What is the pastry blender?

The Curoří blender, also called bread cutter, is a useful tool in the kitchen. Many bread recipes and for butter or shortening rich biscuits or cakes require you to add cold butter or shortening to the flour. Even if you can do this process with two knives or fork, using a bread mixer makes it easier to cut butter to flour. It has several U -shaped wires that connect to a straight handle. Several types of pastry blender have a slight protrusion from one side of the handle, which gives you a place to rest your thumbs. It is worth looking for a type with this extra Palecký rest because you can better control the confectionery blender if you can use your thumb to exert pressure on the flour/shorten mixture.

The U -shaped wires in the shape of U -shaped are doing a nice job that cuts the ingredients together, and unlike working with your hands to combine two, the bread cutter remains cool, so you keep shortening at optimum temperature. Bakers develop different techniques for their pease; Maybe first cut the butter into a smaller amount between the wires and then swinging the blender here and there forms a integrated mixture. For a standard piece, your work is finished with pastry when a mixture of butter/flour resembles a coarse corn flour. If you add liquid to pastry, some people continue to use pastries or switch to a hand combining at this point, so there is enough liquid to hold the pastry, but it was not too sticky.

Although the blender is specially designed for the production of parts and the like, you can use it for several other things. It's the perfect mashher for potatoes or two if you would like to make some fast porridge potatoes. You can also make delicious Guacamole with pastries. The wires are not very strong, so you would not want to use them to crush something exceptionally hard, but it will crush several bananas for banana bread or turn your walnut squash into a beautiful puree.