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During testing, this simple, sturdy wooden cylinder rolled out perfect dough every time. Read More
For anyone just starting out in the kitchen, this pin is a safe bet. And as a bonus, it should fit easily in any kitchen drawer. Read More
This rolling pin's tapered design makes it difficult to use without considerable practice. Read More
While its rolling action was smooth, this rolling pin is heavier than it needed to be. Read More
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Calling all bakers and pizza-pie makers! If homemade goodies are the star of your kitchen, then you probably already have the perfect method for rolling out even dough. But could there be a tool that makes this job just a little bit easier?
Every kitchen should have a rolling pin, but my favorite, J.K. Adams Plain Maple Rolling Dowel (available at Amazon) , meant less effort for all kinds of tasks—like rolling out the base for a pizza, flattening pie dough, or beating butter into submission before laminating it between soft sheets of pastry.
Whether you always make your own pie crust at Thanksgiving or just want to host the occasional pizza night, a rolling pin is a kitchen staple.
Trust me: Once you get a good one, you'll never want it to roll away from you—whether it's just a long wooden dowel, a classic pin with handles, or it's a beautiful marble pin that makes a statement on your matching counters.
But which rolling pins are really the best to buy? In order to take my baking game to the next level, I tested seven of the top rolling pins on the market. I made more pizza than could reasonably be consumed in a weekend, cut cookies into snowmen and snowflakes (secret’s out—I only own holiday-themed cookie cutters), and made enough danishes to feed an army. By the end, one rolling pin arose victorious, leaving the rest behind in the flour.
The simple design of this wooden pin, combined with its weight, makes it easy to control the amount of pressure you use based on what you need for your dough.
During use, this rolling pin not only felt comfortable in my hands, but the rolling action was smooth and my dough rarely stuck to the floured surface.
Hi, my name is Bethany Kwoka and I’m an avid home baker. Whether I'm making collections of cookies or double-batches of danishes, I can generally be found in the kitchen covered in flour.
I’ve been baking for years, and have learned over time which equipment works and which gadgets are more gimmicky than great. I want everyone to have as much fun in the kitchen as I do, so I've started testing equipment to help out other home bakers like myself.
Since rolling pins are used to flatten anything from tough, sticky dough to soft cookie batter, I picked three different types of dough to put them to the test. The first was a stiff, whole wheat pizza dough. The second was a soft sugar cookie dough. The third was a tricky-yet-classic danish dough. (That last one's a “rough puff” pastry dough, for all you Great British Baking Show fans. Like true puff pastry, you still have to roll it into a rectangle and fold it over numerous times, but you don’t have to fully laminate the dough with butter between the layers.)
For testing, we judged each pin on how well it rolled out each dough, how comfortable it was to use, and so on.
I then judged each pin on how well it rolled out each dough, whether or not I could easily achieve an even layer of dough, how comfortable the pin was to use, whether the dough stuck to the pin, and how easy the thing was to clean. I considered the weight of the pin, whether it was too vigorous or too gentle with the dough, and—when all was said and done—whether or not I could find a logical place in my kitchen to store it.
Well-sized
Tapered edges easy on hands
Difficult to master
Tapering makes maintaining even pressure difficult
Smooth rolling action
Comfortable handles
Heavier than it needs to be
Does not hold flour well
Dough often sticks to rolling surface
None that we could find
Small rolling surface
Lack of heft makes it difficult to use
Dough sticks tightly to it
Very attractive
Far heavier than it needs to be
Weight makes it easy to roll dough too thin
Dough sticks to it, consistently
None that we can find
Adjustable rings not useful
Rings cut grooves in large sheets of dough
difficult to clean
Bethany Kwoka
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Bethany is a freelance contributor for Reviewed. An avid home baker and aspiring home cook, she reviews and writes mostly about kitchen gadgets (with the occasional fitness review thrown in). Her specialty might be fancy desserts, but she's never met a batch-cooked dinner recipe she didn't like.
Outside of her work for Reviewed, Bethany is a content creator working on clean energy and climate change at a regional non-profit and runs a tabletop game at her local comic book shop.
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