Kitchen Blenders

Last time I used my $45 blender and ended up making a massive mess. The butter ended up caking to the bottom and freezing the thing up… very frustrating!

Now I’m making it again and I used the whisk on my kitchenaid stand mixer (even though I know I’m not supposed to but what was I to do?) and my "dough" was really crumbly and didn’t stick together very well. I stuck it in the fridge to cool anyways, and so here I wait.

Have I set myself up for UN-success?

I don’t use an electric tool for making pie crust. I just cut the butter into the flour mix using a fork.

The blender has only been used about 10 times.

It probably is normal, for some twisted reason(economics) some companies use stainless steal parts for parts that contact food and then use a non stainless screw to secure the part. The blade is most likely stainless steel and the attaching screw may be too but the shaft it is attached to probably is not.