Most gourmet kitchens include a pasta machine or pasta maker. But, should you purchase a pasta machine or just buy an attachment for your mixer?
Many of us who love pasta find our favorite small kitchen appliance to be the pasta machine. However, for the family who does not eat pasta at least once a week, the expense of a high quality pasta machine may be prohibitive. Many of the high end (commercial pasta makers) cost in excess of $1,000. These pasta machines are electric and make the experience of creating pasta enjoyable.
There are other pasta machines that are electric and cost only a couple of hundred dollars. Many of the manual pasta makers can have an electric motor added at a reasonable cost. Most gourmet cooks who start with a manual pasta machine will eventually add the motor.
Adding an attachment to an electric mixer is the least desirable method of making pasta. The attachments seldom work as well as a manual pasta machine and if anything, can discourage the gourmet cook from making his or her own homemade pasta.
Buying a pasta machine is a good investment only if the purchaser buys a high quality machine and uses it regularly.
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