[Sca-cooks] wafers

[Johnna Holloway]

I did 600 plus by myself for the Midrealm Crown feast in 2001.
That took an entire day (9 hours) with breaks. I do an assembly line.
Melted the butter in the microwave, used the kitchen aid mixer for the 
batter,
and used electric irons. I usually place two gridded racked over the sink
and place the wafers on those to cool while I put the batter in for the next
set. You turn from handling the iron to working with the last batch. I 
usually trim
mine and remove any stray bits that baked along the edge. (They over-run the
impressions, so you end up with flat cookie edges or pieces attached 
that aren't decorative.)

You just keeping doing it until they are done. Once I tried an electric 
iron, I've
been all for using non-stick electric irons. I used to be able to manage two
on the stove at a time, but it's a lot more work and the results aren't 
as consistent.
I recommended going with electric even back in my old two part TI 
article on wafers.
That was 1982.

Johnnae



>>1600? How many copy paper boxes did that take? And how long did it take you to make that many? 
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>>Stefan
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>Ok, now I'm wondering. My sweetie and I once were trying to figure out how
>long it would take to make the 20,000 to 30,000 wafers that Chiquart says
>to have your pastry cook make, and I was wondering what the members of
>this fine list might have to say on the topic.
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>Using my manual non-electric krumkake iron, on the electric stove, it took
>about two minutes per wafer. By my calculations that would be about 1000
>man-hours to make that many wafers, and that's just the cooking part.
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>Anybody else care to comment?
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>Margaret
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