But it turns out there's a right way and a wrong way to use whisks, and it's possible you've been using yours wrong all along. Fortunately Chowhound recipe developer Miriam Hahn has come to the ...

Instead of many widely spaced wires, the dough whisk has overlapping, thick coils. Not all dough whisks have the same pattern of loops, but most of them have three, non-concentric coils.