It features a stewed style chicken on the top of plain waffles and covered in plenty of gravy. For those of us a little ...

I tried each one on a plain waffle for the full effect. At the end of the taste test, I decided to give the same treatment to a low-cost bottle of real maple syrup for a final comparison.

A waffle-maker is, in my mind, a luxury — a piece of kitchen equipment that doesn’t have the multiple uses of, say, a blender, or the everyday nature of a coffee machine. But what’s become ...