vertical waffle maker.
A side-note for those of you who want to buy or already have the Cuisinart vertical waffle maker: my son and I have decided putting the waffle maker on setting 4 is the perfect setting for just the right touch of brown with a little bit of crisp, but not overly crunchy.
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