• I made frozen waffles in four different appliances to find the best cooking method.

• All the ways we tried were relatively easy, and they yielded pretty similar results.

• The best-tasting one involved cooking the waffle on the stove with butter and cinnamon.

Frozen waffles are a classic morning staple that most people just pop in the toaster.

However, I wondered if I could make the quick breakfast even tastier using the right cooking method and appliance, so I tried four of them — a toaster, stove, air fryer, and oven — to see which was best.

Here's how the different ways of preparing frozen waffles stacked up.