pastry blender

American  

noun

1. a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.

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Example Sentences

I was like, "What is a pastry blender?"

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2023

Cut in chilled butter with your fingers or a pastry blender until no pieces are larger than a pea.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023

“While the fork method surely satisfies the requirement of smashing canned tuna, I admit that I prefer the pastry blender method, because it reminds me of my now departed moms,” he wrote.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022

When Mitch Cohen was growing up in Springfield, Va., all five children were taught to mash canned tuna using not a fork — the tool of choice in most households — but a pastry blender.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022

With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in 6 tablespoons butter and lard until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

From The Perdue Chicken Cookbook by Perdue, Mitzi