Pixel Waffle Maker Lets You Create Your Own Waffle Designs

Pixel is a waffle maker concept that comes with a special silicone tray that allows you to customize your waffles. It really is the future, guys. Just push in the dimples to make your own design, pour that glorious goo into the mold, and presto! You’ve created a piece of art so beautiful, you can’t bring yourself to eat it.

You ever try to stick a waffle to the fridge? It ain’t easy! PRO TIP: Skip the magnets and go straight for a hammer and nail. Nothing says “I’m an artist” quite like driving a nail through your breakfast.

Make Your Own Designs With the Pixel Waffle Maker

Developed through Quirky, the Pixel waffle maker was making the rounds online back in September 2014. Its big selling point? A customizable 9-by-9 grid of silicone squares that allowed you to create different patterns right in the waffle-making surface. That’s 81 tiny squares of breakfast-making possibilities. EIGHTY-ONE! And I’ll probably still manage to make something that looks like a potato.

The idea was to push down individual squares in the removable silicone tray to create a pattern before cooking your waffle. Hearts, letters, smiley faces, and other simple pixelated designs were all possibilities. Basically, it’s edible 8-bit artwork. Somebody call the video game nerds. BREAKFAST JUST GOT INTERESTING.

And the removable tray was designed to make cleaning easier, too. Which is good, because I’m imagining the mess I’d make trying to create a tiny waffle masterpiece. Batter everywhere. Syrup on the ceiling. Me crying in the kitchen. You know, a normal Tuesday morning.

A Waffle Maker Concept Worth Waking Up For

When Pixel first appeared in 2014, it was still a product concept undergoing development and pricing. Early reports suggested a possible retail price between $20 and $30, although that wasn’t a confirmed store price. Whether the original design ever made it into regular production hasn’t been established.

Still, you’ve gotta appreciate the idea. Regular waffles are great and all, but waffles shaped like tiny pixelated pictures? EVEN BETTER. It’s like having a breakfast artist living inside your kitchen appliance. Except you have to do all the work yourself. Typical.

Personally, I’d probably spend an hour making the perfect waffle design, admire my artistic genius for about three seconds, then cover the whole thing in butter and syrup. ART IS TEMPORARY. BREAKFAST IS FOREVER.