I had a white, plastic lidded waffle maker for years. The place I bought it, Lechmere, went bust long ago. Now I have a metal lidded one that is about 10 years old and slowly dying...
For some reason I had different recipes for waffle and pancake batter for years. I now use the same for both which seems to amaze my family. Last weekend I made plain pancakes and waffles AND blueberry pancakes and waffles (my youngest has decided she does not like blueberries).
I have not tried the muffin trick yet but it makes sense. Everyone is putting everything in a muffin tin these days. The hot new thing in NYC is mufagles - a bagel baked in a muffin tin. I've also seen people breathless at "duffins" or doughnuts in muffin tins even though KAF did that years ago and bakeries here in Hartfordland (which usually lags the rest of the world) was selling those as dirt bombs for years before I moved here.
BTW, another new thing is bagel holes. Has anyone here cut bagels? I've always made ropes and then joined the ends together in circles.
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