Product Description

Have a homemade Italian meal made from scratch using this pasta maker attachment with your KitchenAid stand mixer. Coupled with the food grinder, separate plates produce varying thickness of pasta, like noodles, macaroni or lasagna. Also included are bowl clips, a cleaning tool and a storage case for the interchangeable plates, clips and cleaning tool. It???s simple to use. And your diners will especially enjoy the taste of fresh pasta made from scratch. Now that???s amore!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1396 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: KitchenAid
• Model: SNFGA
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 7.00" w x 4.00" l, 2.70 pounds

Features

• Makes five different kinds of pasta
• Use with any KitchenAid household stand mixer
• Includes storage case, cleaning tool, and food grinder attachment
• Dishwasher-safe
• One-year full warranty

Amazon.com Review
Spaghetti, macaroni, egg noodles, lasagna noodles--you won't be at a loss for something to make for dinner with this pasta maker attachment set that fits all models of KitchenAid stand mixers. It consists of a grinding auger, grinder body, and small circular plastic plates with varying holes that shape the dough into pasta shapes. Also included are a plastic wrench tool, a plastic tool to push the dough, a small cleaning tool, metal clips, and a storage case for the pasta plates. Complete directions and some basic pasta dough recipes are included. --Marcie Bovetz

Customer Reviews

I wish I had read the reviews here first and saved my $$$
I didn't bother coming here first because Amazon won't ship this attachment to Australia.

Anyway, I finally got the thing the other day, after a lot of trials and tribulations, from a local store that was able to get it for me. And after all the effort and waiting to get it, what a huge letdown. I honestly expected more from KitchenAid.

I have not used the grinder to grind - I didn't need a food grinder. I only purchased it to make pasta, and the plates are made to be used with the food grinder only.

I have worked as a professional cook, have successfully made hundreds or maybe even thousands of kilos of from-scratch fresh pasta in my life, and have never come across such a reputable manufacturer offering such a poorly designed product as this. Shame on you, KitchenAid.

For years, I've used my little Italian hand-cranked pasta maker, and thought I'd try this one because it would allow me to make tubular macaroni. I also thought the extrusion process would be easier than cranking. Not true.

As others have said, getting the consistency just-so for extrusion is tricky. A couple of batches ended up in the rubbish.

The object is to continue to drop walnut-sized pieces of dough into the tube, while also catching the pasta as it comes out of the machine. Because it tends to get warm and stick together in one huge blob, people on the KitchenAid boards have suggested sprinkling the emerging pasta with flour. And for this, you need three hands. Those of us lucky enough to have been born with three arms may find it a breeze, but the rest of us will struggle. And this is not even to mention the additional mess (and wastage) of the sprinkled flour! By the time I was finished (or rather, surrendered), the place looked like an explosion in a flour mill!).

The first disk I started with was the noodle disk, and then went to the lasagne disk.

I can't see how the lasagne disk can be used for ravioli, as it has a "join" in tbe middle of the dough (which can be seen as a transparent streak. This is because the dough is actully extruded from this disk in two pieces which join when they are dropping from the disk). I can't see that pasta holding up to being filled and boiled.

The instruction booklet (it was the European version) was a letdown - only one recipe - "Basic Egg Noodle dough". The recipe in English was in the "home style" volume measurement of cups, whereas the European measurements were in weight (used by professional cooks, because it's more precise). I used the European ones, except that was difficult to translate the names of the ingredients (KA, please give us weight recipes along with the volume measurement ones, in English). I couldn't believe that the KA website doesn't have any recipes! Do they really want to sell these things?

The instructions could have been clearer. I expected to drop a walnut-sized piece of dough into the machine, and have at least something come out. But the first piece is for the 'screw'. It takes until the second piece and beyond, before you start seeing pasta. They could've mentioned that, as I thought I was doing something wrong.

I do not recommend spending money on this pasta maker (the food grinder might be good. I haven't tried it). The only thing this purportedly does that my hand-cranked one doesn't is tubular macaroni, and after seeing how it handled simple fettucine, I have my doubts about it (also, the instructions said that macaroni could not be dried and kept, but had to be used within 4 hours of making, which may not always be practical). I've decided that if I need macaroni, I'll buy it! The rest will be more than adequately handled by my dependable Atlas machine (for which I now intend to get the add-on motor).

Now, I think I'll go to ebay and list this attachment, since I have no need for the grinder part, and the pasta function is pretty dismal.

Glob-esque noodles, time consuming...
As a pasta enthusiast (but amateur cook...), I've used everything from a hand-crank pasta roller (only works with 2 people unless you buy the motor!) to this Kitchen Aid attachment. From this pasta attachment, the noodles immediately chunk together, and require extremely delicate effort to get apart. Don't even try ot use a non-egg noodle recipe or semolina flour recipe - the dough, while tastier - takes too long to stiffen up without the eggs, and clumps into globs, not noodles! I thought I'd save time and money by buying this pasta extruder - but it's frustrating and takes forver to get the delicate noodles apart. (We're not even going to mention time spent cleaning the attachment...)

The better solution? Well, apart from re-designing the attachment (Why are the extrusion holes in a CIRCULAR FORMATION?!?!?!), this is what I'm going to try: Kitchen Aid also makes a pasta roller attachment, much like the old-fashioned hand crank + motor combination. It seems like a much better idea. Buy it - try it - I know I'm going to. Hope this attachment works better then the first!

(By the way - I really do love my Kitchen Aid - even Einstein came up with bad ideas...)

SOME GOOD, SOME NOT SO GOOD
I bought this product because of its dual function of grinding food and extruding pasta. The thought of having the ability to grind my own meat (always better tasting!)had great appeal to me as well as being able to make fresh pasta. I have used this item for both several times and I am completely satisfied with the grinders ability to grind meat. I have read reviews from some that this function of the grinder was not worth the money or the effort. I disagree. I have had NO PROBLEMS grinding meat. The key is not to overstuff the grinder itself. Cut the meat in strips (not cubes) and, one at a time, place them in the feeder chute and the grinder will feed itself. There is not even any need to "stuff" the meat down into the auger. In other words, follow directions and the grinder plastic housing will not break (no need to even put weight on it!), nothing will back up into the mixerr housing itself, and the meat will not become clogged in the feeder. A little patience will go a long way to adding life to this product.

The pasta plates are a little different story. While it is fun to make different kinds of non-flat noodles, and the dough extrudes just fine through the plates, it is difficult to keep the noodles from sticking together as they come out. I have to say, however, that I had the same problem with my manual pasta roller and cutters. Maybe making homemade pasta is quite an art? I'm starting to think so.

Want to grind meat?? Get this. Want to make pasta?? Beware.