2/29/2024 0 Comments Danish dough whisk![]() The goal with all of these recipes is to avoid handling the dough too much, which can result in a dense, tough texture. Many recipes for buttery, tender baked goods - such as biscuits, scones, and pie crust - will direct you to lightly mix the ingredients just until a dough forms. "Excellent, makes mixing dough an absolute joy! Wish I’d had this 3 decades ago!" - Linda from Georgia 5) Make dough for tender baked goods like biscuits and scones Thanks to its wide shape, you can stir your granola as it bakes for even browning while keeping chunks intact. Toss hot granola on a baking sheet without breaking up those enticing clusters by using the dough whisk. It blends both dry and wet ingredients beautifully." - Diana 4) Stir granola on a sheet pan I use it every time I bake which is about 3-4 times a week. It’s particularly useful if you’re baking with tender berries or other fruits that might bruise with too much handling. Many King Arthur bakers like to recommend it for mixing up a fruit pie filling. The dough whisk isn't just for blending batters and bread doughs. I can't believe I went without a dough whisk all these years!"- May from Washington, D.C. The handle is nice and smooth, and the utensil is well enough balanced that you can mix bread dough easily. The dough somehow magically mixes without catching a lot of dough in between the whisk apparatus. I love it! It works much better for mixing bread dough than a wooden spoon. "I have never used a dough whisk before and thought I'd give it a try. How many times have you stood at the sink trying to scrape off stubborn flecks of dough from your utensils? Thankfully, this whisk’s open shape makes that task a lot easier. Not only does it effectively bring them together, but it’s also easy to clean. It streamlines your baking." - Diane from Wisconsin 2) Stir sourdough starter and bread doughsĪs handy as this whisk is for gentle mixing, it’s just as useful for thick, sticky mixtures like sourdough starter or no-knead pizza crust. It combines dry or wet ingredients evenly. It makes blending and folding (think egg whites, whipped cream) easy. The same goes for mixing whipped egg whites into pancakes or other batters. In recipes where the flour is blended in at the very end of mixing - like Back-to-Basics Yellow Cake - it's great for incorporating the flour instead of relying on the flat beater attachment of the stand mixer. Thanks to the dough whisk, this thick pancake batter wasn't overmixed and made light and fluffy flapjacks. You know: treats like muffins, pancakes, and cakes that have an airy, fluffy crumb. One of the biggest advantages to this whisk is that its open shape allows you to gently blend batters you don’t want to overbeat, for fear of toughening your baked goods. 1) Mix delicate batters, like muffins and pancakes ![]() Here are some of the baking tasks it does just a little bit better than other utensils. Not to mention, it’s blessedly easy to clean. With such an open design, it’s almost surprising how effective this whisk is at mixing. Something about the way it’s built keeps the stuff from flying out of the bowl when she’s stirring away.” (Recipe tester Susan Reid also told me it makes an awesome bubble wand for kids more interested in bubbles than baking.) It's also great for kid-friendly baking: “My 3-year-old is the official dough whisk user in the house. You know, the initial mix where it’s so sticky and gets all over your hands? The dough whisk saves the day.” She told me, “I also use it to get my bread dough started. She uses it instead of her stand mixer to make speedy recipes like cookies, muffins, and quick breads. King Arthur’s marketing and PR coordinator Gwen Adams is such a fan of the dough whisk, she’s declared it one of her top three kitchen tools. What's better than one whisk? Two whisks, of course. But it's not just a specialty tool it can also be used to mix a wide scope of baked goods ranging from muffins to biscuits, thanks to its unique (and admittedly, a bit strange-looking) design. The core benefits of this whisk are in its name: It’s excellent at combining thick, sticky bread doughs with ease. And then I started using the dough whisk. So why in the world would you need another type of whisk?Īt least, that’s what I thought. It’s a foundational baking tool, after all. You probably have a whisk in your kitchen already. We've asked bakers and employee-owners across King Arthur to point us toward their favorite baking tools, and in Problem Solvers, blogger Rossi is sharing the nifty utensils and equipment they can't live without. In baking, the tools of the trade can sometimes make all the difference.
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