Rome Industries Black Cast Iron Waffle Maker - Old-Fashioned Design for Authentic Waffles

CustomerCustomer: Awesome. The plug-in electric waffle irons are the easiest to use, but that’s where their benefits end, because they’re bulky, take up lots of space, hard to clean, require electricity, and what they’re made of isn’t always the best in terms of materials for preparing food.

The Rome Waffle Iron fixes all above problems, it’s so easy to clean, it stores well, it’s durability surpasses that of any other waffle maker, there’s no reason this can’t last a lifetime. Oh yeah, and it makes a damn good waffle!

The biggest downside to the Rome Waffle Iron, is you have to be skilled in order to make it produce the quality of waffle you’d get much easier from a fancier appliance. This thing is always hot *everywhere* so burns are always a risk, it can make a mess easily if you’ve poured wrong, leaking out the sides. If you’ve greased too liberally you’re in for a kitchen of smoke. If you’ve not greased enough your waffles can stick. If you’re not managing the temperature right, your waffles will burn! Lots of little things like this adds up to a usability problem. All of these can be overcome with skill however, and so for me,...

United States on Oct 04, 2020

Julie Sands: For over three years, I planned to buy my very own waffle maker. I finally own one, one of the Rome Old Fashioned Waffle Irons. I love fresh Belgian waffles and longed for the ability to have them any time I wanted. I looked at big name brands on electronic waffle makers; including those, that multi-tasked making not just waffles but panini, etc. I had one of those type bookmarked for over a year and thought it might be the one. I changed my mind when I saw a type of non-stick copper griddle that Nostalgia Electrics sells, the GD20C, that caused me to select a Rome Old Fashioned Waffle Iron knowing it was the best for me.
I bought one of the Nostalgia non stick copper griddles with warming tray to use with it and get much more use out of it. My spouse and I can fit our Rome Waffle Iron’s small size on our griddle, also make vegetarian soy Morningstar bacon and eggs next to it, and still make ourselves waffles. With the Nostalgia Electrics griddle’s warming tray, we can place our finished waffle in to keep warm while we cook our other waffle on holidays and weekends.
Since it is cast iron, we can also use it outdoors in our back yard on weekends when we...

United States on Jan 12, 2018

Laszlo Kovacs: I am relatively new to the world of cast iron. I made the plunge last year, buying a couple Lodge pans, then I graduated to a Lodge Dutch oven and a grill. That may have spoiled me.

While the overall quality is pretty good, I really, really came to appreciate the fact that Lodge ships its stuff pre-seasoned. The alternative -- shipping them like this, covered in paraffin wax -- sucks.

Getting the paraffin wax off turned out to be more of a mission than I would have expected based on other reviews of this product. First I scrubbed these with soap and hot water, as recommended by the tag that comes attached to the iron. No good. There was still a ton of wax left over. So then I tried boiling them, as recommended by one of the Amazon reviews I read. That got a lot of the wax off, but not all, so I had to do it a second time. Finally, I got most of it off -- that just left the pot I boiled it in needing to be cleaned, because it, too, had gotten paraffin wax all over it in the process.

The seasoning process was more straightforward, although not something I would recommend if you live in an apartment (like me). It smoked things up pretty...

United States on Dec 16, 2014