Roll Dough for Homemade Pie Crust

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Kip and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip we are going to take our pie crust and roll it out and place it on our pan. To roll your pie crust you obviously are going to need a roller. This is the rolling pin that I use, then if you have a wooden rolling pin you are going to want to seasoning it occasionally with some oil. My wife brought this one home the other day and this one is founded and it got this nippy little rings on here for different sizes. You pull off the ring or put on the ring that you want for the thickness of your founded but you can also use for pie crust or anything else you want to get a exact thickness when you roll it out. The trick to roll out dough of any kind if one make sure that your surface is seasoned enough. The bakery, the commercial bakery would have a maple surface to work on that is not coated not finished unlike what we would normally have in our homes and we would even season that with oil every night before we go home. But most of our time in our house we don't have that so we would put down some flour and you want to divide this dough into 2 parts. Because like I said we are going to make a top and a bottom for our pie. The trick for rolling out dough of any kind in pie crust as well is to start in the middle out. You just don't want to take your rolling pin and roll from here to here. But you want to start in the middle and roll out, middle roll out, middle roll out and this would help to gage and keep your material moving and to keep the thickness constant. We want to make our pie crust as thin as we can and still be able to work the thinner usually the better. "