I started out with PC using an ES Spray outfit. Made beautiful even coated boolits, but it was time consuming and fro me tedious. Then folks here started using the sake and bake method. I tried it but was not successful at the start. First the coating was not as even as I would have liked. Second, standing up the boolits with tweezer was a challenge (trying not to knock them over). Tried the basket method. It was fast but the boolits would stick together at times. I saw here on the forum one of the guys was using the plastic inserts that come with boxed factory ammo to facilitate standing the boolits up on the baking surface. I tried that and it works well. That problem being solved to my satisfaction, I concentrate on the powder application. I bought some of the Glad twist top containers with the no. 5 recycle code on them and tried the manual shaking routine(will black airsoft BB’s) and the results were pretty good. Being lazy I did not want to be rolling and shaking by hand so I make a jig to hold the containers so I could use my rotary tumbler(I did have to reinforce the containers with electrical tape, the started cracking). The result was great. I run then on the tumbler for about 20 minutes, dump them into a plastic colander, shake it a bit to let the excess powder sift out and then use plastic tweezers to load them into my trays(ammo inserts screwed to a piece of plywood) then I place my silicone mat on top, then my pan or basket, turn it over and remove the “form”. Then to the oven!
The coating is even on all the boolits and quite smooth. I think this method is as close to if not equal to spraying.