You take it apart and clean each section with soap and water. Most blenders can be washed in a dishwasher, but if you don't have one, just use regular dish soap and water.
You put it in the dishwasher.
You can use a pastry cutter, knife and fork or pastry blender.
A pastry blender is used to mix solid fats into flour. Its used to make pie crusts, biscuits, etc...
A pastry blender is used to incorporate fat into flour while still allowing lumps of the fat to remain. This allows the resulting baked good to develop layers where the fat melts during baking.
A pastry blender is used to incorporate fat into flour while still allowing lumps of the fat to remain. This allows the resulting baked good to develop layers where the fat melts during baking.
A pastry blender
A pastry blender is used to incorporate fat into flour while still allowing lumps of the fat to remain. This allows the resulting baked good to develop layers where the fat melts during baking.
A pastry blender is used to cut shortening into the flour mixture for flaky pastry. To get the flakiest pastry, it's important not to mix the shortening and the flour together but to layer them, that's what makes the flakes. To accomplish this, the shortening should be solid shortening and be ice cold while you work with it because if the shortening warms, it will soak into the flour before flakes can be formed. Some chefs place their bowl of flour and shortening into a bowl of ice to ensure that the shortening stays cold while they're combining the two.
A Pastry Blender is the curved instrument used to cut shortening or you may use 2 forks.
Yes! Mixing bowls, Mixing spoons, Rotary beater, Whisk, Spatula, Pastry blender, Sifter, Stand mixer.
One could purchase a pastry blender from a number of places. A few of these include Sears, King Arthur Flour, Amazon and Crate and Barrel. Had you wanted a Stainless Steel Pastry Blender, one could purchase one from Williams-Sonoma.
If you're working on the same worksheet I am, the answer is "cut in".
You "cut" solid shortening into dry ingredients, using the tongs of a fork or a utensil called a pastry blender.