• arcine@jlai.lu
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    4 days ago

    I can’t believe someone made this waffle iron and didn’t make a YouTube video about making it. It has to be a Photoshop x)

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Im a dipper. You put the syrup where you want it yourself. Do not rely on some fancy designed skillet to feed you the way you deserve.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      The big perk of waffles is the surface area results in a lot of crispy with some fluffy. The fact that it holds syrup is just a perk

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    1 month ago

    It’s only more efficient when the containing square is large enough that there would be wasted space on the edges if the inner squares were lined up as a grid. The outer square of the waffle iron is almost but not quite large enough to fit a 4x5 grid. People losing their minds over this weird configuration being “more efficient” think it’s because it’s more efficient than a grid where all the space is used, which is not what this would be.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah, there’s a lot of unused space there. Or just look at the gap in the middle of that row of 4. A slightly smaller square could have fit a 5x5, even.

      It’s a novelty, not an optimization.

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    1 month ago

    I am sad because these squares look very out of place, unlike hexagons which are beautiful and perfect and never cause problems whatsoever, ever ever!

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        1 month ago

        Unrelated, but as a Hungarian, this association of waffles with syrup is so odd to see. Syrup is basically just sugar and water, isn’t it? Sounds pretty boring. As a kid we always put nutella on waffles 🤷

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          We don’t put plain sugar syrup on waffles, we use maple syrup or sometimes a fruit syrup such as blueberry. Maple syrup has a very distinctive flavor.

          I checked out your link: this home made syrup is interesting but I’ve never heard of anyone doing this.

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        1 month ago

        Good point. Pesky square-cube law gets me again. Having done three minutes of research on Wikipedia pages I didn’t fully understand, I think changing the square divots to spherical ones will give us the smallest surface area-to-volume ratio.

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    1 month ago

    Pfft, let me know when “Big Waffle” develops its own proprietary 6-nanometer syrup squares. Until then I will defer to the Belgians and their superior waffle technology.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Those fat Belgian waffles have nothing on the Dutch stroopwafel technology coming out of asml