Anyone use a KitchenAid stand mixer? Have a preference for pasta attachments?
I'm looking at one designed for broad noodles/spaghetti (first pic) and one with disk wheels for shaped pasta.(2nd pic).
Any comments? Preferences? Advice?
@davemark @siegel
We have the former (the wide-noodle one). It works pretty well, but it's time-intensive since each bit of dough has to go through several times, and you want to flour the pasta well to avoid it sticking to the rollers. The tidiness of image is heavily photoshopped from reality.
Our main issue is logistical: our counters aren't deep enough for the output to be over a surface, so for us it's also a great way to drop fresh pasta on the floor.
@davemark No relevant experience, sorry.
@siegel Thought I remembered you fixing / restoring stand mixers at some point.
@davemark @siegel We have a kitchen aid mixer but the pasta attachments look… not rigid enough?
Personally I prefer the counter mounted hand rollers.
It looks like hard work but it isn’t really. And you can more easily adjust the speed or stop rolling if the pasta starts to track offline.
Either way, as an earlier poster commented, the scene in that photo does not have enough flour everywhere!
@davemark I still do :-), but don’t do much with the attachments.
@davemark I use the spaghetti/broad noodle attachment all the time. I would suggest getting good at making dough before buying the shaped pasta attachment.
Getting a feel for making pasta is more important than buying the attachments.
@davemark P.S. I learned 90% of what I needed from this 5 min video.
@jkordyback Cheers, John!
@davemark I have the spaghetti one. Hard to use. Time consuming. Results are so so without a consequential time investment.
We went with Philips Pasta Maker (the big one) . Absolutely fabulous. Love it and use it weekly for almost 5 years.
Pro tip: Just be sure to put the water quantity as asked and no more. The dough has to look dry for good results.
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