10/13/2023 0 Comments Best rolling pin![]() ![]() Don’t even think about the dishwasher.You may notice that the majority of the rolling pins listed here are of a similar style. To clean a rolling pin, here’s a trick: use a soft bench scraper to scrape any flour and dough bits off the pin then use a clean, damp cloth to wipe the rolling pin. Oh so pretty.Ĭon: can be heavy and tedious to maneuver, but it’s hard to be mad at a piece of pretty marble. Two!? Weight of the rolling pin can work for you… less arm pressure. Pro: will hold a chill for the two times you might make puff pastry a year. These rolling pins are rather heavy in weight but it can be chilled before rolling, making it a great tool for cool-sensitive doughs like puff pastry. Marble rolling pins are for the aesthetically aware and the laminated dough enthusiasts. These things are hard to ignore, but they’re still lovely to have in the kitchen. Pros: way good vibes, and often smaller in size making them great for single pie crusts and food photographs.Ĭons: sometimes they’re too small and questionably splintery. This one in particular feels like something between a traditional and a tapered rolling pin. Vintage rolling pins are often smaller than modern rolling pins. Either way, a vintage rolling pin is lovely to have… especially if you’re a food stylist who collects various dilapidated wood props.ĭid people have smaller hands in the 1940’s? I’m thinking yes. Maybe it’s a great find from that awesome vintage shop you found in Nashville. Maybe it’s your grandmother’s rolling pin. One: making awesome custom sugar cookies and Two: as decoration on my kitchen shelf. These, personalized laser-cut rolling pins (they totally say Joy the Baker) are for two specific purposes. Mahogany French Rolling Pin or Food52’s beautiful Tapered Wooden Rolling Pins. Overall, this is a wonderful rolling pin to have.They’re beautiful, simple, and really easy to work with. Pro: maneuverability, controlled pressure, more control in general, lightweight.Ĭon: great for soft bread doughs and pie doughs… not good for a stiff or chilled cookie dough. Since you aren’t grasping the outside handles, you naturally place your hands, more towards the center of the rolling pin, applying pressing and pressing the dough with more control and intimacy than a rolling pin with handles. Instead, you use the heel of your hand to press a French Rolling Pin away from you. I was wrong.įrench Rolling Pins don’t have handles, so you won’t be grasping at the sides of the rolling pin to push and pull. You may have run across a Tapered or French-style rolling pins and thought… nope, too fancy for me. Not too large or heavy, making it wonderful for pie crust and other rolling needs. If you only have one rolling pin in your kitchen (because you’re a reasonable person), this Maple Rolling Pin is great. Overall, I love this style of rolling pin. Great for everything from cookies, biscuits, pizza, and pie.Ĭon: I’ve found that these rolling pins can be a bit heavy and are slightly less maneuverable that other, handleless options. You can comfortably curl your fingers around each of the handles, using leverage and arm strength to push the rolling pin forward and back over dough. A wooden, in this case Maple, center dowel that turns in the center of two handles. Perhaps this is the most familiar rolling pin to you, the American or ‘baker’s’ rolling pin. The right rolling pin and you’ll be on your way to pie crust success. (Is that rolling pin humor?) Let’s discuss the differences. But wait… why are there so many different kinds of rolling pins? Different strokes for different folks. Pie crust requires patience, guts, practice, flour, butter, buttermilk, and a rolling pin. Proof: Five Tips For the Best All-Butter Pie Crust From Scratch ![]() If you’ve been around here for even just a few days, you know that I’m a stickler, a nag, a nuisance, a pest, a finger-wagger about making your own pie crust. I don’t generally care how fancy your butter is, which set of copper measuring cups you use, or if your oven is gas or electric or hamster-wheel-powered. ![]()
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