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I want a different pastry cutter. Would you recommend, please?

I just have a fairly cheap double wheel model like this: clickety. I have never tried any fancy ones so I'd be interested to hear if something is better than this.

(Of course, I fantasize about buying one of these although I really wouldn't make good use of it.)

Darcie,

I fantasize about one of those as well. Used one when I worked at the Biltmore, and they're great.

But, I interpreted wino to be asking about these. I haven't used in years. I still own one, but it lives in "rarely used kitchen tools" drawer.

Amy

Oh...yeah, those. My mistake.

I've yet to see one of those type of pastry cutters that could last. I've broken two or three, both the wire type and the blade type. Now I just use the food processor.

Coincidentally, I just ordered a new pastry blender yesterday - I need a new one and I also needed to bring my KAF order up to $60 to get $3 shipping.
It's http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/items/dough/pastry-blender
Don't make the mistake of getting one with the wire cutters, they don't work very well at all, the ones with blades are ever so much more efficient.

I have the Oxo blade one and it works pretty well. However, I seldom get it out. If I don't use the food processor, I use my fingers. I was taught to do it with two forks, but find my fingers work better. I wash my hands in really cold water and dry them without rubbing so they stay as cold as possible.

Wino,

Back at the bakery, we had pretty simple pastry cutters, they were just bigger, about the size of a pizza wheel (i.e. just buy a pizza wheel). I've always considered the little double ones to be unusably small. I also cut a lot of pastry using my bench scraper.