Originally Posted by
notsosmart
if you have a Kitchenaid mixer (what? you don't? what kind of cook are you?????
) you can buy pasta attachments that work quite well. The nice thing with these is that you'll now have two free hands to feed/collect the sheets and pasta, making for a much neater process.
I DO have a Kitchenaid, and even have the past extruded attachement, but for reasons I can't fully explain rolled pasta just seems like it needs to be done by hand.
Not to mention that the Kitchenaid Roller is $99 all by itself - no cutter. Of course, you can buy a set for almost $200, but then you need to roll the pasta first then TAKE OFF that attachement to put on the cutter?? I don't think so.