Not as useful with a griddle, but another of the most useful tips in that video is to melt the butter in the pan and pour it into the batter. Makes everything faster and skips the separate step of having to grease the pan.

When all the crepe places started opening up around the bay area, I was surprised because I don't recall them ever being a thing when I was growing up. I just assumed they were this super-fancy French thing that was supposed to be complicated to make, so I didn't think twice when all the recipes seemed to over-complicate the process. If I'd had known that they're even easier to make than traditional pancakes, I would've been making them this whole time.