The pasta I made is completely gluten free and grain free since I used red lentil flour! I have wanted this attachment for some time now but I was concerned that a wheat free dough wouldn't work, would be too sticky, or wouldn't run through.I have not had commercially made pasta in over 4 years since my body went haywire from a worsening chronic illness and suddenly could no longer eat wheat/gluten or corn. Within 6 months my life had been dumped on my head. I would react to the corn added into salt and even in tap water, leaving me in excruciating pain and violently sick. Also because of my chronic illness I have very low energy levels and get worn out exceedingly easily. So even though I figured out my pasta dough a couple years ago I rarely make it because it is so physically demanding. Plus I specifically missed macaroni noodles.I was thrilled to see the orange dough coming out of the machine the first time! It will certainly take some practice to get the noodle lengths correct but that's not a big deal at all. I think my dough is still a little too sticky as the large macaroni kept regularly sealing on the end. Next time I'll add a bit more flour to see if it works better. Red lentil flour makes for a sticky dough anyway simply because it is not wheat so it behaves differently. Out of all my tests of the kinds of flour I can still have (brown rice, garbanzo/chickpea) only the red lentil held together when cooked. Red lentil flour is super easy to grind at home. I use my WonderMill for convenience and because I have it, but before I had that it would grind just as easily in an inexpensive ($20) coffee grinder dedicated to grinding flour. Even in the grinder the red lentils pulverize easily and leave a superfine flour. I do not know where or if commercially ground red lentil flour can be bought. Grinding it at home is so super easy that i just didn't worry about it.I am also very pleased to have a pasta that is better for my diabetic spouse to be able to eat! Because of the severe food restrictions imposed by my body, there is almost no prepackaged 'convenience' foods that I can have anymore. I also can't have commercially extracted starches (like tapioca, potato, etc.) due to corn cross-contamination issues so finding flours that worked for me was far from easy. I am THRILLED to be able make noodles ahead and dry them. I have done this before with the red lentil dough and it works great. I'm only 42 years old but I thought macaroni was something I'd never be able to eat again. Funny thing about red lentils when cooked is the color changes, so these look like and FEEL like regular wheat noodles when eating them! At least to the best of my knowledge; I grew up eating homemade macaroni and cheese so I'd think I know rather well. ;DIt certainly takes a bit of work to clean up the machine, but honestly it isn't too bad. The only thing I wish I could change is to have two more die plates, one for small shell noodles, and another for mini lasagna noodles like the size found in Hamburger Helper. I would be utter thrilled to have those options! I can't stop imagining all the pasta dishes I can have again! :D---------------------------Red Lentil Egg Pasta250 g. Red Lentil Flour*3 Large Eggs1/4 tsp. Salt1.) Mix & kneed dough until fully combined.2.) Divide into 30 g. balls for 'walnut sized' portions.3.) Use pasta machine as directed.4.) Bring water to boil & cook fresh pasta for 7 minutes. Drain.Dried noodles: Boil 5 minutes & cover and let sit 7 minutes before draining. (This was the cooking directions listed for the (thicker) hand rolled dried pasta I made in the past. I'm including it here in case you needed a bit of a guide for cooking the dried pasta. The pasta from the KitchenAid attachment has much thinner walls so I'd assume the 7 minutes can be reduced but not entirely sure by how much right now.*Next batch I'm going to try 275 g. Red Lentil Flour to see if it makes a less sticky dough that doesn't seal the macaroni tubes when cutting off.

Great pasta maker. Easy to install on your kitchen aid mixer. Very quiet. Only draw back is it takes a while for the dough to extrude from the machine. It specifically tell you what setting to put the mixer on and NOT go higher because you will burn out the machine. Overall I would still recommend! Have fun and enjoy. Buon Apetite!

Very sturdy. Lots of options for noodles. Easy to use. My grandkids loved it! (They are 4)

Worked great and made some great pasta. It is kind of fun to use too. Cleaning all of the pasta dough out of the little holes and crevices proved to be a challenge, but Kitchen Aid provides a handy cleaning tool with the unit, so that made it a bit easier. Just be prepared to spend a few minutes at the sink meticulously cleaning our the pasta dies. Totally worth it though!

Works as expected. Cute down time of cutting and shaping pasta!

This takes your pasta game to the next level. Making pasta in the shape you want just got a lot easier. This little gadget is fantastic. Disclaimer I've only used it once so far. The noodles came out perfectly shaped. It was so much easier then the counter mounted pasta maker that makes you crank the handle. The clean up is always a chore with pasta makers. Dough is wasted/lost inside this pasta maker. We ended up tossing out a fairly large amount of dough hen we cleaned it out. Clean up was much easier then the counter top counterpart, but we did lose some dough. The amount lost is not massive you end up with about an 1"- 1 1/4" ball trapped inside the press near the installed plate. Making the pasta dough was really the hardest part, and that was fairly easy. I would highly recommend this press to anyone that wants to make pasta at home. It's so much easier to use and way easier to clean up afterwards.

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Got this as a Christmas gift and love it. Perfect attachment to my kitchenaid mixer. I have their other pasta attachment and this was a great addition. Fresh pasta is so much better than store bought. Love using quality ingredients and knowing what I’m feeding my family

I am loving this pasta extruder so far! It took a bit of getting used to but after a couple of days I've got it figured out and it is actually easy to use and working great! It is rather slow when making long pasta like spaghetti, but I recognize that the slow speed is necessary for cutting when making shorter pastas like macaroni. I brush a little olive oil on the auger, extruder head, and dough shaft before beginning so that everything is lubricated and the dough can pass through smoothly. It's so awesome to be able to make pastas that are otherwise difficult to find in stores like long fusilli or long rigatoni. Great addition to my kitchenaid mixer attachment collection. Picture is macaroni made with both regular pasta dough and tomato pasta dough. Both doughs passed through the extruder beautifully.

Tal como la imagen. Muy bonito

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The egg pasta recipe in the booklet included just didn't work for me. I just ended up with a sticky mess and sad pasta shapes every single time. I did a bit of research and found that extruders seemed to be happier with drier pasta dough which made sense to me. So now, I use a recipe of durum wheat flour ( fine ground semolina) (400g) and hot water, (140ml or more if needed) kneaded in the KitchenAid first (takes about 10-15 minutes) until it clumps. It mustn't be sticky - the drier, the better. I then roll it all into a stiff ball, wrap it in cling film and let the dough rest for about half an hour on the counter. When I'm ready, I cut up the dough into a bit smaller than golf ball sized pieces and proceed. After realising that a stiffer dough was better, I've since used bread flour but less eggs and again I've had more success than using the recipes. In fact, success every time. That may just be a me problem but it just seems to be better. Clean up can be tricky but I have to confess that I do take apart the die (shaping discs) and scrub them clean with soap and water but am meticulous about drying them immediately after. I've had mine for a few years and I've had no problems doing this even though I know we're not supposed. Anyway, it's a bit of a faff but definitely keeps the five year old inside me happy with her adult playdoh machine!