Every time I have waffles...

[randomness]

...I think of RN.

We were all in the S&C, which that night was serving "Breakfast for Dinner". One of the options was waffles. I love waffles.

When our plates were brought to us, R and I both put little dablets of butter into each square of each waffle, then carefully dripped syrup into each.

"You do that too!" we said, together.

In that moment, we bonded in our obsessive-compulsiveness. The gentle razzing we got from the others at the table didn't hurt, either.

"How else can you make sure each square gets butter and syrup?" she asked. Quite reasonably, I thought.

So this evening, when I got waffles at the Toast, I carefully put syrup and butter into each square, and thought of her as I did it.

Comments

[tfarrell.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen "The Mirror Has Two Faces"?

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I haven't, so I'm missing the reference. :(

[tfarrell.livejournal.com]

There's a scene about how the main character likes to always have "the perfect bite" and goes about trying to always load up her fork with balanced amounts of the constituent parts of any dish.

woot

[avicado.livejournal.com]

I don't eat waffles often, but when I do, I, too, like them with both butter and syrup. I've never been able to come up with a sure-fire way of filling each square, though. It's kind of like filling up an ice cube tray evenly, except trickier, as syrup is more viscous.

Re: woot

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yah, neither of us seems to care that much that the squares get filled evenly, just that they get some buttery syrupy goodness.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

The surest and easiest way to get butter and syrup in all your waffle squares is to melt the butter and brush it on liberally with a pastry brush.

Of course, this sort of presupposes you're making your waffles at home, which is how I usually have them. :) I assure you, the melted butter is *totally* the way to go!

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yah, that sounds like the right thing to do.

Unfortunately neither of us actually has a waffle iron. (Well, maybe she has one now, but I don't think she did last time I saw her.) But hey, good to know.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i haven't had waffles at the Toast. how are they?

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

They're okay. Not fantastic, not awful.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Waffles are why god invented Squeeze Parkay. (Or Squid, as it was called in my family.) And thus, it became assured that all the holes in waffles got their allotment of buttery goodness.

[(Anonymous)]

Parkay. Is. Not. Butter.

(Our family melted butter and served it from a pouring cup.)

[fotofile2002.livejournal.com]

I used to do the same thing.

[ceciliatan.livejournal.com]

I used to do it that way, until catness introduced me to the technology of microwaving the butter and syrup together and then pouring it into each square.

And I never eat waffles in restaurants anymore. Sadly.

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

I suppose you could mash some of the butter with the syrup and then use the knife to spread it evenly? (Then again, you have to take it into consideration that I'm more a syrup in waffle than butter in waffle guy, I wouldn't know...)

[flit.livejournal.com]

I do that too!

I like my butter to be mostly but not thoroughly melted, so it's an interesting balance. I want every hole to have some melted mixed with not-quite-melted butter, and also syrup, of course.

If you start with fairly cold butter and hot syrup, this works out pretty well because the syrup finishes the melting job on the butter.