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cheaply built but not priced
I liked this company's VillaWare V2003 UNO Petite Heart Waffler but this item broke the first time I used it. Too much plastic. Poor design. I did manage to keep it together for several uses but the waffles stuck badly each time despite all the flawless waffles made on their other product.
[Friday, September 05, 2008]
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Painful experience
If you're ready for a nice Sunday morning waffle and relax with the morning newspaper - then don't buy this - you'll spend an hour shaking your fist at it, peeling the waffle in pieces off of it. It worked fine for about 3 months, and then gradually got worse to the point that the waffle would never extract. Yes it looks nicer than the Waring, but the objective is to make good waffles every time - and this thing fails miserably.
[Thursday, August 28, 2008]
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Darn Good Wafflemaker
This is our fourth "Gravity" waffler. We have not experienced the early heating outage reported by others, though our third one died in the middle of Sunday morning breakfast after many years of faithful once-a-week service. Yes, Belgian waffles EVERY Sunday morning--a ritual!
Our first two Gravity wafflers suffered from a flimsy projection that freed the rotating assembly to rotate. The third one never had this problem, and the fourth one has shown no hint of it either, after a month or two.
The built-in timer is almost useless, unless you like undercooked waffles. We like ours crispy and lightly browned on the outside, and still moist on the inside, so I crank the heat all the way up and cook the waffles for 4.5 - 4.75 minutes. Krusteaz makes a terrific Belgian waffle mix, which I supplement with vanilla extract, almond extract, and usually a small amount of lemon extract. Then we drown them in 100% pure maple syrup and occasionally wild blueberries and Cracker Barrel's wild blueberry syrup (actually, Dickinson's syrup that we buy at Cracker Barrel).
The Gravity waffler makes the tallest waffles of any wafflemaker I've been able to find. The construction is much more solid than the Waring "flip" wafflemaker, and the staff at Williams-Sonoma said that the WillaWare Gravity wafflemaker significantly outperformed the much more expensive Kitchenaid wafflemaker.
Yes, it's huge and takes up a lot of cabinet space. Our previous waffler was a regular VillaWare round waffler that made the same diameter waffles, but not as tall. The old waffler had a footprint of about 2 inches x 8 inches and about 8 inches tall, so it would fit almost anywhere. The Gravity waffler is 15 inches wide by 9 inches deep by 9 inches tall!
We love ours!!
[Tuesday, June 24, 2008]
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