I bought this because I thought it would be "just like the waffle iron I grew up with" and just like the one I have now that my grandmother gave me 15 years ago. Many reviewers lead me to believe this was true, so I took a chance and ordered it. The one I have now works, but you have to flip the waffles to get them evenly brown on both sides. First of all, the plates are not the cast iron like what I have now and they are smaller. The clips to hold the plates in are flimsy, I could easily see them bending or, worse yet, breaking off. The topper of them all, the clips don't hold the plates in securely. This is a cheap imitaion (made in China) of quality product that was made in America that apparently can not be purchased anymore. This is going back. I'll keep flipping.