ChefSteps Behind the Scenes: Waffle Iron Frenzy

Summary by Krater

The ChefSteps team experiments with cooking various foods—including ham and cheese sandwiches, hum bao, quesadillas, brownies, dumplings, and birthday cake batter—inside a waffle iron, concluding with mixed results.

From the video

Answers: What happens when you cook different foods in a waffle iron?

• cooking in a waffle iron
• waffled ham and cheese sandwich
• waffled quesadilla
• waffled brownie mix
• waffled gyoza
• waffled birthday cake

Ingredients

• ham
• cheese
• hum bao
• tortilla
• 100 g Betty Crocker Dark Chocolate brownie mix
• 75 g oil
• 65 g water
• egg
• funfetti cake batter
• gyoza
• sesame oil
• mac and cheese
• Reese's Peanut Butter Cup cookie dough

What it concludes

• Waffled gyoza creates cavities that trap vinegar and soy sauce when you put it on.
• Waffled mac and cheese gets nice and crusty with cheese fries up in there.
• Waffled quesadillas are crunchy, crispy, and gooey in the middle.
• Gluten-free Mexican casserole cooked in a waffle iron is a complete failure that should never be repeated.
• Waffled ham and cheese is a solid start, and the cheese gets nicely toasted.