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- #837,058 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
- #140 in Dough & Pastry Blenders
christian
Reviewed in France on January 10, 2025
Bien utile en pâtisserie, à recommander
J. F. Potts
Reviewed in Belgium on June 10, 2024
I grew up in the U.S. in the 50's and 60s. That is when I learned baking skills from my mother and when I became familiar with the pastry cutter. This tool is essential for making pie dough, super for blending butter and sugar when making cookie dough. I have lived in Belgium for the last 20 years and was surprised not to see these sold with other cooking utensils at the shops. Now I am retired and taking more time to bake. So, I popped online to see if pastry cutters can be found in the EU et voilà! Je l'ai trouvé.If you bake and did not know about this tool until browsing the internet for kitchen gadgets, then it is time for you to order one of these.If you knew of these and wonder about the quality of this particular version, then I can attest that it is sturdy, effective and much easier to clean than an electric blender (mixer or food processor). Enjoy!
Tricia Shields
Reviewed in Australia on January 31, 2024
I use this to mash boiled eggs for egg sandwiches. Works great. Nice sturdy design. I recommend it.
Alexis
Reviewed in the Netherlands on October 27, 2023
het is een degelijk hulpmiddel bij het maken van zandtaartdeeg
JW
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2022
I have not had a chance to use this yet, but I expect it will work just fine. Upon receiving it I was impressed with how sturdy it is. The tines feel heavy weight and stiff and are not likely to easily bend or warp out of place (a problem I had with my old one). The tines did not feel sharp to the point where I would feel like I would risk cutting myself to wipe and clean material out between the tines. Next test will be to see how "sticky" they are and how much material gets between the tines (this one has a bit wider pacing between them than my old one, so hoping less material gets stuck) more to come later on that. This seems to be a great value and would recommend this one.UPDATE: Sturdy?? well maybe not so much. Used it once and it works well enough. However, I put it in the dishwasher and the handle came apart. Not entirely, but the cap at the end of the handle popped out and it took some effort to try to push it back together. Not quite sure if it went fully back together or if it will stay together. I will definitely have to hand wash from now on which is annoying.
I. B.
Reviewed in Mexico on April 26, 2021
Exactamente el de la fotografia y descripcion, es un excelente utensilio para preparar masa quebrada y galleteria! Simplifica muchisimo el trabajo, es muy comodo y ligero, sencillo de limpiar y el material no se oxida, de buen tamaño y agarre firme y comodo, nos gusto mucho.
Tessa Boe
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2016
I love making all butter pie crust, but of course that takes extra cold everything to get it right! I freeze my cubed butter for a little while before combining it with the flour and cutting it in, and the hard butter has broken at least 3 pasty blenders I have had in the past... And that's a little dangerous! I finally found this one, and it can cut through frozen butter so easily without even bowing the blades at all! This thing is super sturdy. I went over to my moms house to make a pie with her and all she had was an antique pastry blender that just bent and let the big butter chunks through instead of cutting them. That type of pastry blender could only cut up relatively soft butter... And she wonders why my crust always turns out better. I have used this pastry blender for about 6 months. And I am just now buying another to replace my mom's. I'm sure there are many good pastry blenders out there, but I know this one is high quality and so I will keep buying it instead of taking my chances again.
acekc83
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2016
In all honesty, I bought this only because my wife wanted me to. She uses it mainly for making home made biscuits and needs it to cut the cold butter into the dough. She loves it because it doesn't cause hand and wrist fatigue.I love it because it is super heavy duty. The stainless steel is thick and not thin. You can tell that it is extremely well made. The rubber grip is nice and comfortable. As a side note, I also use this to make guacamole and it makes avocado mashing very easy. Avocado mashing is generally an easy thing until you get the occasional unripe avocado. After mashing, it cleans pretty well. Getting avocado guts off of it is easy with a fork (or finger...just don't tell the wife). Food bits rinses right off and it cleans very well. I foresee us getting a lifetime of use from this thing. I highly recommend it.As a side note, I was originally comparing this against the OXO version. I didn't like how the OXO had a plastic handle nor did I like how the plastic mated with the blade. I generally try to stay away from plastic and went for the rubber Orblue handle. The OXO does have an extra blade but I don't really see how that would be beneficial over the 4-bladed Orblue.
wvc
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2016
Sometimes I have a bad day. I'm stressed at work. The boss asks me to work the weekend. My car gets a flat tire. My socks don't match. I get Sugru stuck in my nostrils. You know. A bad day.I need to release some stress. So what do I do? I whip up a huge batch of pastry dough. Then I grab these suckers and go to town! These are the best pastry brass knuckles I've ever owned. The pastry doesn't stand a chance. I say, "You think you're tough, pastry? You think you're tough? You're NOTHING pastry!" Left! Left! Right cross! Upper-cut! Pastry goes down!Pastry loses EVERY TIME. Why? Because I got Pastry Cutters. "That's right, pastry. Gonna cut you! Gonna cut you bad!"Pastry loses because I am a WINNER.If it's a really bad day, before the big fight I put on my entrance music (Michael Jackson's Billy Jean, naturally). I wear my bath robe down to the kitchen. I make the cat walk around the kitchen with the round number strapped to her back (no, she's not in a bikini. Why would ask such a thing?) And then I OWN that pastry. I could throw it in a Rear Naked Choke if I was a PANSY (because submission moves against pastry are for PANSIES). No, it's a straight knock-out or nothing. And I WIN - EVERY TIME. I have a PERFECT RECORD. It's 87 wins and 0 losses, and all wins are KOs!If it's a really, really, really bad day . . . after I kill the pastry . . . I eat it . . . RAW.And I don't even feel guilty about it. Nope.
KEcke
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2016
This pastry blender is high quality, with larger blades than the previous Ekco pastry blender I used. Ironically, the blades on one of my old pastry blenders broke the same day I received my new ones. I had my older pastry blenders for probably over 30 years, so there was nothing shoddy about them. They were made in the USA versus the Orblue blender being made in China, which is the only thing I find disappointing. None of the stores that I went to had this style of pastry blender in stock, so I went to my new favorite shopping site, Amazon.com, and found a few styles there. As a side note, my 20 year old grandson works in a local restaurant and had asked me to teach him how to bake pies, since I'm the family pie-baker. I was delighted to have him ask me to do that. I'm happy to report that he is doing quite well and has mastered making my flaky pie crust from scratch. That is a feat that discourages many people from making pies. Having the right tools for the job, such as a good pastry blender, makes the task much easier. My grandson is starting to get a reputation for pie baking and I think it won't be long until he will become a master pie baker! Check out the attached photo and I think you will agree with me! :)
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