I first discovered Daniel Shumski and his waffle project in early 2010. He was on a mission to waffle everything that could waffle and as an devoted waffler myself, I took an interest. I watched the blog for awhile, before sending him a quick note, asking if he might be interested in a quick guest post featuring my waffle iron collection and a few of my waffle thoughts. He was and published this.
Last fall, Daniel published a book called Will it Waffle that contains more than fifty wonderful things you can waffle beyond a ladle of batter. It makes me long to leap up, pull out one of my two remaining waffle irons (an old vintage model and the Calphalon Belgium version – I gave the other old chrome model to my sister) and start cooking.
This book features ways to use your waffle iron for every meal of the day. There’s waffled french toast, sausage and hash browns for breakfast, gridded grilled cheese for lunch, waffled chicken parm for dinner, as well as salad toppers, side dishes, and desserts. If you happen to have a partner who objects to your waffle maker collection, this book will help you justify their presence in delicious fashion.
Disclosure: The copy of Will it Waffle that is pictured here is a review copy that Workman Publishing sent to me last fall when the book first came out. All my opinions remain my own.
Waffles are my favorite! I love to make BLT’s with them! xx
I live in Texas. The first time I made overnight yeast waffle batter, I got up in the morning to discover it had escaped the bowl and it was, all over the counter!
My kids love waffles! Unfortunately, they are usually of the frozen variety. But the best part is 3-4 mornings a week, my kids request waffles for breakfast and the request is accompanied by the waffle song and dance number: waaa-ffle–laaaaa-tiiii-air! It’s hilarious!
My maternal grandmother made homemade “banana” waffles, oven baked our bacon,and fresh squeezed our orange juice when we stayed overnight!
This feast was often served in bed:)
Four generations and counting,we still love and make her waffles. There was none better.
I have a friend who has notoriously bad taste in men. Whenever a relationship goes belly up she comes over for a wine and movie night and in the morning we make comfort waffles.
When we were little, my dad used to make us pancakes or waffles on Saturday mornings. He always made the batter from scratch and used the waffle iron they got when they were married. Waffles always remind me of my dad.
I’d only had waffles a few times in my entire life (!) but knew I wanted to learn to make them. Then one day at my local thrift store, I found an old Toastmaster waffle maker for two bucks, and I was in business! Not too long after that, I found a Magic Chef Belgian waffle maker at a Goodwill store and couldn’t resist the temptation. Now when I make waffles, I have two waffle makers going at the same time, and it’s always fun to see how the same recipe can come out differently depending on the style of waffle (regular or Belgian).
Canada here – when I was a kid, my parents had a real old fashioned waffle maker – this was the 1950s. Dad was an old logging camp cook so he said he could cook anything. Well he used to fry up his home cured bacon & then lay it across the waffle maker & top it with pancake mix before closing the top. We got to watch the iron as the pancake batter swelled up & pushed the top up as it cooked. When the bell rang, we watched as he opened the top. And every Sunday, we ate those waffles out of the waffle maker because Dad could make them but never figured out how to get them OUT of the waffle maker in less than 20 pieces.
I would love a waffle maker that could make them in one piece.
USA: The first cooking lab in my middle school Foods Technology class was making waffles! My group got a B because one of my partners didn’t set the table correctly. Oh well, the waffles were good, anyway.
on our wedding day, my friends and I all got ready at my parents house,and my brother, his wife and two kids were there. In addition to taking most of the wedding pictures, my brother turned out waffle after waffle and we all sat at my parents huge dining room table and had this wonderful waffle brunch. I had tried hard not to have too many specific dreams for my wedding day, knowing it would be what it would be, but that morning was exactly as I had hoped: wonderful people wandering from the living room to the dining room, in all stages of readiness, doing each other’s hair and makeup and feasting on waffles at whim. I loved it. (I’m in the US) thanks for the chance!
I’m in the US! I love liege style waffles…totally changed my view on waffles.
what a great concept for a book! I do not own a waffle maker because I think pancakes are generally as versatile as waffles, but if there was MORE I could do with a maker. . .
Every first Saturday in February, I borrow waffle irons from my in-laws so we can have waffles and ice cream for breakfast on International Ice Cream for Breakfast Day. It’s a funny winter tradition that my kids adore.
