Kitchen Aid Pasta Maker: Perfecting Pasta-Making with the Kitchen Aid Pasta Maker
A friend of mine has always been a pasta-making enthusiast but the she was quite intimidated with the art because during her past attempts at pasta-making every one of them was a complete disaster. From elastic band pastas to mushy pasta to weird sauces and believe me, you too wouldn’t be happy about her hobby if you’ve tried it yourself as I’ve had. Up until recently while I was strolling at the mall I saw the Kitchen Aid pasta maker attachments and stand mixer and remembered some of the 50/50 reviews it had online so I thought, what the heck might as well give it a try. So I bought and gave it to my friend and she was so elated that I still gave her something to encourage her disastrous hobby.
We assembled the entire machine quite easily with just the instruction manual to follow. In 5 minutes she had already created her pasta dough with the stand mixer. Now before we rolled out the dough I noticed there were two pasta attachments that were included which is for rolling and for cutting dough into fettucine. By the way there are several other Kitchen Aid pasta maker attachments that can be bought. Following the instructions, we divided the pasta dough into three smaller sections to test each section out. With the boiling water standing by, we put our first batch into the roller, started at thickness one and moved to five for thinner sheets. We rolled the dough through one and two several times and once for three, four and five all the while dusting the dough lightly with flour to prevent sticking. Afterwards, we changed the roller to the cutter and made our first batch of pasta which immediately went into the water. We added some sauce to it and took our first taste-test and it was a little rubbery but edible nonetheless. So we moved onto the second dough and we changed the number of times to roll the dough to thrice at one, twice at two and once for three, four and five. After we cooked it in water, we taste-tested it again and in just the second-try, perfect fettucine. By the last dough section, she wasn’t horrible at her hobby anymore.
The Kitchen Aid pasta maker attachments and stand mixer are so easy to use that any amateur or novice pasta maker can make great pasta just in their first try. If you have tried this machine, you would also say that it is so simple and surely you’d use it over and over again, I know my friend has.
