Palmer Electric Belgian Cookie Iron

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Our kids were home for the holidays and we decided to try out this recently purchased Belgian Cookie maker. After a little trial and error, we proceeded to make around 10 dozen of the tastiest cookies you could ever want. Only the first 2 cookies were wasted because we didn't have the unit hot enough to start with. This cookie iron is heavy duty, well made, and a pleasure to use! At $89 it was a great buy AND it's made in the USA! Perhaps you can save a little time by learning from our experience.We made the batter using the recipe in the pamphlet that came with it. Chill the batter in the fridge overnight and take it out a half hour before you start. Form about a half dozen 1 1/2" balls of batter to get started with. You can form more as you wait for the cookies to bake. Preheat the iron for about 12 minutes and spray Pam or apply similar oil on the iron after it's warmed up. You only need to oil it once in the beginning, after that the butter in the batter takes over that job. If you don't get it hot enough to start with, the first cookies may not get baked enough and will stick to the iron and be difficult to remove completely. Not fun! Also, the whole unit gets VERY hot, so watch your knuckles.Place a ball on each plate a little bit closer to the hinges, rather than centered, as the ball tends to squish forward just a bit when you close the lid. Gently close the lid and lock it. Set a timer for 70 seconds. Open the lid and gently remove the cookies with a fork and transfer to a cooling rack to harden. They will be limp, but should come off just fine if you're careful. Close the lid without batter in it for about 30 seconds so the grill heats back up after cooling down from being opened. Open and continue with the next 2 cookies. Repeat until all the batter is used up.With 1 1/2" balls you should get 6-7 dozen cookies. Once you get the hang of it, it will take about 2 minutes to do 2 cookies or roughly 80 minutes for a full batch. We experimented with melted almond bark drizzled on the cooled cookies with great results. The cookies are also easy to form into cones when they first come off the iron if you have a cone shape to form them on. Enjoy!

leaves pieces of aluminum in the cookies!!! Not only in the first ones, you can see them even if you pass your hand over.This machine wouldn't pass any european revision control to be sold.

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It's quite the simple machine--it doesn't have non-stick coating or any indicator lights, so you have to take that into account, it's a classic wafle maker--but it's solid and does the job! The product box was in great condition, but the item had a broken foot which I had to glue up, must've been an oversight from the factory and the seller didn't check the product before shipping, but other than that, nothing else was broken.Since I am in Chile, I had to get a current transformer to use the appliance. Once having that, everything worked perfectly. Takes 5~ minutes to heat up and a long time to cool down. As it's formed of two solid plates, it can be easily cleaned with a damped sponge without getting the internals wet.