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I grew up in a Crepe lovin' household. We had sweet crepes for breakfast, savory crepes for lunch and meat filled crepes for dinner.

I always have used a stove top crepe pan and thought it slow and kind of a pain. That is how my dad always did it so I always thought it was the best way.

Not anymore. A friend recommended I try the Villaware electric crepe maker. Non stick coating, quick and easy. Boy were they right. Just dip the the cooker in the pan they include and you are making a crepe every 25 seconds or so. Easy to clean. I love this thing. Good recipes too, altough their basic recipe is not sweet enough.

If you love crepes. This is the piece to get.

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In anticipation of granting my high school French club's wish to have an after-school crepe party, I bought a VIllaWare crepe maker at Christmas. This past week we used it, along with the more traditional skillet-on-the-stove method in our home ec room. While the seniors preferred the skillets, which allowed them to show off their crepe flipping ability, the younger students liked the "perfect every time" certainty of the VillaWare crepe maker. It was so much fun watching them cook for themselves and for the other faculty members, whose noses led them to see who and what was cooking in the home ec room after school! We had both dessert and chicken crepes. The French 4 kids "volunteered" to make more crepes the next day in class so as to use up the many left-over toppings. So, my classroom became a crepe factory 4th period the next day. How convenient it was to cook crepes right in class, thanks to the VillaWare crepe maker! Many of my kids would like to have their own machines now and can afford to buy their own VillaWare makers, since the price is so reasonable. I plan to order another maker so our next French Club crepe party can accomodate more students. Thanks to VillaWare I can have more kids cooking at our next meeting; rumor has it that even more are coming to cook next time, and I feel comfortable letting the inexperienced cooks use the crepe maker.

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This may be one of the better crepe makers at the price there are a couple of things that really bum me out ...

One .. it takes close to a good 3 to 4 minutes to make a crepe on this machine even though it has a 900 watt element (200 more than and older model...) so unless you are makeing crepes for one ... realx have a drink cause your gonna be sitting at this machine for some time ..

Two .. the teflon covering .. well it's French teflon ... don't expect it to last ... nuff said ...

Three .. the handle doesnt come off and the crepe batter is pretty liquid so get ready to use toothpicks to clean the cracks between the handle of the crepe maker and teflon plate

Four .. appart from that it's probably the best machine out there .. definitely for the money ... and .. since we love crepes and theres more than one person in my house I've bought 2 of these machines ... go figure ....

PS.... you have to try the corn meal crepes they are the most .....

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We have had this crepe maker for about a year, and although it makes great crepes, the teflon surface is seriously peeling off (enough that we can no longer use it) after just about 20 uses. This is my major problem with it, and I will not by this brand again.

It does make much thinner, more delicate crepes than using a pan, but the batter has to be just so not too much or too little oil or flour, or else they either stick or fall off the surface.

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I made my first batch of crepes last night, and I am happy to report that they were very easy to make. Why not 5 stars then? I agree with other reviewers that the chord becomes easily entangled. I had to stop three or four times throughout the batch and untangle the chord. Other than that, each crepe only took about 40 seconds to make and were delicious, using the basic recipe from the manual. Another issue I have with this crepe maker is the dipping pan that is included as part of the set. Besides being made out of plastic, it is oddly shaped: mine actually appears to have been through the dishwasher because it looks a little warped. Also, when I got to the bottom of the batter, I was afraid, like another reviewer, that I was melting the plastic into my crepes. A better chord design and a glass dipping pan would make this unit merit 5 starts. I would still, however, recommend this crepe maker for its price and ease of use.