"Pierre" > wrote in message
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> Now you know why you found it in a second hand store.
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> Buy new, safe appliances, with instructions. Warranty's can come in
> handy too.

New appliances aren't necessarily any better than older ones. In the case
of a waffle iron where there are no moving parts, this would be particularly
true. Most likely once the iron is seasoned it will be just fine. Things
show up in thrift stores for a variety of reasons. I just helped my mother
organize her basement. She had four irons, three were new in their original
boxes. She also had two perfectly good waffle irons, two automatic drip
coffee pots, and a lot of duplicate cookware that had accumulated over the
decades. While she still cooks for herself, she doesn't bother with things
like waffles. We sent lots of perfectly good, some unused, stuff to
Goodwill. I bet that most of us have a couple of small kitchen appliances
sitting on a shelf -- things we used a couple of times and then put away.
Bread makers, ice-cream makers, popcorn poppers, waffle irons, curly fry
cutters, and so one are often bought on impulse or received as gifts. Once
the novelty wears off, they are never used again.

As for warrantees - who bothers saving the receipt for a $39 appliance so
you can mail it, at your cost, to a repair center if it breaks within 90
days or a year?