Back in the day when the George Foreman Grill was all the rage for countertop appliances, I was forever using the waffle maker plate that came with the grill. Sure, I made waffles with those ...

A waffle-maker is, in my mind, a luxury — a piece of kitchen equipment that doesn’t have the multiple uses of, say, a blender, or the everyday nature of a coffee machine. But what’s become ...