This Danish Dough Whisk Can Replace Your KitchenAid Stand Mixer

Oct 15, 2024

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Taylor Tobin is a freelance lifestyle journalist based in Austin, Texas. Her work primarily focuses on food and beverage recipes and recommendations.

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Like many Instagram-following adults, I have a deep and unshakable desire to one day own a KitchenAid Stand Mixer. These culinary status symbols are a staple of wedding registries, Pinterest boards, and food media spreads, and according to chefs and home cooks alike, they’re as functional as they are photogenic.

But I’m an apartment dweller with a small kitchen and an equally limited budget. However much I may want to shell out $450 for a tool that requires some substantial countertop real estate, I can’t quite justify that move. I’ve been on the lookout for an appropriate lower-priced device that can help me make excellent bread, cake, cookie, and muffin batters. After a long trial-and-error period, during which I purchased and broke no fewer than three electric hand mixers, I found the ideal alternative. It’s totally analog, it’s display-worthy, it’s easy to clean, and it costs less than $15. It’s a Danish dough whisk.

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The Danish dough whisk features a smooth wooden handle and a flat metal head with thick, often asymmetrical, stainless-steel loops. The head’s shape lets it cover more surface area than a typical whisk, and when you use it to cream butter and sugar or mix dry and wet ingredients, it effectively aerates the mixture while also scraping down the sides of the bowl. Regular whisks require constant circular movement to do their jobs well, but this dough whisk can do the same thing without your wrist cramping immediately. The sturdier coils cut easily through the dough without getting stuck, and it only took a few taps to remove residual dough from those loops.

Not only does the wooden handle give the Danish dough whisk some hygge charm, but it also lets you get a solid grip on the whisk. The handle is designed to cradle neatly in your palm, so there’s no need to cling too hard with your fingers. All of this makes for a surprisingly comfortable dough-mixing experience. Yes, you’ll feel a bit of a burn in your arm after a few minutes, but the efficiency of the whisk head means that you won’t be stuck stirring for very long.

I’ve used this dough whisk for everything from pancake batter to chocolate chip cookie dough, and when working with heftier doughs (like sourdough or pumpkin bread), I appreciated the smoothness of the coils and how they glide into the batter and along the sides of the bowl. The blonde wooden handle and the sculptural stainless head give off a pleasant aesthetic, and by propping this whisk in the same display vase as my wooden spoons, I get some of that chic kitchen energy that I so appreciate about the KitchenAid mixer.

The whisk cleans quickly and easily, too. I don’t recommend putting it in the dishwasher due to the wooden handle, but washing it by hand in the sink is a breeze. Unlike a regular whisk, you don’t need to maneuver between thin loops, so it rinses and wipes clean in a matter of moments. And because the Danish dough whisk costs $14 at full price, it’s, by far, the best budget-conscious baking tool I’ve ever purchased.

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