Orblue Dough Blender Pro - Premium Stainless Steel Pastry Cutter with 5 No Flex Blades - Large Size

I've started baking more than ever in the past, and suddenly I'm really enjoying it. What I was *not* enjoying was trying to blend butter into pastry flour using a fork or a couple of knives. My hat goes off to people who just do that regularly. Me, I was developing blisters.So I got in touch with a cousin who's a pastry chef (handy) and she told me that she has the Orblue Pastry Cutter. "Sold!" said I, and ran over to Amazon, expecting to find a professional (read "highly priced") item but ready to buy. So I'm delighted to report that this reasonably priced tool is just terrific.It fits well in my hand; it's a good sturdy gauge of steel so doesn't give way when working with frozen butter; the business end of the cutter is made of one piece of metal so no teensy components to come loose or fall into the batter; I can keep my forks for dining and spearing pickles. Life is good and I can recommend the product, always a good feeling.Thanks

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.

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.

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 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.