CucinaPro 177 Pasta Fresh Pasta Machine
by CucinaPro

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Product Summary

• Makes fettuccini and spaghetti
• Made of a chrome coated steel
• Attachments sold separately
• Includes easy-to-follow directions and recipes to get your started
• Heavyweight chromed steel construction

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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of CucinaPro 177 Pasta Fresh Pasta Machine

Customer Review: DISREGARD NEGATIVE REVIEWS
Summary: 5 Stars

The Imperia machine is easy to use, very cheap, and the results are extraordinarily better than store-bought pasta. Frankly, there is no justified comparison between the two.

Only a few essential items must be kept in mind, to reiterate from other positive reviews:

1. The dough MUST be on the dry-side. You can very easily make dough in a food processor: It will take about two minutes and involves simply flour and eggs (you may add a little water or oil, or other additives such as spinach, if you like). Mix a couple cups of Flour with three eggs, pulverize into a ball, then continue to add flour until the dough is no longer sticky. You may need to push it down and break it up a few times, and may lose a little bit in the bottom of the processor, but it's just flour and eggs (!!!)...

2. Buy the motor. It makes the process of producing Linguine or Cappellini a thousand times easier. Yes, it's $70, and a bit flimsy, but it's worth it in the end. Considering the unit itself is under 40 dollars, this shouldn't be a hardship.

3. When putting the pasta through the roller, DUST IT WITH FLOUR THOROUGHLY FIRST. This prevents sticking. Flour = No Sticky. Sticking in machine = Not enough flour. I know this is a tough concept, I know flour is really expensive and hard to come by, and I know it's really time-consuming to spend an extra three seconds dusting a ball of dough in flour before rolling it out, but it works.

4. If you lose a little bit of pasta, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. It's just flour and eggs. You're going to lose a little, or have it enter the rollers a bit off-center, your first few tries. It's NOT a big deal. You'll become a pro in no-time.

5. DO NOT COOK FRESH PASTA MORE THAN A FEW SECONDS!!! The reviewer above who commented on the "inability" to get fresh pasta "al dente" must be being facetious: Either that, or Italians have been purchasing their dry pasta in store-bought plastic bags for the past, oh, 700 years (?!?!?!?!?!). Store-bought dry pasta is a disgrace, and the fact that it takes 8-10 minutes to cook proves that fact. Fresh pasta cooks perfectly in about ten seconds: Personally, I always turn the heat off when I add the pasta, and drain it as quickly as I can get the pot to the colliander.

I hope this helps. You will love fresh pasta if properly made and properly cooked, as store-bought pasta is a pathetic, industrialized equivalent of the real thing. For the above reviewer who feels that store-bought pasta is better than fresh pasta: Stick to McDonald's and Chinese Take-out... Leave the cooking to the rest of us.

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