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Editor's Choice Product image of J.K. Adams Plain Maple Rolling Dowel
Best Overall

J.K. Adams Plain Maple Rolling Dowel

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During testing, this simple, sturdy wooden cylinder rolled out perfect dough every time. Read More

Pros

  • Easy to control pressure while rolling
  • Long body makes for consistent dough
  • Holds flour well

Cons

  • None that we can find
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Editor's Choice Product image of Farberware Classic Wood Rolling Pin
Best Classic Roller

Farberware Classic Wood Rolling Pin

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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

Pros

  • Small, easy to store
  • Smooth rolling action
  • Great for new bakers

Cons

  • Small rolling surface
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Product image of Whetstone Woodenware 23” French Rolling Pin

Whetstone Woodenware 23” French Rolling Pin

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This rolling pin's tapered design makes it difficult to use without considerable practice. Read More

Pros

  • Well-sized
  • Tapered edges easy on hands

Cons

  • Difficult to master
  • Tapering makes maintaining even pressure difficult
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Product image of OXO Good Grips Non-Stick Rolling Pin

OXO Good Grips Non-Stick Rolling Pin

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While its rolling action was smooth, this rolling pin is heavier than it needed to be. Read More

Pros

  • Smooth rolling action
  • Comfortable handles

Cons

  • Heavier than it needs to be
  • Does not hold flour well
  • Dough often sticks to rolling surface
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Product image of Ultra Cuisine Smooth Stainless Steel French Dowel

Ultra Cuisine Smooth Stainless Steel French Dowel

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Unfortunately, this lightweight stainless steel French dowel couldn't hold a candle to the wooden model we tested. Read More

Pros

  • None that we could find

Cons

  • Small rolling surface
  • Lack of heft makes it difficult to use
  • Dough sticks tightly to it

  • J.K. Adams Plain Maple Rolling Dowel

  • Farberware Classic Wood Rolling Pin

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  • Best Overall J.K. Adams Plain Maple Rolling Dowel
  • Best Classic Roller Farberware Classic Wood Rolling Pin
  • How We Tested
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Bethany Kwoka
Written by Bethany Kwoka

July 24, 2019

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 , 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.

J.K. Adams Plain Maple Rolling Dowel
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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.

Best Overall
J.K. Adams Plain Maple Rolling Dowel

When they say there’s beauty in simplicity, they’re talking about this wooden rolling pin. It’s really just a sturdy wooden cylinder of a medium-heavy weight, nothing more, nothing less. But during testing, it rolled out perfect dough every time.

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. For tough dough you can push a bit harder, and for soft dough you can keep a light touch. The long, cylindrical body and lack of handles also means that you'll never cut an edge through your dough the way you sometimes might with smaller, handled rolling pins. This translates to an even, non-lumpy dough that's easy to shape however you want.

To top it off, flour sticks to the pin just fine, which keeps dough from sticking while in use. The pin also cleans up easily and is dishwasher safe. The only downside is that, depending on the size of your kitchen, it might be tough to put this beauty away. It's also 19-inches long, which makes it harder to tuck into a drawer.

Pros

  • Easy to control pressure while rolling

  • Long body makes for consistent dough

  • Holds flour well

Cons

  • None that we can find

Farberware Classic Wood Rolling Pin
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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.

Best Classic Roller
Farberware Classic Wood Rolling Pin

When you picture someone’s grandmother making an apple pie from scratch—rolling out the crust and loving laying it over a pie tin—this is the rolling pin you think of. It’s an absolute classic. It also works like a charm.

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. The easy rolling plus the middling weight of the pin allowed me to achieve an even thickness of dough, despite the generally small rolling surface.

While our winning pin offered almost double the surface space for rolling, this was the most agile of the handled pins and the easiest to maneuver. It's simple to get the exact results you want. 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.

Pros

  • Small, easy to store

  • Smooth rolling action

  • Great for new bakers

Cons

  • Small rolling surface

$11.99 from Amazon

How We Tested

The Tester

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.

The Tests

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.)

rolling pin tests
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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.

Other Rolling Pins We Tested

Product image of Whetstone Woodenware 23” French Rolling Pin
Whetstone Woodenware 23” French Rolling Pin

While I loved the size and tapered edges of this pin, I felt I did not have the skill to wield it effectively. Despite years of practice rolling out dough, I found it tricky to achieve an even thickness.

The tapered edges of this pin essentially act as handles, but also end up distributing pressure in a way you may not have intended. So while this pin was a close runner up, I wouldn’t recommend it to those who aren’t ready to invest some serious time in learning how to master its ways.

Pros

  • Well-sized

  • Tapered edges easy on hands

Cons

  • Difficult to master

  • Tapering makes maintaining even pressure difficult

Product image of OXO Good Grips Non-Stick Rolling Pin
OXO Good Grips Non-Stick Rolling Pin

I was ready to love this non-stick rolling pin, but was ultimately unimpressed.

The positives: The rolling action was smooth, the handles were comfortable, and it was the easiest to clean out of all the rolling pins I tested.

The negatives: Not only was this pin heavier than it needed to be, but the non-stick aspect didn’t hold up. Nearly every dough stuck fast, while the flour that would have helped with the sticking sloughed off, utterly useless. The pin is also downright hefty, which makes storage tough.

Pros

  • Smooth rolling action

  • Comfortable handles

Cons

  • Heavier than it needs to be

  • Does not hold flour well

  • Dough often sticks to rolling surface

Product image of Ultra Cuisine Smooth Stainless Steel French Dowel
Ultra Cuisine Smooth Stainless Steel French Dowel

This small, lightweight pin would be a great travel rolling pin—if that was even a thing. Unfortunately, it didn’t hold a candle to the classic wooden models. Dough stuck tightly to the metal cylinder, and the lack of heft made rolling out anything but the soft cookie dough a laborious chore.

Pros

  • None that we could find

Cons

  • Small rolling surface

  • Lack of heft makes it difficult to use

  • Dough sticks tightly to it

$16.99 from Amazon

Product image of Fox Run 4050 Marble Rolling Pin and Base
Fox Run 4050 Marble Rolling Pin and Base

Although I love the idea of a marble rolling pin, since the cool marble doesn't transfer heat to a delicate dough, this pin turned out to be a bit more trouble than it was worth. The pin was uncomfortably heavy, making it hard to handle. This meant that not only did I have to worry about rolling my dough too thin, I also had to worry that I would drop the pin—which almost certainly would have broken the pin and/or my foot. Given that the dough also stuck to its marble surface, this rolling pin ended up near the bottom of my list.

Pros

  • Very attractive

Cons

  • Far heavier than it needs to be

  • Weight makes it easy to roll dough too thin

  • Dough sticks to it, consistently

$23.99 from Amazon

Product image of Joseph Joseph Adjustable Rolling Pin With Measuring Rings
Joseph Joseph Adjustable Rolling Pin With Measuring Rings

The idea of adjustable rings to help home bakers nail their dough thickness is great in theory, but doesn’t work very well in practice. While testing, I found the adjustable rings more frustrating than helpful, as it was hard to judge which ring thickness was appropriate. This meant I had to adjust the pin frequently when I should have been rolling the dough. In addition, the end rings mean that this rolling pin has less maneuverability than the others, as you can't slide the pin over a large sheet of dough without cutting a deep groove through it. The end bits also impede easy cleaning.

Pros

  • None that we can find

Cons

  • Adjustable rings not useful

  • Rings cut grooves in large sheets of dough

  • difficult to clean

Meet the tester

Bethany Kwoka

Bethany Kwoka

Contributor

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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