My boyfriend had been longing for a waffle maker and finally decided to get one. The first time we used it we just made basic waffle batter, learning as each spoonful of batter was poured onto the plates. As the first steaming hot, crunchy, crevasses filled with syrup waffle was devoured we looked around the kitchen to see what else we could put in the batter. Blueberries were nice with spots of soft, squishy fruit around the crunch and chocolate chips were amazing! I think we stood at the waffle maker on the counter and ate the entire bowl of batter. I love waffles and will always remember that moment any time I eat them.
I’ve had Will It Waffle checked out from the library for so long I feel like it’s mine! I need my own copy so more people can check it out and learn to waffle it! Thanks for the giveaway and Greetings from Nashville, TN USA!
Since my husband is gluten free, we hadn’t had waffles in years, but he loves them. I found a GF recipe to make for his birthday- had to get a waffle iron and everything! They turned out really well, and now we are exploring what else we can do with the waffle maker. I love that this kind of cookbook exists.
The best waffle I ever had was inspired by Elvis. Banana, peanut butter, bacon: it was incredible!
Oooos. Me! Me!
I love waffles and have never had a successful attempt at making them.
I’ve tried several borrowed waffle makers. From the ancient pre-nonstick days (that waffles had to be removed in pieces from the griddles, to the more recent non-stick ones (raw or burnt).
I just bought a Cuisinart 5 in 1 griddler for 50% off when a local big chain super market decided to leave their location and marked everything down. I bought the waffle maker plates off amazon.
I so want to make waffles. I love waffles. I even bought some belgian pearl sugar on amazon so I could use a real recipe.
Waffles were written up in Cook’s Illustrated.
I want to make waffles. I need to make waffles. I need to eat waffles.
I would really like this book.
I would love one!!!!
i love waffles, but have yet to venture much beyond the basic. would love to receive a copy of this book!
Before I discovered “Will It Waffle”, my boyfriend and I found a waffle iron at a yard sale. Normally, this wouldn’t have been a notable experience, but the seller decided to give us the iron for free simply on the basis that my boyfriend was wearing a kilt that day. What a crazy random happenstance.
I’ve made so many things in that iron, from carrot cake to personal waffle pizzas.
I had a “will it waffle?” experiment with leftover pizza for breakfast. It was amazing! I will never try to reheat pizza in the toaster oven again..
I am a US resident who would LOVE to have this book in my kitchen. My husband had to switch to a gluten free diet about 2 years ago because of a wheat allergy that was making him more and more ill after eating anything with wheat in it. Having this book would give me some great new ideas to try (he can be pretty picky about what he eats and is not a big fan of very many healthy foods), and would make cooking him new things to try really easy — we have a waffle maker sitting in our kitchen closet that we’d love to get more use out of. He has one brand of frozen GF waffle that he eats almost every morning, so I’m sure he’d like to mix it up and find something that tastes better!
My friends have been doing this for years! They need this book!
I love making waffles, but my breakfasts are usually on the run. I would love to have more ways to use the waffle iron during other points in the day.
I love waffles and can’t wait to try waffling something else – just need to decide what to start with…. (I live in Canada).
My niece got me a Mickey Mouse waffle maker while I was in Florida visiting and now whenever I make waffles in it I am reminded of her 🙂
I did recently scored a vintage cast iron waffle maker and base and am in the process of cleaning it up. I’m so excited! I’ve been looking for one (reasonably priced) for years!
USA – I remember mom making square cornmeal waffles to serve as base for chipped beef gravy instead of toast! These days, we have square & Belgian waffle makers. I was quite excited to see the ‘will it waffle’ blog turn into a book.
Also, La Quinta hotels in Texas have rotating waffle-makers that make Texas-shaped waffles!!
US
I inherited my grandmother’s antique waffle iron…..with a braided cloth covered electric cord. I am always scared to plug it in, but it makes the best waffles!
US resident here – one of my boys’ favorite things about family trips is the hotel continental breakfast that includes waffles made on those super-cool rotating waffle makers. I just saw in my BHG magazine that Osterizer has them, & I am not sure if I should buy one for home or keep benefitting from the occasional hotel perk.
I don’t think I have any waffle stories! I did very much love the waffle blog (and his previous blog, Fruit Slinger!), and have been wanting this book since he first announced it.
My sis gave me a waffle iron last Christmas and I love it. I make chocolate-chip waffles all the time, and I’ve also made waffle hash browns, Devils food cake waffles, and my own version of fa-waffels. Would love this book!
