Events and markets across Tasmania from June. That Aussie icon, the jaffle iron, was invented in 1949 and was a coveted household item in the early 1950s. The original Jaffle brand jaffle iron was designed and patented by Dr Earnest Smithers of Bondi. So it’s all-Australian.
“I know for sure the Jaffle Iron was designed
and named and patented in Australia in June 1949 by Dr Ernest E.Smithers, a Bondi medico who moved to the Little Bay Hospital post 1945. He had resided in Bondi for ten years before that, and that is where he invented the Jaffle Iron (Australian Design Office registered Number 27089). I have been in touch with the Smithers family and have seen the Patent document from the National Archives of Australia." Yours, John Ruffels
The Savoury Mince Jaffle is a dinky di True Blue Aussie invention. And, unlike the Jaffle, you cannot take other Toasted Sandwich Makers outdoors! In 1950, grocers were advertising “Edgell Bologanaisse (sic) Mince Beef and Spaghetti – 1/11. A New Line for the Jaffle Iron.”
