Cheapest it has been since last year. For those doing thin noodles, you'll need to buy the Philips HR2401/05 Angel Hair.
From my understanding, this is the same price as Amazon, but with better Shopback rates ;)
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That’s what OP said.
Has anyone got positive reviews about these things? Seems like the first and last two inches of pasta it makes isn't worth eating from what I've read?
I bought one around a year ago and was hoping to have fresh and healthy pasta and so on but it was the worst money spent last year from my experience. It's much easier and cheaper to buy ones from supermarket. I wish I didn't buy this. Manual in the box is not really useful either.
I love it. Use it every week or so. The first bit of pasta that comes out can be popped back in. Only a small amount of mixture left at the end that is unusable. So easy to use once you get the hang of it.
With the last bit of pasta I put it through my hand machine.
Used to have one a long time ago. The draw card for me was it could potentially make both noodles and pasta. But weighing up the time it takes to make, the size of the machine and the time it takes to clean it, against the end product, it just wasn't worth it. Didn't love it, didn't hate it.
The machine is great. No problems with pasta from beginning to end but there is some extra dough the machine won’t extrude but I finish off with my hand machine so no dough is wasted. It is a touch messy to clean but not too bad. It is quite large. I do love the fact I that as long as i have eggs and flour I have pasta.
I have used it a few times (not mine) and it's a good pasta maker.
You get fresh home made pasta that you can tweak to your liking ingredient wise and you technically never run out of pasta as long as you have the ingredients.
Down side is that it requires measuring of ingredients and then cleaning later which is not as fast as getting store bought and chucking in boiling water.
I have one and love it, make pasta or noodles every couple of weeks
Unless you are using durum semolina.. you are just making noodles..
Noodle in bolognaise sauce.
And if you do use the correct flour, you will be spending more than the price of pasta off the shelf to make your own
The shelf stuff doesn’t taste anywhere near as good.
Don't get the dry stuff.
Get the one you find in the cold section - with a good sauce, you aren't going to know the differences.
@PuppieWayne: I’ve had the ones from the cold section and I can taste the difference. I make my own sauce.
I have one and use it regularly for gluten free pasta for my kids.
Take some gluten free four/tapioca flour mix and xanthm gum, start the machine, add two eggs (lightly mixed) during the first 90 seconds of the cycle, and you have gf egg pasta. Takes less than 10 min, and the kids love it.
Problems: a small pain to clean all the parts. Not officially dishwasher safe but has been fine so far (2 years).
Getting the pasta the right consistency is a little tricky. You want it slightly dry (never wet, but no powdery flour in the mix) otherwise if it is wet when it is extruded it clumps and makes an unholy mess you can't really cook.
If you are gf and want easy fresh pasta, probably the best machine out there I have seen. Still going strong for me 2+ years.
I find it is best to weigh the dry ingredients, rather than use the cup, and you need to be very precise with the measurements. I seem to be OK with avoiding “clumping” if I cook the same day I make it but storing for the next day can be problematic. Separating out the strands, dusting with flour and storing in a larger container helps.
is this the latest model?
I used my pasta machine to make noodles and occasionally made pasta (using drum semolina flour) and I loved it. It is so convenient. I usually made a few batches, leave couple of 2 persons portions for the same day and next day and freeze the rest in separate bags. This way I don't have to do the washing every time I made 500g of noodle/pasta. But I made sure that I separated the strands/loosen the pasta/noodles and waited for them to cool down before bagging and freezing them. I found cleaning quite easy. As for the disc I put it in the fridge for 20 mins before cleaning and sk easy to get rid of the left over flour in the disc.
Also have one
Same positives as the other posters
Should be using it more though
Angel hair disc makes really nice strands
Make sure you measure accurately and don't estimate, it may not look like it has enough liquid when in the machine, but let it do its thing
You can make pasta as quickly as it takes for the water to boil which is cuteThe only slight negative is using lasagne sheets as dumpling skins, they are too thick for my liking
Would recommend if a pasta, noodle eater
How does this compare to making pasta by hand with a manual machine? I used to make amazing pasta in my atlas but it’s broken so I’m considering this.
With the Phillips machine you put in the flour, then drizzle in the egg/water mixture whilst it is mixing/kneading the dough. It will then extrude the pasta and you, just, have to cut it off to the lengths you require. There are dies for fettuccine, Lasagne, spaghetti and additional ones to purchase for Angel hair, Ramen etc. there is, usually, some left over dough that doesn’t extrude. In my case I use my hand machine to finish off this dough. The Philips is a bit fiddlier to clean. There are YouTube videos that show it in action.
The other thing to keep in mind is it doesn’t “rest” the dough before extrusion.
I was thinking without the resting and as much needing as you’d do by hand it wouldn’t taste as good though? When I said how would it compare I meant taste wise, sorry!
I think it tastes as good, but it has been quite a while since I made pasta with just the hand machine. As I’ve indicated I finish off the extra dough with my hand machine so I, prefer, to have both anyway. I just mix all the pasta in together. I’ve got a friend he uses up her extra dough into soup dumplings.
Frankly all the rigamoral of hand making pasta used to make me cranky. If there is a difference then the ease of production blots this out :).
I rest mine even though it is not specifically designed to. You can unplug it at the end of the 3 minute mixing cycle and then when you plug it back in you hold down the start button which overrides the usual settings so it then mixes again for 3 minutes and then extrudes.
Same price amazon https://www.amazon.com.au/Collection-Automatic-Measuring-HR2…