Tools for making Pasta

spark_sara

I am exploring the world of home-made pasta. My first experiments, cutting the dough into stripes using a knife and throwing the stripes into the boiling water - eatable but with rather plump results, and a very cumbersome process! - show that if you want to do this on a frequent basis, you need tools . I can see two generic types of tools here. One, much used in my native southern Germany to make the famous Spätzle , is sieve-based, using...

Originally asked by Pekka on Stack Exchange (cooking) (CC BY-SA 2.5).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The two tools I have used to make my own pasta are rollers and extruders. The extruder sounds similar to the pressurized tool you described above. It uses an auger like a meat grinder and produces round pasta like spaghetti. Shells and macaroni are also made by extruding. The material that the die is made from with affect the texture of the pasta surface. The one that I used was an attachment to a stand mixer and costs ~$100. Pasta rollers have a couple precision rollers with variable spacing for forming the pasta and a set of cutters for slicing the pasta into linguine. There are various sized cutters- my cutters are just one size. The rollers are also a fairly simple machine and can be...

Full answer by Sobachatina: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/7835 (CC BY-SA 2.5).

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