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One of the tools I use most frequently in my kitchen is my tapered end wooden rolling pin. I use to have a marble rolling pin. Marble pins are suppose to be great for rolling out doughs and pastry, but I never really saw how it worked any better than this tapered end rolling pin. I love this rolling pin for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons I love it is that it is very light weight. I found the marble pin I had was very clunky. This point also brings me to another reason why I love this little pin, it has no handles. The handles on my old rolling pins often seemed flimsy and gave me little control over the pin. My tapered end rolling pin works great, the dough rolls out evenly with minimal pressure.
The only problem I had with this pin was getting use to flouring it enough to keep doughs from sticking. Once you start adding flour to the pin before you roll your dough and a couple of times during the rolling process there are no problems. This is a great little tool and fairly inexpensive, I think I picked mine up for $12.95.