This Pastry Blender cuts in and blends ingredients for dough with the perfect texture and a uniform consistency. Its multi-blade design quickly works firm ingredients into progressively smaller pieces, then distributes and blends them into other ingredients evenly. Press its blades up-and-down to blend in ingredients until the desired consistency is achieved. It's ideal for incorporating softened butter, shortening, lard, cream cheese, cooked potatoes, squash, and more. It creates lighter dough for pastries and other baked goods, flakier pie crusts, mixes up crumb topping for apple crisp or peach cobbler, and more. Made from brushed stainless steel and chrome-plated steel with plastic gasket, this Pastry Blender is sturdy, durable, and dishwasher safe for easy cleanup.