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You can never have too many whisks in a kitchen; just like you can’t have too many knives or cutting boards or chopsticks. If you’re a cook or baker or anyone that liaises with a kitchen on a day-to-day basis, you’d know how important it is to have a few of these lying around. Of course, you don’t have to have every type of whisk that exists, in your collection of kitchen objects. Like anything else you purchase for your kitchen, you could only buy the whisks that match your style of cooking and how often you cook. But one thing is for sure, there is a whisk for every kind of cook and every kind of aesthetic. Here’s a lo-down on the ones you should know about and how to use them.
All-Purpose Whisk
Also known as the balloon whisk, this type is best to combine ingredients, emulsification of vinaigrettes, whipping cream as well as mixing together batters. This whisk, with its rounded wires, resembles a bulbous shape and is most commonly found in most kitchens.
ASIN ID - B00004OCNS
Flat Whisk
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If you want to make a rich gravy or pan sauce, the flat whisk is ideal to scrape off any remaining food bits off the surface of the pan. It’s ‘smashed’ appearance facilitates the wires reaching corners of a pan’s surface with unparalleled ease.
ASIN ID - B08RCMQW8L
Mini Whisk
Great to mix together small quantities of ingredients or blending together the contents of a mixing bowl, mini whisks are a handy tool to travel with as well. They serve almost the same purpose as a balloon whisk, only with smaller, single-serving portions worth of ingredients. Think beating eggs for omelettes or making a quick corn-starch slurry to thicken your gravy.
ASIN ID - B094FVZ8WN
Dough Whisk
Best for combining sticky dough ingredients and enabling the clumping together of the flour, dough whisks are good for bread-making. Made with one long, thick piece of wire, it is the most technically challenging of all the varieties of whisks or kitchen equipment. If you’re a baker, you’d probably know the pros of having a dough whisk to combine the thick, shaggy ingredients to make dough for breads, cinnamon rolls, etc.
ASIN ID - B08XJLBM51
Non-stick Whisk
Serving similar purpose as the all-purpose whisk, the non-stick whisk is ideal to use on enamelled cast iron cookware and other non-stick cooking surfaces. Made with silicone or any non-metal material that prevent scratches on sensitive cooking surfaces, the non-stick whisk is utility forward as well as aesthetically nicer to look at compared to its metal counterparts.
ASIN ID - B08HMXNKL4
