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Product Info
Item #3247 Deluxe Pastry Blender Make bakery quality pies and pastries with ease using this pastry blender! Made of durable, heavy duty stainless steel, this blender is ideal for effortlessly cutting shortening or butter into pastry dough and eliminating lumps. Features a comfortable handle designed for right or left hand use. Hand washing recommended.
Strong Feat
- Pastry Blender Make bakery quality pies and pastries
- Made of durable, heavy duty stainless steel
- this blender is ideal for effortlessly cutting
- butter into pastry dough and eliminating lumps.
- Features a comfortable handle designed for right or left hand use
User Reviews
J. Olsen
I am puzzled by the one star review for this product. Though I did not purchase through Amazon, I am here searching for the product I own so that I can get more for friends. No one in my area carries them. I own the Norpro professional pastry blender. It looks identical to the item pictured here. (The four blades are not common on the other pastry blenders I've seen, and the design of this one is different enough from the standard Norpro blender that it is easy to differentiate.) I make my pastry with cold butter and this is the only pastry blender I have tried that doesn't bend under the resistance of the hard, cold, butter. All other blenders I have tried have such flimsy wires or blades that I can move them with my fingers. These blades do not bend under pressure whether from my fingers or the hard butter. I don't understand why even my local kitchen specialty store doesn't carry them. The "heavy duty" Norpro blender they carry is nowhere near as strong as this. If this truly is the product pictured, it is the best.
T.C.
I bought this pastry blender for two main reasons: 1. From the pictures and the reviews, it looked very sturdy. 2. It appeared to be a bit more rounded than the one that I currently have.Overall, this cutter is great! It is incredibly sturdy. My old pastry cutter, which I've had for probably more than 5 years, is beginning to wear on my hands. I work on one pie dough at a time, and by the second one, my "cutting" hand was killing me. I rarely had problems with the butter getting stuck between the blades, but I had to exert a lot of effort when cutting the butter into the flour as I primarily work with almost frozen to frozen butter that's already been cut into 1" pieces. This meant that my old cutter twines were getting twisted terribly, making it more difficult to work with the dough.The Deluxe Pastry Blender handles the frozen butter superbly. I have not felt the need to sharpen the blades at all. The blades are much sturdier than on my old pastry cutter and it cuts through the frozen butter with very little effort on my part. While I did give this a 5-star rating, it is more of a 4.5 star rating, and here's why:* The spacing between the blades are larger than on my old model (see uploaded pictures). It may not seem like much, but I find that I am spending more time than I think I should because I'm constantly scraping the almost intact butter from between the blades. I didn't have to do that as often with my old one and I do find that I start working with the deluxe pastry blender on the frozen butter in a criss-cross manner and then I revert to my old pastry blender when the butter gets small enough. Not ideal, but my hands are not in as much pain as they once were. Don't get me wrong though - I'm still working much faster than I would have with my old one. This pastry cutter helped me make seven pies and 36 apple turnovers between Thanksgiving and Xmas.* Another item that another reviewer mentions is that the flour and butter gets stuck at the edges of the blades. I find that to be the same for me. I usually wash these things by hand, though they can go into the dishwasher, and I'm constantly finding that I'm missing left over flour/butter where the blades meet the rounded part of the cutter.* Lastly, this thing is big - which is good and bad. As another reviewer said, think about the size of the bowl you're working with. To that I'll add, think about the shape of the bowl as well. Even though it's more rounded, it's actually a bit too well rounded for the bowl I use. It means that I have to pretty much work in the center of the bowl for the most part instead of at the edges.These are all small details for me and would only be worth docking a half star. If you're doing a ton of baking that requires the pastry cutter and you're working with frozen butter, this is a good buy. It definitely does not put as much pressure on your hands and the rounded handle has an excellent feel to it. If my old one has lasted more than 5 years, I expect this one to last as long if not longer. It is definitely sturdier than my old pastry cutter.
Nik
I recently found this pastry blender somewhere else and bought two. It was the same price so buying it from amazon will be no different. I must say that I recommend this blender highly. It is a professional, heavy duty blender with the weight to match. It looks constructed beautifully and should last for years. I don't understand the one star review, how can any pastry blender bend when cutting in room temp. butter? Unless they recieved a super defective item, this tool will live up to its professional quality stamp. I chose to forgo any of the new ones being sold now because I do alot of baking and can't afford to keep replacing them due to cheap manufaturing. I have one of the original Ecko dough blenders and it still pulls its weight in the kitchen. And until I found these I was searching for another, just in case. This works! The blades to this do not bend and it is heavy duty. A must. Enjoy!
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