Saturday, October 6, 2012

Toasted Waffles

A couple days ago me and my husband, Kalyn, were making breakfast together.  While I scrambled up some eggs he took care of toasting some waffles that I had taken out of the freezer (we made mass amounts of waffles a couple weeks ago to freeze so we wouldn't have to make a big mess of the kitchen quite so often).  This is how it turned out:
"Ashley, why did you only get one waffle out for me?"
"That's seriously only one waffle?" I said, looking up from the stove.  "I thought that was two stuck together.  That thing is so thick!"  I did recall trying to fit a bit too much waffle batter into the iron when we first made them.
"It's only one, see?"  He held it up. "I'm going to get another one."
Kalyn microwaved his waffles for a few seconds to soften them, then he walked over next to me to put them in the toaster.  He held the fat waffle over the opening for a moment, sizing it up.  After a moment of thought he proceeded to squish it in.
"Uh... Sweetheart?  I don't think that will fit in there."
"Don't worry, it fits.  See?"
"Yes, but how will you get it out again?"
"Don't you worry.  I'll get it back out."
"In one piece?"
"Of course!"  He grinned at me.
It took less than 15 seconds of toasting before we saw smoke rising out of the toaster.  As I suspected would happen, when Kalyn turned the knob to "Stop" to manually pop the toaster, the chunky waffle stubbornly stuck fast inside the hole.  Kalyn tried to dig it out with a knife, but it was still pretty soft.  It came out crumb by smokey crumb.
"Are you mad at me?" he asked.
"Actually I think it's pretty funny."
When he finally got as much out of the toaster as possible, I toasted my waffles.  It started smoking again, so I looked inside.  There were still little flecks of Kalyn's waffle stuck in the burners and they were burning off with a lot of smelly smoke.  I turned to him and said, "It looks like I get smoked waffles for breakfast this morning!"
I don't think he appreciated that.

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