Pasta Maker – Original Design – Noodle Roller Hand Press Machine w/ Adjustable Thickness – Washable Aluminum Alloy Rollers &

Great pasta maker when you mount the clamp in its holeThis pasta maker works great. Only 2 cutters. About 3/8 wide and 1/8 guessing.I only wanted the wide any way. Drive me crazy with the pasta maker clamped down still moved like a snake over a hot fire.Well today I was going to mount it to a board with screws. Duhhhh. Look at the photo. If I can load it off this phone. On the one side of the pasta maker is a half inch hole. Wondered why the clamp had flat spots in it That’s where the clamp gos. Not on the flat parts. Just snugged up with the clamp and you are not going. To move it. Not even wiggle it.Now I like it a lot better. I have it clamped onto a 1932 sliding Leaf table. Also mounted to a 3/4 X 22 inch board for different ways to mount. Update. If the dough is slightly wet it’d not going to cut right and stretch on the drying rack.I am using a big mixer kitchen aid. 3 cups flour. 3 eggs on bottom with a 1/4 cup water. Might have added 3 kitchen tbls more at the end. Mix on slow for 6 to 10 minutes. It will look all crumbs. Squeeze the crumbly mess and if it right it will stick together. If crumbs are falling off wet your hands and work it till it looks good. Plastic wrap in fridge 30 minutes. Finally got it right. Cuts perfect no gobbing together. 3 months trial error.Has to be dry . Very dry.Update screws fell out of Gage side. I had already tightened the other. Finally figured out how to get the Gage open to redo the base leg screws. Use one of those cheap tiny screw driver sets. Use a thin straight and slip it in the knob that turns. Best done with that side up. Put blade in and twist. When that comes out. Take the nut and washer holding spring in. Be careful look close before taking out. The nut is just turned in level. Then unscrew Phillips head and the side plate will come off. Careful if nuts are loose can pop out on floor. I used locktite to keep that from happening again. Also on the crank use masking tape around the head about two wraps and this will keep the crank from falling out. You and still move it to the cutters.Update. 3 months use an yes had a screw come loose. Fixed it. Finally got the dough right.Photos show consistency of dough right. Same as consistency of pie dough.I use one cup flax flower 3 regular. 4 eggs. 1/2 cup water. 1/3 cup oil. Probably 1 teaspoon dry Italian seasoning. I use a kitchen aid on 1 speed 5 minutes then 2 speed for 4 minutes. It looks way to dry. Nope don’t have to use flower when I roll it. I use my knuckles to compress in the mixing bowl. Pull it out and of any more water wet your hands and make a ball or flater and put in fridge half hour long as you want. I break off about 1/5 and form it with hands and then use a 9 inch roller to flatten it. Some time it is rough looking. Just fold it and run it thru again. Drys really fast if it is done right. Cuts perfect. Can do the spaggti but prefer the wider noodles. Used one box store noodles in 3 months. Ugggg not good after mine

OkayThe pasta machine is really easy to clean, assemble and most importantly to use. If you are going to be using it every now and then you should be fine, but I was using it everyday. The plastic on the handle broke about 4 months in. Other than that no complaints! Like i said not for everyday but good for the price.

Feels cheap, gets the job doneI bought this as a gift for my mothers birthday. We used it the other day for the first time to make pasta. I know it was less than $30 so I shouldn’t have expected much, but it really felt like poor quality. The clamp was not secure at all and kept sliding around, moving the pasta maker as I turned the knob. The attachment was also not easy to put on. I’d recommend investing in a better pasta maker.

Easy to use, not to cleanGood:Very minimal assemblysimple to operateinexpensivegood size variety for the priceBad:hard to cleanturning mechanism sticks a littlecutting attachment does not fit wellThis pasta press is a great deal for the price. I use it to make gluten-free pasta using a pasta dough recipie from the website glutenfreeonashoestring and it works great in the linguine cutter (not so great in the spaghetti, but that is more the dough than the machine). The attachment for different sized pastas does not have a very good fit and once I slid(jammed) it onto the machine, I found it would not come off because of how the metal was curved. This is not a big deal, as the machine works the same with the attachment on, so I will just leave it this way. I will say that it is very difficult to clean the device. Do NOT try and “crank” a paper towel through to clean, you will jam the machine and probably break something. the cutters do seem to screw apart for in-depth cleaning, but I haven’t tried this yet as it doesn’t seem too practical.

A good kitchen tool or utensil has a few design goals …A good kitchen tool or utensil has a few design goals that should be met.First, obviously, it should be able to perform whatever task it was designed to do. This pasta maker works great in this regard. I’d never used a pasta maker before and expected turning the handle to take a lot of effort, but it was surprisingly easy and smooth. I made a couple of batches of ravioli, purely for testing purposes and definitely not because I just really wanted some ravioli.Second, it should be reasonably safe to use, and not have sharp edges in unexpected places. A knife, for example, can reasonably be expected to have a sharp part on one side of the blade, but a knife with a handle that slices your hand open would be considered defective by anyone who’s ever seen a knife before. This is where this machine starts to look less impressive. It’s constructed mainly of thin sheets of metal, and literally every exposed edge of every metal part is sharp. I imagine you could use it as an improvised weapon if you really needed to, with slightly more effectiveness than a smooth rock of similar mass. Unfortunately, the layout of my home is such that my kitchen is right next to my front door, and so an intruder would likely be able to get to it before I could.Third, it should be easy to clean, because food safety is kind of important. Again, this machine completely fails here. The manual says to not wash it with water – I assume this is because the metal used will rust or corrode or combust or something. (I’d like to note at this point that, according to the Amazon page, the blades are stainless steel. This may be true, but it’s not mentioned in the manual anywhere, and more importantly, they’re *not removable from the non-washable shell*).Okay, at least they made it easy to clean by hand, right? Nope. The rollers are surrounded with metal sections that look like they were intended to keep dough from getting inside, but don’t do a very good job of it, and in fact a lot of dough got stuck to those parts themselves. I eventually had to partially disassemble the machine to have any chance of cleaning it effectively (cutting the side of my finger somewhat badly on one of the previously mentioned sharp edges).After cleaning it and figuring out how to put it back together, I wondered whether the manual had any useful advice for next time.”To clean the inside of the machine, remove the plastic protectors.”There isn’t a single piece of plastic anywhere on it.