Had a blackout and all we had to eat was leftover waffles I had made in the morning. It was the best thing, sitting quiet in the dark eating waffles.
When my daughter was in grade together the book Everything on a Waffle by Paula Horvath. It had some great recipes that went together with each chapter adventure. My daughter is 20 now, and I would love to surprise her with this book!
Canada. My waffle.iron is sadly underutilized. Chocolate nut waffles are my favorite when I do bring it out.
US: Waffles! I recently pulled out my Waffle maker because I realized I hasn’t used it in over a year. In order to save it from the Goodwill pile, I spent a whole week just making waffles. Waffles with peaches were my favorite, but Waffle sandwiches will pulled pork were a close second! I’d love to learn all the other options too!
My girlfriend and I made the waffled croque madames from the Will it Waflle site with Croissant dough, it was amazing.
From the US.
I fell in love with waffling the first time that I made my own waffles at a hotel.
I’m in Canuckland (Canada)! When I was a kid, we’d get waffles with strawberries & ice cream as a special treat. Soooooo decadent & yummy!!
my niece and nephew were visiting and I made waffles for breakfast, but I used a new recipe, and it overflowed, all over the counter, the cabinets, and the floor. oops! but the waffles were delicious 🙂 and I’m in the US
We love to waffle and my 9 year old thinks that breakfast waffles make much better finger food than knife and fork food so they are usually eaten out of hand by her as soon as they are cool enough to touch. We’ve got pumpkin waffle fixings lined up for tomorrow. We would be over the moon to receive Daniel’s book – thanks for the chance! (USA)
That looks like a fantastic book! My husband loves waffles…I’d love to go to Belgium to try some there 🙂
My mom made the best waffles! She always made them for my grandmother’s birthday. We have pictures of my gran in front of a stack of waffles with candles ready for her to blow out.
I would love to try the Fawaffle. Two of my favorite foods put together – waffles and falafel.
We had waffles most Sunday mornings when I was growing up. My mom had the Joy of Cooking recipe memorized and we loved mixing the batter with her. We had a really old waffle iron that had small (not Belgian style) holes. I’ve since gotten used to Belgian waffles, but it took me a long time to adjust. I have such wonderful memories associated with waffles. (I’m in the U.S. Thanks for the giveaway!)
My son gave me a waffle iron for Christmas. He is studying in Belgium and has fallen in love with waffles. Sorry to say, the waffle iron is still in the box. I need to get proficient with it before he comes home for the summer.
I love waffles! This book is so exciting to me. When we bought a house it didn’t come with appliances. We moved in before the delivery day so our meal couldn’t involve a stove or oven. So we had waffles. It was very sweet.
My dad did not like to cook but he would cook waffles every Sunday morning before church for all of us kids. I have fond memories of him standing over our old waffle iron with the little squares. USA
I was lucky enough to support Daniel’s kickstarter for his local food/jam blog (pre-waffling fame) and receive a 1/2 pint of sour cherry preserves from him in Chicago. Congrats to him on publishing and I’ll make a sour cherry topped waffle to celebrate 🙂
I love in te US and would LOVE this book! I’ve been hearing about it and it seems very cool. I really want falafel waffles!
Everybody eats green-tinted Irish Cream Waffles with stout-maple syrup on St. Patrick’s Day, don’t they? 🙂 Anyway, it’s a tradition in my house. Imagine what I could do with this book??
One time, my wife made waffles with sugar pearls. They were yummy.
Last year on the 24th of July (Pioneer Day here in Utah) I hosted the first annual waffle fest. I pulled out two of my waffle irons, invited the neighborhood and family members and set up on the back porch. We had two kinds of waffles (whole grain buttermilk and Williams Sonoma mix) with toppings from fruit to Nutella. It was a great success; I served over 100 waffles and we had a blast. We’re doing it again this year. I love using my waffle iron for all sorts of things and would love to add this charming book to my collection!
I live in the US and have a vintage waffle iron, but it seems like the waffles always stick.
One of the best books i have read with my daughter is Everything on a Waffle. An amazing book for older kids and adults.
United States of America
My family and I have made waffles virtually every Sunday for dinner for over twenty years. I would love to win this cookbook and learn some new ways to use my favorite small appliance!
