Anyone here make their own pasta (sauce be upon him)? I have

[Heddi]

Many years ago we had a hand-held pasta maker that we tried to use and everything came out awful. we were doing things wrong, but we didn't know it.

Fast forward about 15 years.

We got a really awesomely high end hand-held pasta maker at the thrift store for $7 last year. Decided to get it because in real life it would have been about a $119 machine.

Started making dough again....I have a bread machine that i got for $5 at the thrift, and it can mix dough. I have also made dough by hand and made dough in the food processor and in the KitchenAid mixer.

I find I like by hand the least, it it too time consuming.

Food processor dough, kitchen aid dough, and then bread machine dough, in that order.

I find that chilling the dough before also helps.

My favourite to make is ravioli. I haven't had success with the spaghetti setting...something is just not right. THe Linguine setting is fine, but then I have to dry the pasta everywhere in the kitchen..



So I have a hand-held ravioli cutter, as well as a ravioli mold. I much prefer the mold, and can churn out about 3 dozen ravioli in 10 minutes or so.





Here's what the machine looks like


It's very easy, gives equal size. Highly recommended.

[marble falls]

1. Yup, got the same machine. I don't use a ravioli press.

[canoeist52]

2. Love making ravioli too. Gave up on the spaghetti attachment.

I use one very large mixing bowl, my pasta rolling machine, but I'm still using my trusty ravioli pin.

[Yorktown]

3. You don't need a machine to make the dough

There are youtube videos (a good one from the NYT) on how to make dough without a machine and almost without kneeding.