A roller docker is a small spiked rolling pin that is used to pierce bread dough, cracker dough, pizza dough or pastry dough to prevent over rising or blistering.
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| Roller Docker 120mm Wide | $15.95 |
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Hamish Macarthur-Onslow (verified owner) –
This is a specialty tool that really comes in handy in certain situations, but of course, beginners can use whatever’s at hand in low-stress situations. That said…. If you have a family/gathering/horde/menagerie of traditional pizza fans, (or pizza in general)… you’ll know that making several (ahem, dozen) different pizzas on multiple barbecues/ovens to feed the masses is often a frantic experience. A quick way to ensure a thinner, crispier crust… or simply to ensure your pizza doesn’t end up some weird “pull apart” bread loaf with toppings… is to “aerate” it after properly flattening it out, and this docker works well, and very quickly for that purpose. I’ve owned two of these roller dockers for some years now and they work particularly well in the mass-creation of thinner, crispier crust styles of pizza… but have also helped with flatter breads like foccacias. You can really taste the difference (and save cooking time) with crusts that actually STAY thin. BUT, that’s not the biggest benefit. Ultimately, I’ve found that it enhances safety/equipment longevity in the kitchen because it avoids entrusting children with more dangerous pointy “improvised aeration tools”… particularly in a busy kitchen while people are spreading toppings onto the bases and potentially getting hands “aerated” in the chaos. However, the biggest saving which have paid these dockers off and them some… has been stopping the bigger “kids” from stabbing my soft wood serving boards (who think they’re simply cutting boards) with forks or other gouge-worthy implements through the bases (I have learned this one the hard way). For piece of mind, safety, speed, and a better end product in busy kitchens, I do recommend them. However, it’s not the first item I’d buy for a baking beginner. That’d be a dough scraper, a good-sized mixing bowl, and a simple baking stone/cheap dutch oven. I hope this helps, happy baking!