Charlie wrote:
I suspect it would be cost effective to simply buy a replacement waffle
maker in the UK.

Aren't they available?

Considering the cost of electricy wasted (around 200 watts), plus the
cost of the transformer, it might be cheaper to forget about the waffle
maker entirely and go out for breakfast whenever you want waffles.

Another possibility would be one of those voltage convertors sold for
hair driers that are really just a big resistor or a diode. The biggest
problem I can anticipate with them is that the wiring of the waffle iron is
not really safe at 240 volts.

If the unit were made in the US and UL certified (the whole unit, not just
the cord), it should be insulated up to 600 volts and be ok, but if it
were made in China, all bets are off.

When we moved here (a real 230 volt 50 Hz system), from the U.S. I bought
a waffle maker, that I told my wife was both "multivoltage and multisystem"
:-) It's a heavy cast aluminum device, with a thick teflon coating and
is used over a gas flame.

Geoff.


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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM