I was replacing my old pastry blender which had seen a lot of use! This was great for blending butter and flour! It’s very sturdy and was comfortable to hold! Very pleased with my purchase!I use my pastry cutter for a variety of jobs.It says in the listing that it has 5 blades but it only has 4 as the picture shows. The handle is a bit larger and more comfortable to grasp than the thinner handled ones.I use mine to cut my butter into my flour for pie crusts and my shortening into my flour for biscuits of course. Nothing makes those come together perfectly like a pastry cutter.I also like to cook several pounds of hamburger in my instant pot. Then I take it out and chop it up with the pastry cutter before placing in bags to freeze for upcoming dinners like spaghetti or sloppy joes.One of my very favorite things to make with this pastry cutter is egg salad. I start by cracking about a dozen eggs into my greased stainless steel pot in pot for my instant pot. I cook the eggs and when they are done, I flip the egg loaf out into a bowl and use my pastry cutter to chop up the egg loaf, add some mayo, pickles, pepper and a dash of sugar and voila! Egg salad in no time and no peeling boiled eggs! It's that simple! What a time saver!This cutter is my go-to for all of my pastry cutter needs and it hasn't let me down.Good quality for a reasonable price.I used this blender specifically to cut butter into Martha White Self-Rising Flour for great homemade biscuits. The cutting-in process is the key, and without a blender such as this, you're biscuits are not going to rise and fluff up the way you probably want. This blender is inexpensive and does the job very well. I experimented with cutting some of the dough, and that goes very well also. For the price, this is a good value.This is my second dough cutter, I'm not exactly sure what happened with my first, but it disappeared. Love how quick these things make cutting butter into biscuits or anything else that calls for it. Super sturdy, quick to clean, just love it!Nice kitchen tool for making pie crusts and other pastries.This is a really sturdy and effective pastry blender , easy to use . the wider tines? Seem to speed up the blending process . the pie dough turned out superblyI love cooking including making pie crusts and bread but I hate cutting in the shortening. This is a dough blender that has 5 blades and makes cutting in the shortening a piece of cake. It is well made and easy to use.