- I don't know who needs to hear this right now,
but we discovered that there's such a thing
called Tot Waffles.
- Tater Tot Waffles.
- What?
- They taste very good.
- Yes.
Welcome to my quarantine kitchen
where we raise the bar on lowering your expectations.
(laughing)
Okay?
This is a very simple recipe.
I'm using air quotes of recipe.
I found it online then I learned that Tot Waffles
have been around and there's different versions of 'em,
and I feel like my whole life has been a lie,
that I did not know that these were a thing.
- Exactly.
- Normally we are very healthy eaters in this family
but right about now we're needing some comfort, okay.
Here's what you're gonna need.
Frozen tater tots, any brand, organic,
just store brand, doesn't matter.
You're gonna need a waffle iron.
And then you're gonna need some comfy sweatpants
'cause this is not the recipe
where you're gonna feel well good about yourself
when you're done, so just leave room to expand.
- Yep. - Okay.
So, first step, we have to defrost the tater tots.
Now if you were forward thinking and you planned your day
you would just set 'em out on the counter to defrost.
We don't do things like that in this house.
So, we're just gonna stick 'em in the microwave.
Three minutes.
Ready?
Another thing you can do is tell your kids to dance,
use this time wisely.
This is actually we're counting this as PE time.
So go!
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You may be asking yourself,
"Why not just eat regular tater tots?
"They're delicious as is, why you gotta mess with them?"
To you I say, I don't need that negativity
in my life right now.
So, these are properly mushy.
Now, this is a parent's job here.
You have a heated waffle iron.
What I'm doing now is I am filling our defrosted tots.
Just really mashing them in here.
We wanna make sure there's no gaps
'cause we want it to properly waffle.
Close it, really mash it down.
Oh, and strong!
- Yep. - And flip it.
Now, we wait.
These have been under high heat for like five minutes.
(whimsical music)
Wow! - Wow!
Stop it!
- Stop it!
So, this gonna be a little tricky.
We're gonna go underneath here.
- [Penn] Find a crispy spot.
- Find your crispy spot.
Okay, it should lift.
- [Penn] Oh yeah, oh yeah!
Oh yeah, oh yeah!
- Oh wa!
(PC yells)
You could get fancy, you could do like an egg in the middle
with bacon crumbles and cheese.
Make it your own.
That's the beauty of this time,
that we have been gifted,
is that we can just experiment.
I've also heard that you can do like brownies in here,
you can do cakes.
I might make every meal in quarantine in our waffle maker.
What do you think?
- Yeah!
It looks like a waffle.
Also looks like has a like tater totty feel.
It has like that white stuff.
Definitely looks like a tot waffle.
- [Kim] Future food critic, I love it.
- And now I'm gonna taste it.
- [Kim] What d'you think?
(tick tocking)
- It's really good.
It's really good.
- Thanks for watching.
If you end up making a Tot Waffle
please put the picture--
There you go.
Put the picture in the comments and let me know
how you like them.