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We used a similar "whisk" growing up, although ours was plastic. Its actually pretty easy to use, holding the whisk upright in the bowl, with both hands flat against each other with the whisk in the middle, you just roll your hands back and forth against each other, making the whisk turn quickly through whatever you're mixing. Kind of a manual electric mixer, really. Definitely won't get you fluffy egg whites like a real whisk would...