Whisk is an essential tool for daily kitchen tasks. Even if you only do a minimal amount of cooking, you can easily improve your kitchen experience with a whisk. If you are not a professional chef or baker, the balloon whisk is likely the tool you have in your kitchen because its shape works with standard mixing bowls. <br><br> Whisks are particularly helpful for mixing up pancake batters, creating homemade dressings, preparing fluffy scrambled eggs, and breaking up salt and sugar clumps. The springy, plentiful wires of the Hotec balloon whisks set gives it plenty of whipping power. The whisk is narrow enough to scrape the corners of a pot when you are making a sauce, but still wide enough to quickly aerate a bowl of cream. <br><br> This set comes with 4 sizes and meet your different needs whether you are whipping in deep pot or small bowls. It’s also dishwasher safe, and well-constructed overall. <br><br> <b>Strength and flexibility </b><br> A good whisk should have some bounce. Springy wires reverberate as you whisk, amplifying the speed and power of each stroke. Hotec whisks are strong enough to muscle through pancake batter but springy enough to vibrate for a couple of seconds when you smack them against the edge of a bowl. <br><br> <b>Handle Comfort</b><br> A comfortable handle is especially important for laborious tasks like whipping cream. Ideally, the handle should make it easy to hold the whisk in several positions. Hotec wire whisks with plain, cylindrical metal handles are comfortable as they’re around 1 inch in diameter (skinnier is hard to grip firmly in a fist; thicker is uncomfortable in a pencil grip). The metal handle will not melt when you stir in hot pot. <br><br> <b>Durability</b><br> Though it’s not a huge burden to replace a $10 whisk, a good one should last you many years. The whisk’s wires will inevitably bend a little over time, but they are resilient enough.