Heart to Hearth Cookery

Removing the Wafer from the Iron

The wafer iron is opened when one smells a done wafer, listens to the sound of a cooking wafer and watches the steam.  I use all three senses.  When done my nephew, Alan, opened the iron and I removed the wafer.  The wafer is very soft and fragile as it comes off the iron.  Frequently, I roll the wafer off the iron with the handle of a wooden spoon.  On this occasion, my goal is flat wafers and I found the removal required very great care.