The Best Rolling Pin Every Home Cook Should Have | America’s Test Kitchen
The best rolling pins easily and efficiently roll out all kinds of doughs without sticking or ripping.
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My rolling pin is a rolling dowel made by my dad, from a maple tree that I walked past on my way to school. ❤
Awesome review as always, Adam! If you ever do a follow-up, we’d love to have Rolling Wonder in the mix. We set out to develop the ultimate rolling pin, no expenses spared. It’s a pro-level fusion of French and American styles with buttery-smooth motion and precise control.
The French one is the best, so manoeuvrable. And ive got about 15 pins of various types.(who cannot resist them..) French wins imo.
My local H Mart (Korean supermarket) sells a short dowel rolling pin for a few bucks.
I would include your red wine vinegar bottle in the lineup. It's cold from the fridge so you can make puff pastry without melting the butter from incidental friction. Plus, you already own it, it's already in the kitchen.
I was waiting for him to comment on the one with the colorful rings on the ends. That's the one I own, which is made by "Joseph Joseph". I like it ok — the rings are removable to allow you to choose an exact dough thickness. I just checked the ATK website, and they recommend it with some reservations. They said it's too short for things like pizza dough, and the rings can get in the way of your hands when you use it, which is fair enough.
I grew up with a cylinder without handles (mostly because the handles broke off my mom's so we used it as a plain one) so that's what I have
The best rolling pin is the one I inherently from my Mother. It works perfectly.
$30 for a rolling pin? Are you crazy ATK! Go to HD, buy a 2" dowel for $10, cut it to length, sand it smooth and apply some food grade oil and you'll have TWO or more rolling pins, depending on how long you make them.
Thank you for doing these reviews—I never buy kitchen equipment without consulting you first!
I LOVE my marble pin, especially for pie dough. I roll out on my clean Formica counter top. My second favorite pin is the maple, handled pin I got for a wedding present in 1970!
Well I got a bunch of old broomsticks and a bit of lacker and oil
jk rolling pins
I’m a two-handled roller and never will change…
My rolling pin is black silicone with handles. Easy to use…
I turned my own on a wood lathe from some Live Oak that came down on my property. It is about halfway between a dowel and a French rolling pin. I love it.
I love my old broom handle rolling pin 😊; sawed to the right length for me and the diameter allows me to cup my hands while resting my fingers on the counter so I can determine the thickness of what I'm rolling and if its even.
You forgot wine bottle 😂 the college solution to poorly equipped kitchens.
Be careful! Don`t drop that marble pin on your toes! Let it hit the floor instead where it will break in two.Give me a woody please.
My go to is the old fashion one with handles, have been using it for 50 years. I also have one that I haven't needed in recent decades, a plastic one that holds ice cubes. It was great when I had a kitchen that was hard to keep cool.
I have made a number of them. Preferred woods are hard/sugar maple, or beech. Other woods usually are not hard enough or too "open grained". The main question is to oil or not to oil. I use a walnut oil with some carnauba wax in it. They do feel better in the hands, but I am not sure if it is necessary. I would stay under 2 inches thick. Main reason is seasonal wood movement. With ones that are over 2 inch diameter, the wood never seems to reach "equilibrium" with the inside having a slightly higher moisture content than the outside which can create stress, and wood relieves stress by cracking. 2 inches and under is optimal. I can't count the number of people that have the traditional handles ones where the handles have fallen off. One or both depending on how they are made….
Referring to those that are of the most recent design of any of them, Adam called them "traditional" and "old-fashioned." Real traditional rolling pins do not have ball bearings.
I have my mothers glass pin. don't use it just because I don't want to break it. It has removable caps on the ends to add ice cubes. I remember her rolling out many many pie doughs over the years.
I wanted them to test the rolling pin with the same colors as my gym shorts in the 1970s.
I use a 3 foot PVC pipe 2 inch diameter
And joe biden was as sharp as he's ever been.
Pbs is for amoral women who need to be lied to.
I like my American hard rock maple rolling pin with handles. I can use it like a French rolling pin, but it's fat enough to fit a pastry sock. French pins are too thin to fit a pastry sock. And a pastry sock is a must. Prevents sticking on the pin and you don't have to use extra flour, which can make your dough too dry. And I don't understand how you could "overwork the dough" just because you used a pin with handles. That's a head-scratcher to me.
A hunk of PVC drain pipe works pertty good.
based on Adam's body language when discussing rolling pins, there's a chance that his grandma smacked him with it when he was a bad little boy. 🙂
I changed to the OXO traditional style rolling pin after years of using a wood french style. The OXO style is much better for hand or mobility disabilities to have the separate handles.
I am 76 and I use my great grandmother's rolling pin that she got as a wedding present.
She passed in 1970 at 102. I tend to put my hands on the pin, not the handles. The pin is solid maple and is very well used. As an aside, gramma called it "my equalizer"…she was a hoot and a half. Came west on a covered wagon and watched men walk on the moon
I have a French style rolling pin that is very similar to the J K Adams but I've had it for nearly 30 years.
I don't roll out anything other than dough for pie crust.
It works really well for that.
French style rolling pins feel so good. Always feel like I've got really precise control.
I went to Ace Hardware and bought a 1.5" dowel and had them cut it to the length I wanted. I love it! I have small hands and the 2" dowels/rolling pins are too wide for easy maneuvering.
Dowels are wonderful
best rolling pin is that soon to be empty bottle of wine