The spreader does help, but just use a pan. I had a crepe maker and gave it away. After a while, it is too easy to start accumulating specialty cooking equipment until you're drowning in it--if you don't absolutely need it, don't get it.

I don’t use a crate plan, and I don’t plan to, but I think the spreader tools might be helpful to achieving and even and thin crêpe.

You need the pan to be authentic

No. Just use a pan.

Crepes are literally the easiest thing to make.

The flat ones in creperies make enormous crepes. You can't eat as many. That's not as festive and fun as building a pile of slightly smaller crepes from a pan or two.

Seriously? I use my cast iron pan. Butter well (but not too well), add some batter, lift pan, and swirl until thin and even.

You don’t need a spreader with a pan.

I wouldn't, but I don't have a ton of kitchen storage space. I need to declutter what I already have and decided no single use tools. Maybe you have a lot more space and tolerance for excess.

I actually got rid of my crepe pans, too, and just use a small cast iron pan that I can use for lots of other things as well. I make crepes at least once a month. To keep an assembly line going, I flip from the small cast iron into my large cast iron once the first side is set.

I have the same electric one that the crepe shop in my neighborhood used. We make crepes only once or twice a year, but I also make American style pancakes and other things on it as well.

Love my crepe maker! They’re pretty cheap.

Just get a crepe pan and you need two tools, a spreader and a flip one.

get a crepe pan and the wooden stick. And a fish spatula (how I get them off). A decent one, like the de Buyer, is around $35.

I love watching crepes made on flat crepe makers. Is it worth getting one, or should I stick with a regular pan? The crepe makers come with those cool wooden tools to push and flip.