KitchenAid SNPA Pasta Maker Plates for Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of KitchenAid SNPA Pasta Maker Plates for Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers
Customer Review: Homemade pasta is soooooo much better
Summary: 4 Stars
Even though it took a few wasted batches of dough to get the right consistency, we prefer the homemade pasta to the dry who-knows-how-old stuff from the store. It is fast and easy to make. From start to eating, I can make spaghetti in around 30 minutes. And clean up is a snap. Just throw everything into the dishwasher and that's it. What could be easier?Customer Review: Save your mixer!
Summary: 1 Stars
As another reviewer noted, this is dangerous to the health of your Kitchen Aid mixer. In fact,I burned out the motor with my mixer, a gift of only two months. Even the literature that accompanies the kit insists that you let the machine cool off between uses, which suggests Kitchen Aid knows there's a problem.Customer Review: Too much work to use
Summary: 1 Stars
Mmmm. Don't we all love fresh pasta. There is something satisfying and satiating about eating your favorite pasta. Both my first grader and toddler love eating fresh pasta plain with just a dot of butter and dash of salt. I have a 5 qt KA and tried to use the pasta attachment several times, trying out all the various discs. I am rating the discs in the order of successful, presentable pastas:1. lasagna noodles, comes out nice
2. flat noodles, noodles are presentable
3. thick spaghetti, the edges curl when it first comes out
4. macaroni, did not work at all.
5. thin spaghetti, spent more time cleaning the disc than making pasta.
I have had previous experience making fresh pasta using the manual Atlas Pasta machine, where you attach this metal pasta roller on the counter and turn the crank and so on. Believe me, it is faster and easier using the Atlas than KA. In fact, I found it faster and easier to hand roll and cut the pasta for lasagna and the fettucine noodles.
The KA Pasta attachment can not make more than 1 or 2 batches before your KA seem to heat up and the machine sounds like it is working over time. The theory and practice of KA Mixers and its attachment should be to make your life easier and cooking a pleasureable and a pleasant experience.
KitchenAid Mixer is one of my favorite appliances and would recommend it highly. It is a must if you love to bake. However, I would not recommend the pasta attachment to anyone. (Buy the food grinder first, if you must have all the attachments, besides you have to have the parts from the grinding attachment before you can utilize the pasta attachments. I think the price of the plastic pasta attachments is over priced too)
Customer Review: Couldn't have been easier
Summary: 4 Stars
I just made my first batch of spaghetti with this attachment and after having read the horror stories here and the warnings in the Kitchenaid guide that it might require several batches to get it right, I was stunned at how easy and painless it proved to be. The spaghetti came out quite nice, albeit a little curled on the ends when it first came out. My biggest dread was dealing with the fresh product sticking together, but it came out essentially dry to the touch and didnt stick at all. In fact, I didnt even bother laying it out in a single row, just separated it a little before dropping into the pot. If I were to guess, I think the key to my painless experience was letting it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes wrapped tightly in plastic. I know there's alot of complex flour chemistry going on in that resting period.
Furthermore, if you are wondering, the fresh pasta was far tastier than the dry stuff. I can't wait to toss it with some fresh sauce next summer. Good luck!
Customer Review: Somewhat effective, if expensive, pasta attachment
Summary: 3 Stars
For what it is (all plastic), this item is rather expensive. But, since I already had the mixer and the food grinder, I went ahead and got this. I agree with the other users that some of the attachments (spaghetti, thinner noodles) make the pasta tend to stick together. More of a problem might be that you really have to tweak the recipe a bit to get a good consistency. I prefer this for lasagne or fettucini noodles myself. It is functional. I would not want to do a large amount of pasta in this at one sitting because I am afraid it would burn out the motor (upon doing a full recipe for the first time, smoke emanated from my mixer. A call to Kitchen Aid said this was probably normal, as my mixer wasn't that old and oil was burning off, but I never did a full recipe again). I would really love to instead get the rolling pasta plate attachment for the Kitchen Aid, but at (price) it's a bit too much of an investment to me. This is functional for what I need it for.