Waffle baker with improved baking consistency

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention is a waffle baker with improved baking consistency.
The waffle baker includes a base attached to a vertical housing which supports a clam shell style baker assembly such that the baker assembly can be freely rotated relative to the vertical housing.
The baker assembly includes an upper and a lower shell, within each of which is mounted a respective stainless steel bowl which acts as a heat reflecting shield.
A series of tabs are positioned on and extend upward from each of the reflective bowls with each tab being sized and shaped to receive and support a portion of a heating cal rod such that each cal rod is suspended in position above the respective reflective bowl.
The lower shell reflecting bowl includes a central opening which is surrounded by an upstanding perimeter wall.
The central opening is sized to receive a bi-metal switch, a sensing portion of which extends upward past the surrounding wall.
Each of the upper and lower shells includes a peripheral ledge which receives and supports a respective mating waffle baking griddle with the griddles being secured into position within each of the shells.
Each of the griddles is made of a light weight, heat conducting but low heat retention material, such as cast aluminum, for example.
This allows the griddles to be rapidly heated and cooled via respective heating cal rods positioned within the upper and lower shells.
Both griddles include a relatively flat bottom surface and each includes a central recess with one or more surrounding recesses.
When the lower griddle is placed onto the lower shell, the central recess receives the heat collector of the bi-metal switch while one of the surrounding recesses receives an insulated actuator button of the bi-metal switch allows a bi-metal sensing arm of the switch to be placed in close proximity to the griddle bottom.
This insures that temperature changes of the bottom griddle are virtually instantaneously sensed by the heat collector and the bi-metal sensing arm