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Honored Contributor
Posts: 18,655
Registered: ‎03-09-2010

making pasta--Kitchen Aid mixer

I have made pasta before--using that all steel ATLAS MACHINE---was alot of work but always turned out good. Had my eye on the KA pasta attachment for years now, but was pretty pricey. Decided to look it up on AMZ and found a different brand that works with KA but was 3 cutters in one unit instead of the 3 separate ones from KA--and was $99 for both brands but for the off brand there was a $20 coupon--so $79 plus the usual free shipping---and got it the next day--well I used it and it did just great---has the cutters for spaghetti and fettucini plus the one that you use to get the dough into the right thickness or to use for lasagna noodles----made the standard egg dough--- and the pasta was very good and cooked in nano seconds too. then just brush the one unit clean and stored it back into its box so storage is next to nothing----FYI--my KA mixer is the basic, plain jane model that I've had for 25 years--fit just fine.

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Registered: ‎11-06-2011

Re: making pasta--Kitchen Aid mixer

@wagirl - Thanks for the review! I am often skeptical of the KA knockoffs, particularly after buying one of the scraping paddles that was a total piece of junk and then getting the KA version and having it work perfectly. I'll have to check out the off-brand pasta attachments, as this set has been on my wish list here and at Amazon for a long time.

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Posts: 18,655
Registered: ‎03-09-2010

Re: making pasta--Kitchen Aid mixer

@loriqvc ----plus--if it breaks I can return is free back to AMZ---another thing-- I make sure of, is, that the dough is not  too dry so as to make the machine work harder than it should--got some semolina flour  to make pasta --very good for pasta