Pasta Maker : What is it?
| A pasta maker is a kitchen appliance designed for making home-made pasta. It can be used for making fresh spaghetti, fettuccine, ravioli, and all kinds of different pastas. Most store-bought pastas are dried out, depleted of nutrition, and take a long time to cook. Fresh, home-made pasta is said to be healthier and cooks quickly because it contains moisture. The pasta maker can also be used for making pastas made of different flours such as buckwheat or whole wheat, and use vegetables such as spinach and watercress to flavor the pasta. |
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Kinds of Pasta Makers include the following: |
Manual
- The Manual Pasta Maker is a hand crank-style pasta maker.
- The dough has to be churned and flattened manually.
- The machine is then set and the dough is ran through the machine while rotating the crank by hand; the pasta comes out on the other side.
- This type of machine allows the user to shape the pasta to make it look and taste handmade; it is still widely used in Italy today.
Electric
- The Electric Pasta Maker is an automatic device that essentially does all the work.
- All the dry and liquid ingredients are poured in the mixing chamber and the machine is turned on.
- Once the dough is ready, a switch is turned on to extrude perfectly formed pasta.
- It has different extrusion discs for making different types of pasta; from spaghetti to linguine, and from penne to macaroni.
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Variety: Look for a pasta maker that has 6 or more extrusion discs that allows you to make six or more different kinds of pastas: thin spaghetti, regular spaghetti, linguine, fettuccine, macaroni and ravioli. |
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