I bought a piece of 1.5 inch stiff foam to try to fix a sag in a bed. It didn’t work but having that thick piece of solid foam around has been a life saver.
Need something flat to put a laptop on? Throw it on the foam. Going to be doing something that requires you to be on your knees for a while? Get the foam!
It went from stupid purchase to something I’d gladly replace if it broke.
I just got a 5 in 1 grill/griddle with removable plates and a set of waffle plates to go with them. I already had a Foreman grill and waffle maker, but a) they both suck to clean, so removable plates are nice, b) I’m replacing two small appliances with one, so overall save space, and c) the new one has better temperature controls and can open up flat to serve as two cooking surfaces instead of just being an open or closed press cooker.
Also, a waffle maker is far from useless. You can make those other things manually, but in my experience, if I try to make waffles without a waffle maker, I just end up with pancakes. The batter refuses to stay in the grid shape no matter how much I yell and swear at it.
Yeah honestly, wafflemaker is one of those things that if you want waffles not in frozen form, that’s pretty much your only choice. If there is a manual way to do it, I’m honestly scared of the person who worked out how and what they have to do to make it happen.
I am tempted by your grill, though. Hmm.
If you do get one, I just noticed that the one I got doesn’t have a double hinge, so I’m not sure how effective the top plate will be (it was just delivered yesterday and I haven’t used it yet). I’ll try it, but I wish I had looked more for a double hinged one (or is it a loose hinge I want? Not sure what it’s called, but my Foreman grill can lift a bit on the hinge side so that it can sit more flat on top of food).
That said, the market for multi function heating presses with changeable plates is disappointingly light on options right now.
The “manual” way (aka not electric) was just one of these that goes on your stove top. :)
waffle irons are the “old school way” , just a iron waffle press that goes on the stove