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Docking roller

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, docking roller means: A spiked roller used to make small holes in pastry or dough before baking.

In Turkish: hamur delme merdanesi

How it is used

Used to limit unwanted puffing; it identifies the tool rather than a slicing cutter.

Example sentences

  1. The docking roller left rows of holes in the pastry.

    The spikes perforate the sheet without cutting out shapes.

  2. She used a docking roller on the flatbread dough.

    The same tool can perforate a bread dough surface.

Common collocations

  • pastry docking roller
  • roll a docking roller
  • bakeTo cook food with dry heat in an oven, especially bread, cakes, pastry, biscuits and dishes covered with a crust or sauce.
  • prepShort for preparation: the work of getting food ready before cooking or service, such as washing, peeling, cutting, portioning and making sauces. Also used as a verb.

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