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Have a homemade Italian meal made from scratch using this pasta maker attachment with your KitchenAid stand mixer. Coupled with the food grinder, separate plates produce varying thickness of pasta, like noodles, macaroni or lasagna. Also included are bowl clips, a cleaning tool and a storage case for the interchangeable plates, clips and cleaning tool. It???s simple to use. And your diners will especially enjoy the taste of fresh pasta made from scratch. Now that???s amore!
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Technical Details
- Makes five different kinds of pasta- Use with any KitchenAid household stand mixer
- Includes storage case, cleaning tool, and food grinder attachment
- Dishwasher-safe
- One-year full warranty
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By frugal housewife (Michigan, USA)
I have to agree with the negative reviews. I previously had an extrusion type pasta maker and thought that this was the way to go for making pasta. So, when I purchased my Kitchen Aid, I purchased the pasta maker attachment as well. I was strongly disappointed. The taste of the homemade noodles was not worth the damage to the mixer. The mixer became very hot, and the whole process took longer than I thought it should have. This resulted in some damage to my mixer - the next day when I turned it on, the motor was making grinding noises. I did everything according to the instructions when I used the pasta maker, and used the "Basic Egg Noodle" recipe out of the Kitchen Aid booklet. If you love you mixer, don't buy this attachment. I think that using the pasta maker over time could possibly result in serious damage to your mixer. Also, I think that the pasta maker plates are poorly designed. The openings for the noodles to extrude through are very small, thus increasing the process time and the strain on the mixer.
By Melissa Krakow (Tucson, Arizona)
It took a bit to get it working for me, but thats just me. Once I got things working just right, I was able to make pasta for my family with no problems. It turned out perfectly and the family loved it. I am sooo hooked!
By fan of quality products (Massachusetts, USA)
First, I am reviewing the meat-grinding part only. And for that I give this attachment five stars. I've used mine for at least 15 years and it has always performed flawlessly in that aspect. I am now noticing stress cracks around the part that inserts into the machine, but as long as it doesn't break I see no need to replace it.
Every time the news buzzes with yet another ground meat recall I can't help but breathe a sigh of relief that I know for sure that my batches of ground meat contain only one cow and not hundreds, which reduces the chance of salmonella contamination significantly. This is probably my most-used KitchenAid attachment. I can't imagine life without it...
By chic mom
There are so many things I'm dying to make with this. Have used it to make homemade tomato sauce and spaghetti. Easy to use and assemble. Need to find an easier way to clean out dough, but it was my first time and not difficult to clean.
By R. Cary (jacksonville, nc usa)
I will admit, this pasta making process is not for the faint of heart... there are many things going on between consistency of the dough, the speed at which the dough is sucked into the extruder & the speed at which the machine spits out the finished noodles. If one thing is a little off, it will affect everything else. I've never made home made pasta before... but I do love my kitchenaid mixer... so I was looking to make something other than cookies & breads after the holidays.
For everyone who is having problems... there are a few things that might help....some of these come from me and some from previous reviews.
First, make sure you read the instructions. Completely. A few times. And then read them again. Many of the problems I ran into were addressed by the instructions! It is helpful to read them BEFORE YOU START.... & I had BARELY skimmed them...so shame on me!
Secondly, the consistency of the dough is very important. While I've started enjoying only whole wheat pastas, I decided to use the basic egg noodle recipe from a kitchenaid cookbook (this is a little different from the one in the instruction manual)just so I could play around with the machine before really expecting anything miraculous from whole wheat flour which is a bit of an art (to me, anyway). It was VERY dry... I added an ADDITIONAL tablespoon of water while mixing before I let it rest for the 15 minutes instructed... & I probably should have just trusted the mixture... it seemed to have softened/moistened while it sat, so the cookbook was right & I shouldn't have gotten ahead of myself.
Third, use your bowl clips. I found out what these were when I read the directions while my dough was resting (!!)... the dough is SO heavy that the bowl was bouncing out of the "locks" on the machine... & these little clips would have prevented that....& prevented me from freaking out that I had to hold the bowl against the mixer to keep it from flying across the kitchen. Again, it pays to read ALL the instructions before you start!
Fourth, it is important to make sure that you follow the rule of using a walnut size piece of dough... & not to cram more in to keep an even stream of noodles coming out. Once the dough is sucked into the extruder & you can see the white screw thing turning because the dough has moved forward toward the pasta plate, you can add more dough to the hopper. This is time consuming... & there is a lot of bobbing back & forth between watching the noodles slide out & watching if it is time to add more dough, but it really is for a reason! You do not want to overload the extruder... because it WILL jam... I almost had a jam, but thankfully my dough pieces were the right size & eventually worked their way down into the machine with the help of the little pusher thing included that helps you move it along manually. If the extruder becomes "empty" while you are pressing the pasta... it will simply "pause" until you stick another piece of dough. The machine continues, but the pasta just hangs there until more dough comes through. Nothing bad happens.... it doesn't matter if you only have a little coming through the holes... it will pick up where it left off.
Fifth, I was concerned about the overheating of the mixer that people also complained about.... the instruction booklet (there we go again) says that you must only make 2 recipes worth of pasta before allowing the machine to rest for an hour. During the hour after I made the one batch, I felt the mixer... & it was indeed warm... I'm sure much of it had to do with me taking longer than normal because of the learning curve, but it did cool off.... most importantly, I hadn't smelled anything burning or seen smoking... but kept an eye on it just the same because of the reviews. Also, I do have the 475 watt model from BJ's Wholesale.... so the extra wattage was probably helpful. If you have a lower wattage machine, maybe you can only stick to one batch of dough, or even divide that in half. Again, the more you use the machine, the more clear it will become to you what the idiosyncrasies of the mixer + attachment are.
Sixth, it really does help to have 2 people working the machine/cutting the pasta. As you cut the pasta from the machine, you must work quickly to separate it into strands... and if you don't do it immediately you will have a devil of a time trying to do it as it dries. The only way to do this alone is to turn off the mixer (thereby pausing the extruder) & separate your strands, spread them on a towel & then turn the mixer back on and return to the feeding of dough etc.
Lastly, the next time I will try this on my kitchen table vs the counter... I'm not a short girl, but between the height of the mixer & the attachment, I was up and down repeatedly & that got a little old, particularly with so much to "worry" about!
This truly isn't rocket science...but it isn't as effortless as one might think. It will definitely take a few tries to get it right... also, it will take a few tries to learn how to COOK fresh pasta vs the dried stuff that comes out of the box.
All in all, I really am glad I got this... I am excited to try this again particularly with all the different shapes!!
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