Ten Foods You Can Cook In Your Waffle Maker

The waffle iron is seemingly the most useless appliance in the kitchen, spending most of its time gathering dust in the cabinet, and unless you run a Bread & Breakfast you probably wonder why you even own one.

Of course, that feeling goes right out the window when you dig in to a stack of delicious waffles, the iron earning a reprieve once again, but wouldn't it be nice to put that iron to work more often?

Well, as you'll see in Lifehacker's Top 10 Surprising Foods You Can Make In Your Waffle Iron you can make all kinds of delicious stuff with that hot iron press, from hash browns to fried mac n cheese to brownies and (as pictured above) mozzarella bites.

Everything you cook will come out with a waffle pattern, of course, but in many cases this is an improvement, because mozzarella sticks don't come with built-in sauce pockets.

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