Rolling pin

A rolling pin, rolling pin, rolling pin, rolling pin, rolling pin, a rolling pin, dough roller, bakery roller or rolling pin is about 20 to 40 inches long solid roller with a smooth surface that used to uniformly rolling out dough for noodles, strudel, cakes, cookies and pies will.

Easy rolling pins, which are common in France, for example, consist of only a four to five inches thick round bar that is rolled with the hands flat on the sheet of dough. Widespread in Germany is a variant with nearly twice the diameter and two handles, revolves around the role at the ends, which are either lathed directly from the round bar or as usual today, connected via an axle. Professional corrugated timber, as used eg in bakeries, have a larger diameter, so that the knuckles can not bottom out on the table, and they are mounted on ball bearings to reduce friction between the handles and the roller.

Rolling pins are usually manufactured from hard, fine-pored wood such as beech or maple. Rollers, which are used in commercial food production, are generally made ​​of marble, plastic or metal.

Importance in popular culture

In the views of many comics and cartoons (eg Asterix ) is the rolling pin of feisty housewives against disobedient husbands, burglars and others as a kind of shock stick used to discipline them.