Best Buttermilk Waffles

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2010, America's Test Kitchen TV

How do you get waffles to come out crisp yet fluffy every time? Step one: Stop treating them like bumpy pancakes.

SERVES Makes 8 waffles (Each 7-inches round)

TIME 40 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Our recipe for crisp, fluffy buttermilk waffles starts with replacing some of the buttermilk with a combination of powdered buttermilk and seltzer, which inflates the batter. Adding some baking soda to the recipe gave us buttermilk waffles ...

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