This is something that you might have noticed is offered on some of the cordless options, or options that do not have any temperature settings. These units are able to be flipped upside down and placed into a pan of batter- or a dipping pan- to evenly coat the surface of the unit. Dipping pans are great because it means that you will not need to master the tricky technique of the batter spreader, and you allow gravity to do all of the complicated work for you. The only downside to these types of techniques, according to past users, is they they can create quite the mess in your kitchen.