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Product Dimensions: 4 x 7 x 7 inches ; 2.7 pounds
Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
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Disappointed
Date: 2010-09-05
Customer Rating:
I recently purchased the grinder attachment as I had the pasta plates. In trying to make pasta I found that the strands immediately clump together and while we tried to sprinkle them with flour as they came out of the extruder it was to no avail. We gave up and ran the remaining dough through our old reliable Atlas. It worked flawlessly and clean up was a snap. The KitchenAid grinder and pasta attachments are still soaking in a tub of hot water. It is too much trouble to use. We will stick with the Atlas.
Poorly designed
Date: 2010-06-01
Customer Rating:
This product is poorly designed, and not cheap, so I recommed against purchasing it. The first problem is that you have to get the consistency of the dough just right or the machine works too hard to extrude it. Second, and worse, is that the noodles come out in a circular arrangement, so the higher ones will fall onto (and invariably stick to the top of) the lower ones. You would have to have a second person sifting flour continuously onto the noodles as they come out, resulting in quite a mess. The device could easily have been designed to shift from a round input to a pinched, flat end for extrustion in which the holes were arranged in a flat, horizontal row. The lasagna noodle attachment is the worst of all; the sheets come out curled up and stick badly, and aren't wide enough anyway. A rolling pin could do a better job! If you're making lasagna you want a wide roller not an extruder. Fortunately KA makes a VERY good (albeit very pricy) roller attachment, which I've used successfully for lasagna, crackers, dumpling and ravioli skins, as well as linguine. Save your money, get the roller set, make your own flat noodles, and buy the extruded ones at the store. Finally, to be worth the cost, this should have at least shipped with the sausage stuffer tubes included, which are just a couple of pieces of plastic, after all. At least that way I could use the screw to extrude sausage meat and fill some links.
Get the roller attachments instead
Date: 2010-03-23
Customer Rating:
These dies make really thick pasta; there's no choice for things like lasagne or ravioli strips. The hollow/ziti/macaroni die really doesn't function, because when you cut the pasta off the die, it closes down one end. If you want it to be hollow, you have to use a toothpick to reopen every piece of pasta. Who's going to do that? Something similar happens with the spaghetti/fettucini dies--once cut with a knife, they all stick together. I recommend the roller option. I love that one! It works like a dream; really, it's incredible how fast it works.
Disappointment
Date: 2010-03-10
Customer Rating:
In the past I've used a Marcato hand cranked pasta maker which always did a good job. However, since I have a KitchenAid stand mixer, I decided to purchase their pasta maker attachment for $70.00 and couldn't wait to try it out the first time. What a disappointment. I followed their recipe, but I couldn't separate the noodles when they were extruded. I wound up with a big messy glob of dough that I dumped in the garbage. I will never use it again; instead I will go back to my hand cranked pasta maker which works just fine.
Great Pasta Maker
Date: 2010-03-03
Customer Rating:
I really love the way I can make macaroni. Fresh is sure better than dried in a package.