Blue Appliances TS-253 Electric Food (Animal-Shapes Waffle Maker), None,

I had hoped to purchase the sea creature waffle maker, but that is unavailable. This animal shape one worked and made for happy grandchildren sleepovers. The directions say 5 minutes to cook. It only took 2 minutes. My daughter said the same is true of their sea creature waffle maker. The photo below was my first attempt. The dark spots are chocolate chips! I'm not sure that was a great idea since the shapes are quite small, but the kids liked them. We topped with maple syrup and/or sifted powder sugar. Fun!

Bought as a gift for the grandparents and they and the kids love it.

This is adorable, my kids love the animal waffles. There is some trial and error that comes with learning how to use this waffle maker. I finally got a squeeze bottle (many people use these for icing cookies I think), I put the batter in there and then fill in the shapes. They are small, but I prefer that as my daughter gets to have all three of the animals (how else could you pick?), and she hasn't had a huge amount of waffles. It is relatively easy to wipe down and for the price, a very fun weekend breakfast!

It makes the animal shapes as advertised, but you really need to crisp up the outside of the food item in order to pull out the animal shape in one piece. My version has a giraffe (long, thin neck and 4 individual horns), an elephant (tiny, thin tail), and the lion had the same size tail as the elephant. To get the batter into the shapes, I used a piping bag. They cooked fast, which was nice, but I found the plate has inconsistent heat as I would get burning in some areas while other areas were still somewhat raw. As the packaging mentioned it could make cakes and brownies as well, I tried that also. I do not recommend this for cakes or brownies AT ALL. The nature of those batters results in a fluffy product that easily separates, which means that my giraffe came out headless every time, and my elephant and lions never had tails. Overall, the shapes were fun if I was trying to make them for a display (so a little burning was OK for that purpose)... but we intended to eat these, not so great for that. In a heartbeat, we would buy this again IF they used the entire plate for 1 animal type. It would be simpler to fill and I think the resulting product wouldn't be small and brittle enough to break unless burnt.

This is a fun little waffle iron. Granted, it does not make huge waffles. However it does make wonderful, light crispy, six year old Grand Daughter size waffles. Wee bit of a learning curve getting the correct amount of batter in each shape. I use a bit thinner batter and find it works well. Really does make extra crispy waffle legs too. I may even use this when the Princes isn't visiting.

Gave it as a gift, and it has worked so far! Everyone enjoys the fun animal shapes! What we've struggled with is finding the perfect amount of batter to avoid overflowing and having two or more animals connected by a thin layer of batter. Still fun! Only bothers the family perfectionist.

This is such a cute idea and I wanted to love it but it is just a terrible waffle maker! The batter gets stuck to the grill and then burns before you can get it off. I have tried to use it on multiple occasions and only time, I was able to get it to work decently by brushing both sides with oil before putting batter in. I thought that solved the problem, but then the next time I tried to use it, even the oil didn’t prevent sticking. Very disappointed.

My kids love it. I have to make batter a tad thinner and use pitcher to pour and works perfect on those little legs or neck of the animal shapes. Actually bought another for a co worker and her kids love them too. Only negative was I didn’t get the bunny shape but got the lion instead.