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4.5
This Crepe maker is very easy to use and you can clean up messes very easy. One problem I have is the the button to turn it off and on falls of after a couple months of me using it. Overall the Crepe maker is very good.This will help me be a better cook.I've been making crepes for decades now and I've gotten to try out a bunch of crepe makers in the process, overall this is one of the worst ones I've used. First the positive - it's easy to clean, doesn't take up a lot of space, and is nice and lightweight.Now onto the downsides - The temperature control is stiff enough that you need to hold onto one of the handles on the side to be able to turn it, and even more importantly the top must be very thin - I turned it on and waited a good 10 minutes for it to heat up so it would all be the same temperature, but when you pour the crepe and start cooking it the Crepe has a VERY distinct ring where the heating element is and where it is not. It appears that just the coolness of the crepe batter is enough to lower the temperature of the griddle and only the area with the hearing element heats back up quickly enough. So you end up with a crepe that is barely cooked at the center and outer edge, and a donut area in the middle that it very brown.This pan has an excellent non stick surface, cooks evenly and cleans up in a jiffy. The tools that are included are also simple yet amazing! I watched YouTube videos on how to use the wooden “T” tool and now have super thin, even crepes every time.Great product, even if it's in the pricy side! Key differentiating feature of this crepe maker from the other online crepe machines (based in my thorough research) is that us has no edge around! Which means no messy batter drip onto the hot base and the ease of quickly cleaning up the griddle surface before you make the next crepe, just like the pro-crepe maker. Two other important features are the funnel-shaped base and two handles on the sides, for ease of lifting it up and winding up the cord underneath the base. Having lived in Europe and Asia, our family loves Fench crepes and Chinese crepes (called Jianbing) and Chinese tortilla, each of which requires a different kind of batter but the same kind of no-edge cooking surface and a spreader. I've used it to make all three with great success! Temperature control is good, although a bit slower in sustaining the high heat than what I was looking for but it's good enough for a beginner so that you can spread it evenly withou letting the batter dry up too quickly. I didn't use it for US pancakes as I already have a electric griddle just for that purpose already. But I'm sure you can use it for that as well. I highly recommend it if you love International cuisine or love to expand your culinary repertoire.I use this grill daily. I originally but it for crepes but since, I use it almost every morning for blueberry pancakes. It just me and my wife at home so it makes our pancakes fast and easy. The only problem I have is the temperature light quit working after a few uses. It still gets hot enough but the temp knob goes from off to high so who knows what temp it’s set on when it’s half way up. But all in all I’m very happy with it. I would take a chance on another one in a heartbeatThe temperature control takes some getting used to, it is not intuitively marked, but once you figure out that you want it just below full blast, almost all the way to the right, it works great.