This would be perfect for Mother’s day as she just bought herself a new waffle iron! I of course, would invite myself over for this event!
Every time I make waffles for breakfast…usually on a Saturday morning…I think of my sister who gave us the waffle iron for a wedding gift! (21 years ago and still going strong)
(US)
Oh my…I can’t think of a good waffle story. I know that whenever we are decluttering our kitchen, my husband and I always ask each other about the waffle maker. We don’t actually make waffles all that often, so it’d probably be a good item to get rid of, but neither of us can bear to part with it. Maybe this book will help that waffle iron earn it’s place in our kitchen! (we’re in the u.s.)
I live in Canada and wish that I could make entire meals in my waffle iron. My original waffle iron (a wedding gift 12 years ago) stopped working last year and I spent 2 months researching its replacement. Besides waffles, I have made French toast and bacon hash browns.
It never occurred to me to “waffle” other food! I’m dying to try this.
Never made a waffle in my life, but would love to try.
Washington, USA Years ago I went to an all you can eat brunch and had a Belgian waffle for dessert and everyone thought I was crazy! It was worth all the unwanted attention!
First, I have to get the rest of the Fawaffle laughs out of my system: haaa–haaa-waahaaaa!!!!! I am so trying that the next time I make falafels.
Growing up, we always had waffles on New Year’s Day in time to sit with breakfast in front of the TV and watch the Rose Parade. I still try to do it if I’m not working. Mine are often more adventurous than the Krusteaz version we had back then, and a whole cookbook filled with waffle ideas makes me wish it was the last week of December again. (But I do make waffles more than once a year.) …US
We host a group of six once a month for knitting, chatting and lunch. We call ourselves the Loopy Ladies. In January our lunch was can you waffle it. We did shrimp quesadillas, omelets, bacon, and tattor tots, and chocolate chip cookies.
We are in USA
Hi from central FL, USA – my waffle tale is the “make from scratch” batter that I forgot to add the baking powder, so mine were flatter than a cracker
I live in the US, about 40 miles from the Canadian border. The last two years 3 to 5 households get together for a potluck followed by watching Downton Abbey. Each year we had two waffle irons and two different waffle batters for one of the potluck meals. It was a lot of fun to see the different add-ons people brought to serve with waffles. I am sure we’ll eat waffles at home long before the next season of Downton Abbey begins.
I only recently bought my first waffle iron and am exploring different recipes for waffles, and also different ways to use the waffle iron! Multi-tasking at its best!
California. Waffles were THE breakfast for my sons and their high school soccer team before the big game – state championship. This breakfast was at our home – waffle irons were hot and the team was served in no time. Couldn’t win the game without the waffles. Now I’m ready to dust off my iron and waffle up everything, after reading this post.
That book looks worth it just for the “fawaffle”!
My favorite photo of visiting my cousins in France as a little girl: eating big, fluffy, confectioner sugar doused gaufres (French yeast waffles) from a little food truck down by the ocean shore in Brittany. We were all sitting in a row on the wheel bumper in our wild 70’s print pants– mine were Garanimal Giraffes — and none of us were paying any attention to the camera — just scarfing waffles in the windy sea air. Awesome. I still remember how good they tasted.
Much like Leslie Knope, I love waffles, but we use our waffle iron embarrassingly infrequently. It is admittedly a crappy one…
I am pretty much the worst breakfast cook because I get low blood sugar and turn into Ms. Cranky Monster if I don’t eat fairly quickly after waking up. I get impatient with pancakes and turn up the heat so they are both burnt and undercooked, it took years for me to learn that scrambled eggs need to be cooked slowly to be soft and fluffy, and I need to eat breakfast first if I am to be civil at the brunch table. About the only fancy breakfast thing that I could actually make consistently well was waffles, because you cannot take the waffles out before the light changes color (believe me, I tried) and so they are relatively impatience-proof. Plus, did you know that the serving size for maple syrup is 1/4 cup? Because it is. Go check.
My Mom made waffles for us all the time as a kid, usually for dinner. I got my first waffle iron as a wedding gift over 42 years ago and it finally died on me about two years ago. Now that my kids are grown, I do not make waffles but would if I had more ideas for them. This cookbook sounds like a wonderful way to start making waffles again. Also, think I will give my two kids waffle irons and cookbooks for their birthdays!Thanks!
