High-base vs low-base waffle irons

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SueB

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What are the advantages/disadvantages between the two types of waffle iron bases? I'd love to get one for weekly use, and have an electric coil stove.
 
Bases were originally the low style, because the rotating iron could dip below the surface of the woodstove in the open stove eye while keeping the hinge in the socket. Gas stovetops, and later electric, necessitated the high base so the same action could be done without interfering with the burner grate.
 
Ah, that makes sense. I wasn't sure if the paddles needed to be a certain distance from different heat sources. So a low base iron will still work fine with an electric stove, you just have to lift the iron high enough off the base to flip it?
 
Thinking outside the box here but would it work to use a low base on top of a square flat iron on edge "box" to raise the paddles enough to flip them when using a gas range? On the Stover WI I have when the handles are squezed together the paddles separate at the ball. This will not work.

Photo of paddles when handles are both gripped with one hand for rotating.
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