Waffles

Notes

This is straight from Alton Brown's Good Eats. However, on the show for this or pancakes (I forget), he does this thing where he separates the eggs. Then he whisks the whites with the buttermilk. Then he tempers just the egg yolks with the melted butter. Has to do with the yolks and butter being the same chemically. The he combines the buttermilk mixture and butter mixture and whisks them both together. You can give it a try. Or not.

Ingredients

• 2C all-purpose flour (I like unbleached all-purpose flour)
• 1t baking powder
• ½t baking soda
• 1t salt (kosher, of course)
• 3T sugar
• 3 eggs (but you can get away with 2 if that's all you have)
• ½ stick unsalted butter (real butter, of course)
• 2C buttermilk

Directions

1. Put dry ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix them up.
2. Whisk together the wet ingredients, either all together or as I described above.
3. Pour wet mixture into dry mixture and stir together until just combined (i.e. don't use a mixer and mix the heck out of it).
4. Turn on the waffle iron. This lets the mixture mix together and rest a bit.
5. When the waffle iron is ready, cook as appropriate for the waffle-izer. Personally, I like waffle irons that have an indicator when the waffle is cooked.