I really made a mess once when trying to make waffles. My batter must have been a bit too thin since when I put it in the maker and it started to cook I had waffle batter running all over my counter. I’m from the US. Thanks for the chance.
My mother in law gave me my first waffle iron, and electric model from the 1950’s, I used to make a huge amount of waffles and freeze them to be put in the toaster; I think this was around the time when frozen supermarket waffles were rather expensive. The first time I used it, I put way too much batter in it–what a mess!
I make sweet potato waffles from Simply in Season regularly, enough to justify my keeping the unitasking waffle iron, but this book would certainly help me up my game!
I am in the US. The first time I made waffles for my three small sons I put a plate with a waffle in front of my oldest who exclaimed “how did you do that to my pancake?!”. He was then delighted at how much syrup it help for him and has been a waffle lover ever since ( he’s 30+ now ).
I’m gluten free, so my options for store-bought waffles are limited, and restaurants are right out. I haven’t been able to justify buying my own waffle maker yet, but this book would go a long way toward that! (I’m in the U.S.)
We were hungry and had nothing to heat grilled cheese sandwiches until I thought of my mom’s old waffle iron. Years ago and now it’s in vogue…
I have “borrowed” my mom’s waffle maker long-term, which was the best idea ever! I just make sure to invite her over pretty often for waffle brunch!
Thanks from the US!
I will never forget the liege waffles in Brussels.
I’m a USA girl and my daughter is begging for waffles, so sometime this week we’ll be having them. I’d love to surprise her and make them for a meal other than breakfast, but have never ventured out beyond typical waffles (yeasted ones are my fav, but we’ve got ahandful of loved recipes). This book sounds like a blast!
Fawaffle! Love it!
My battered real waffles are always a disaster. Perhaps I could try some other recipes!
I want to waffle some turkey stuffing until it is crisp, then have lots of nooks and crannies for gravy! Yum!
Wow those recipes are amazing
waffles are my grandsons favorite food. they would eat them for every meal.
Someday I’ll win. Someday I’ll win.
My son just got a Snoopy/Woodstock/Snoopy’s House waffle maker for his birthday!
Several friends and I made waffles on stage at the DEFCON conference each year as part of our panel as a fundraiser for the EFF.
My 8 year old got up this morning to make waffles for the family “by feel” (without a recipe) and they turned out great. I’d love to give him this book and inspire new waffle creations.
I’ve eaten some amazing grilled cheese waffle sandwiches from a food truck. USA
As a child I made waffles from scratch. Yes, whip the egg whites scratch. Then my dad died when I was twelve. Our lives totally changed and I never made them again. Well, that sure popped out of the old memory bank. :-/
i have followed will it waffle guru blog for many many years …
Then he sadly dissappeared for a while… I am So exited that the book is out and WIW is once again present on FB …i’ve lost my cooking mojo and I need the cooking inspiration that waffling created … Please consider me for the cook book
Nancy Silverton’s sourdough waffles have made me legendary with my friends. USA
I loved weekend waffles when I was growing up. I need to get a waffle maker and continue this tradition with my family.
My daughter’s home living class had a waffle creation contest. I can’t wait to win this book!!!
I LOVE waffles! Just reading about these waffle recipes reminds me of a restaurant my husband and I went to, probably 5 years ago now. Our kids were little and we had a rare kid-free evening. We ordered a waffle sundae (ice cream and toppings on top of an actual, fluffy waffle), and both of us said, “Why have we never thought of this before?” Oh gosh, now I am craving waffles and ice cream! 🙂
One of the things my Core French students love doing most is making and eating waffles. They have to decipher the French recipe, mix the batter, and we run a couple waffle irons. My senior students make enough to feed my juniors, too, so we freeze the waffles, and the next day we toast them, and then students have to choose which toppings they want (fruit, whipped cream, syrups) and “order” in French!
I’m in Canada, and am ridiculously excited that there’s a Canadian copy.
Waffles! Chocolate chip waffles topped with strawberries and whipped cream. Best birthday breakfast ever. Looks like an awesome book.
I remember going to a diner type restaurant one time that had waffle in it’s name (and “house” was the other half of the name). I ordered a waffle and it was a terrible waffle, uncooked in the middle. You would think I place with that name would make a good waffle. I’ve never been back to that place since. I’ve had my little corning waffle maker for almost 20 years now. And I love it.