The Perfect Pancake Maker is a metal contraption that has a bottom with four circular indents, and it also has a lid. You pour your pancake mix into the four indents, close the lid, flip it over, and then open the lid. You do this over a stove top in order to heat up the pancake batter within the contraption, and then when you open the lid, you should have four pancakes cooked and ready to eat. The pancakes will easily slide off of the metal, due to a special surface that has been used.