What Is Your Favorite Kind Of Rolling Pin? Please Share!!
Decorating By lindsaycakes Updated 1 Dec 2006 , 10:37pm by lazylola
I have a French rolling pin...wood with tapered ends (I think it's made by Le Creuset, but I'm not sure). I think it's awesome quality, but I find it a little difficult to use sometimes because you have to pick it up and reposition, instead of just moving it around.
Has anyone tried the silicone rolling pins?? What is your favorite kind?!?! I'm in the market for a new one, and I'd love to know what is good! I would be using it mostly for pies and cookies, but if it would work for gumpaste and fondant, that'd be an added bonus!!!
TYIA! Lindsay 
I have lots of rolling pins, but my favorite is my silpin. It's one of the silicone ones. I love it. I find that I don't have to use as much flour when rolling things out with it as I did with the wooden ones.
not that you're probably going to go buy one of these, but I actually use a long piece of PVC piping that we bought at Home Depot. It works great, you can cut it to the size that you want, and it's easy to clean!! I actually got it on the recommendation of someone from CC.
Thank-you for your responses! I've also heard before that there are sanitation concerns about wooden rolling pins. Does anyone know if this is true??
Those of you with a wooden pin, do you wash it with soap, or just rinse in hot water?? I've never used soap on mine, and I've had it for a few years with no problems, but maybe I should be worried!
Thanks!! Lindsay
I have a plain ole wooden one that I took the handles off of when I first got it as a wedding gift. It is my favorite to use for pies, cookies, etc. I use pvc for fondant though. It's funny...the handles broke off of my mom's rolling pin many years ago, and I learned to bake with it without handles. I couldn't do the handles when I got mine, so I took my handles off. DH thought I was nuts, and my mom laughed when she saw it, but that's how I learned! Maybe I should try one of the tapered ones, lol.
I think if you wash your wooden rolling pin in warm sopay water it will be fine. I know you just can't put in the dish washer!! It will crack! I have a wooden rolling pin but honestly, I haven't even used it yet because my mom just recently bought it for me b/c I just moved out 
But when I was living with her I used her wooden rolling pin and I liked it. I would like to try a silicone one though, I don't like using so much flour.
I have a 12in stainless steel one, it's perfect for fondant, pastry, cookies - everything! I wish it was a little longer though for big fondant projects and didn't swivel on it's own, makes for transfering fondant interesting lol!
I have both styles and my favorite is the baker's style. I'm just not a big fan of handles, but that's just my personal preferance.
I started years ago (I've been a pie baker since high school) with the standard wooden rolling pin w/ handles. Then I found an awesome marble one w/ handles (it's better for rolling bread dough for cinnamon rolls IMO since it's nice and heaby). I have the Wilton Fondant roller and it's okay for fondant, but I still prefer my marble one for everything else (the marble one is too heavy to lug around for my cake classes anyhow).
I'm thinking about getting one of the Silpins though, they look nice....just not sure I need yet another rolling pin.
I have two, a metal nonstick rolling pin with thickness gauges on each side. I also have the Wilton large fondant rolling pin which I find I use for most things now. I like the size of the this rolling pin, and the fact that nothing seems to stick to it. I've also found I prefer a rolling pin without handles. Oh, I also have the small fondant rolling pin, so that make three rolling pins. The really small one nice when I'm just doing decorations. I don't have to clear off so much counter space.
The french silpin looks tempting but I'm not sure that it would be any better than my large fondant pin.
Tammy
I guess I'm the only non-creative one. I have the Wilton Large and Small fondant rollers and a normal wooden one with handles. I DO put my rolling pin in the dishwasher because my DH did it one time when I wasn't watching and nothing bad happened to it, so now I just wash it that way every time. 
Who knows, maybe one day it will crack, but it hasn't for the past 5 years!
I got the idea from a friend, we work with flowers a lot. we decided to use a lomey clear plastic tube. you can get them at any florist or floral supplier. they are about $ 3 to $8 depending on height. thay work grat with fondant , gumpaste or any dough
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