sourdough waffles -- or: holy shit the best food you can make at home

Recipe: https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes...

The surface has a thin crusty crispness that comes closer to legit Belgian product than anything I've had before, and the inner texture is firm and spongy. It's a hell of a lot of fun to chew on. YMMV on the flavor, given how sourdough works, but this one had a mild yogurty sourness that made it the best carrier for fruit preserves or applesauce that the world has yet known. Despite the fairly light texture, it's a lot denser than mix-from-a-box type waffles, so the photo above is really two and maybe four servings, depending on how you top them.

Anyway holy shit this is the waffle I'd wished I could make for fucking decades. Prep starts the night before breakfast, using sourdough starter discard, so it's a pretty involved process as morning foods go. But IF you're on the sourdough thing and IF you dunno what to do with your discard, do this. The recipe above makes a LOT of waffles, but that's cool because waffles freeze well.

Serious Eats also has a sourdough waffle recipe that's less effort, but it uses the starter only for flavoring. The King Arthur recipe leans on the sourdough starter to also leaven the batter and give it the texture I'm currently ranting about. You should use the one that looks better for you; for me the King Arthur recipe came out so well that I think I'll stick with it.
https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes...