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3 reasons why to choose a Croquade Belgian Waffle Maker
What is an outstanding Waffle Maker
A good wafflemaker is the one allowing you to make the most uniform baking of waffles. Nothing is worst than spending hours making waffles or obtaining a waffle that’s more baked on one side. The color of the waffle should be the same on both sides. This seems obvious but very few waffle makers actually guaranty this.
Several physical/heating mechanisms are at the origin of this :
- First of all, the heating parts (the two pieces actually becoming hot with electricity) are never perfectly the same. Our parts are high quality spare parts made/ designed to decrease the potential variance between the two pieces. Low quality parts however will present an important temperature gap (more than 20°C)
- Secondly, heat goes always up so the bottom heating part is heating the baking plate but the upper heating part is trying to heat... the top cover and not the plate. If the top heating part is the one with the lower temperature due to point 1, the effect is reinforced and it becomes a disaster
- Thirdly, cheap thermostats will modify the temperature of the plate too often and temperature gaps may appear during cooking with a poor final result on the waffles
What are the 3 reasons to choose a Croquade Waffle Maker ?
1. Technically
To compensate as much as possible the effects depicted above, Croquade Waffle Makers present the following characteristics:
- Our waffle makers are equipped with very thick plates in die casted alluminium. This extreme thickness allow the baking plates to have a better inertia and to avoid modification of temperature inside the plates. This means perfect cooking
- Our waffle makers should be flipped every round of waffles (when the waffles are baked half way, flip the waffle maker and finish baking ) to avoid the issue of the temperature going into the top cover
- Our thermostats, very high quality ones, guarantee a comfortable cooking
2. The quality
The multex model is today more than 50 years old and has only marginally evolved during this time. This model has been initially developed by the company NOVA Electro that went bankrupt during the 90’s and Croquade acquired the know-how and the industrial tooling to be able to continue the sales of those products. This waffle maker is the best seller of all-time in Belgium and is still leading the market far above the following models.
This is the waffle maker of each Belgian grandma. Having a 50 years old waffle maker is also a sign of reliability with many products still working after 30, 40, 50 years. The measurement of our reliability is simple, our default rate in Belgium is less than 0,5%.....do you know any products that do better?
3. The Baking plates for all waffles
With 8 different baking plates today, you can cook all Belgians specialities:
1. Giant Brussels Waffle Plate
With this plate, your will not only bake the giant brussel’s waffles with « crème chantilly », chocolates or fruits on it but also « les gaufres de Lièges » (luikse waffles) with the bloc of sugar inside and half of it dipped in chocolate afterwards.
2. Traditional Belgian Waffle Plate
With these baking plates, you can cook two luscious traditional specialties.
3. Galettes Waffle Plate
This cast-aluminum attachment for the Croquade waffle maker makes it easy to bake traditional galettes at home. Galettes are traditionally enjoyed with coffee and make an excellent dessert.
4. Fine Galette Waffle plate (Gaufrette)
This cast-aluminum attachment for the Croquade waffle maker makes it easy to bake traditional extra-fine galettes at home. Thin, crisp galettes are traditionally enjoyed with coffee and make an excellent dessert.
5. Croque Monsieur and Toast Waffle Plate
This cast-aluminum attachment for the Croquade waffle maker makes it easy to enjoy the classic French ham and cheese sandwich at home.
6. Croquade Heart Waffle Plate
This cast-aluminum attachment for the Croquade waffle maker makes it easy to bake delicious heart-shaped waffles at home. Heart-shaped waffles are a fun way to start any morning and are great topped with powdered sugar, fresh strawberries, chocolate sauce and more
7. Ice Cream Waffle Cone Plate
This cast-aluminum attachment for the Croquade waffle maker makes it easy to make herself her own ice cream cones to the inimitable taste. This provides immense joy and satisfaction. The ice cream cone is actually a thin round waffle which is rolled around a wooden stick when it is still hot and still malleable so wish.
8. Salty Waffle Plate
This cast-aluminum attachment for the Croquade waffle maker to prepare delicious filled waffles (eg Fruit: apricots, cherries, but also chocolate, biscuit, mascarpone, etc.). We are very proud to be the only ones to offer this plate worldwide for individuals. With this baking plate, there is no limit to your creativity because all “salty” waffles are also possible: for example, goat cheese and bacon, everything is permitted. Your one and only limit is your imagination.
