Kitchen gadget - the pastry blender

One of my favourite kitchen gadgets has to be a pastry blender.
Until I got one of these, my pastry making technique was very hitty-missy, due to the fact I have the hottest hands this side of Dantes Inferno.
Before I could rub my cold butter into the dry ingredients into small breadcrumb size lumps, it had already started to soften and melt, which is bad news for pastry making.
However, by using this metal bladed blender, the butter remained cold, allowing it to be cut into the flour/sugar to whatever size needed.
If you have, in the words of the late Charlton Heston, "Cold Dead Hands", then you probably don't need this gadget. But for mere mortals like me and my super heated digits, it's been a boon to my pastry making.
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