VillaWare V5225 Crepe Maker | 
| Brand: Villaware
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 329
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 15.5 x 9.6 x 3.5
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MPN: V5225
Model: V5225
UPC: 096119522502
EAN: 0096119522502
ASIN: B00005R85W
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| Features:
| • | 900-watt electric appliance makes crepes, blintzes | | • | Convex, nonstick surface cooks quicker, easier than skillet | | • | Automatic thermostat with ready-light controls temperature | | • | Stay-cool plastic handle; 7-1/2-inch-diameter cooking surface | | • | Simple to use, with dipping plate, recipes, instructions included |
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Product Description
The crepe originated in the mid-19th century and has since become one of the tastiest breakfast delicacies around. Stack them, roll them, fold them, fill them with your favorite savory or sweet fillings, smother them in syrup. Of course, with your own crepe maker you can come up with other original and unique fillings for a tasty snack or meal at any time of day. VillaWare makes it easy and right. Weight - 3 pounds
Amazon.com Review
Quicker and easier to use than a skillet, this 900-watt electric appliance simplifies the cooking of crepes and blintzes, making it foolproof. The 7-1/2-inch-diameter cooking surface is coated with nonstick material and is slightly convex. Dipping it into crepe batter coats it uniformly. Inverting the appliance and setting it on a counter (or dining table, for festive occasions) allows the crepe to cook, while the rubber feet protect the counter. The user then simply peels off the crepe. An automatic thermostat heats the cooking surface to the proper temperature, and a light signals when it's time to cook. The crepe maker, which features a stay-cool plastic handle, is accompanied by a plastic dishwasher-safe dipping plate to hold the batter. The crepe maker's instruction booklet contains recipes for various crepes and for blintzes. --Fred Brack
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| Customer Reviews: Read 32 more reviews...
 Man is this easy November 9, 2001
Rick Bloom (Charleston, South Carolina.)
93 out of 94 found this review helpful
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.
Why only 4 stars .... well ... January 27, 2003
Rudolf Spoerer (Weston, FL United States)
74 out of 82 found this review helpful
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 .....
crepe mania March 16, 2002
Beth A. Bishop (Clinton, OH United States)
53 out of 54 found this review helpful
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.
Makes great crepes but not a perfect unit January 29, 2006
MtnGerl
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
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.
It's great! Try it at the dining room table. December 4, 2004
L. Paul (Chicago, IL)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
My husband comes from a long line of crepe makers so I got this appliance for his birthday. At first he rolled his eyes at it (as a purist who likes to flip). With two little girls, though, we found the play value of this crepe maker to be great. It's so easy to use, he actually brought it to the dining room table so he could eat while he cooked. When we had guests, he had this machine going, along with two stove-top pans. He could make crepes 2-3x faster with this machine versus the stove top. The crepes are thinner using this method, but that didn't seem to be a problem. Only thing I'd change about this product would be to make the dipping pan of something other than plastic. I kept feeling paranoid that I'd melt the plastic when I dipped the hot pan into it. Overall, though, I'd highly recommend this product. In fact, we're buying it as a Christmas present for each of my husband's siblings.
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