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Features:

Stainless-steel set includes pasta roller, fettuccine cutter, and linguine fine cutter

Fit all KitchenAid stand mixers

Clean with included wooden cleaning brush and toothpicks

Attachments measure approximately 9 by 3 inches

1-year warranty; made in Italy

Average Rating:
Rating: - Heavy duty, easy & fun to use, great pasta!
I decided to purchase this attachment instead of the other Kitchenaid pasta attachment (plates + food grinder) because I wanted to be able to make any kind of pasta: spinach, semolina, whole wheat, egg-free etc, and not be confined to a small number of recipes that were sure to work well with the plates. It has worked like a charm. Even the egg-free spinach pasta, which was very dry and crumbly to start, came out perfect.

The widest setting on the roller works to knead/roll the dough until its pliable enough to continue. Its amazing how such flaky dough can become so evenly mixed with minimal effort. From this point, its just a few more settings until you've got angel-hair thin dough. It is important to use the cutter before the ends of your dough dry out, lest they will clog the cutter.

Pasta is my favorite food, and this contraption makes it possible to make my own healthy, delicious pasta recipes at home, quickly!

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Rating: - An Extra Set of Hands
Ya gotta love this three piece attachment set. The roller set is truly like having an extra set of hands. It not only does the cranking for you (vs hand cranking) but you feed the dough in from the top and gravity takes over pulling it through (vs pulling it through laterally on a hand crank machine). It really is like having another person helping you prepare the pasta dough.

The cutters work very well, too. I would encourage you to run at least two batches of dough through each set of cutters and throwing away the resultant noodles before actually using the cutters in making pasta to eat. This will get out the fine metal shavings in the cutters. From then on you're good to go. Also, I invested another $15 at Amazon for a simple wooden pasta rack. Well worth the money and much more elegant than hanging your noodles over the back of a chair. Enjoy!

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Rating: - I LOVE my KA Pasta Roller!
I've been rolling and cutting pasta the old fashioned way for 20 years - I'd mix it in a food processor, and then roll it out with a rolling pin and cut it with a pizza cutter. After hubby-dear bought me a cobalt blue KA mixer for Christmas, though, I decided that I wanted a pasta roller set. ...didn't let me think about it too long, either - I ordered it on Friday, and received it on Monday.

This little contraption is so much FUN! I mix my dough either in the food processor or in the bread machine, let it rest under a bowl for about 30 minutes or so, cut it into 4 - 6 pieces, flatten it out as much as I can with my hands, sprinkle it with flour, and run it through the "wringer". A few times through at progressively thinner settings, and, voila! Perfectly rolled pasta that's tender and delicious. (The resting period is a secret to tender pasta). A light sprinkling with flour before each trip through the roller or cutter is excellent insurance against sticking. Cleaning is a breeze - just a wipe down and it's done. If by some chance a bit of dough DOES stick in the roller or cutter, the supplied brush or a toothpick pops it right out.

It's fun to make a plain dough and a green spinich dough, roll them out separately, then run them back through the roller back to back. You can get a very pretty two-toned laminated pasta that way that's green on one side and white on the other.

Overall, I've been very pleased with the KitchenAid Pasta Roller/Cutter attachments, and would recommend the set to anyone. Just be sure (a) to flatten the dough with your hands as much as possible before feeing it through the rollers, so as not to overstrain the motor, and (b) sprinkle the dough with flour before each trip thought the roller or cutter.

Great pasta that's fun to eat, and fun to make!