Pinzon 5-9-Inch Pasta Maker
by Pinzon
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Pinzon 5-9-Inch Pasta Maker
Customer Review: I like it!
Summary: 5 Stars
It works well. I like it! If the noodles stick, you can add more and more flour to the dough until noodles can be cut well.Customer Review: Great pata maker, I love it
Summary: 5 Stars
I always love noodles and this pasta maker make me really happy ;) The size is perfect and it is very handy. I love it!Customer Review: The Pinzon name attracted me to this one...
Summary: 4 Stars
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After tasting a friend's homemade pasta, I knew there is just no comparison with the store-bought stuff. It was out of this world! I would recommend anyone who wants to try pasta-making to go with this model. I own a number of Pinzon products and have found the quality to be excellent.
The Pinzon pasta maker is not hard to handle. It looks to be the same size as an Imperia 150, which I've looked at in the stores, right down to the same shape and noodle types. The Pinzon has three more dough-roller settings (9) than the Imperia (6), and the notches in the knob are covered in the Pinzon one as opposed to being open (and subject to getting dough shoved inside) like the Imperia's knob. It's a bit hard to read the settings, which are etched into the steel knob cover, but once you get the feel of it it won't matter.
I do wish the Pinzon handle knob was not plastic, however. I am really trying to eliminate all plastic from my kitchen. But it helps keep the price down, I'm sure. Also, the stainless steel portion of the handle slides through the end of the handle knob; I'd rather the end of the knob be solid instead of open.
When you get your pasta machine, or even before you get it, read up on advice on how to make the best pasta dough and how to care for your machine. I expect it's going to be roughly the same procedure for all manual pasta makers. I liked the recipe of 1/2 cup all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup semolina flour, and 1 egg, then only add water by dipping your fingers in water as you work the dough. Also be sure to let the dough rest half an hour before running it through the machine. I also read somewhere that you can clean your pasta machine by running a piece of bread or felt through it. (So far, I've taken the advice of one reviewer who said "never clean your pasta machine." That's kind of how I handle my cast iron skillet, swiping it out with a paper towel only. I haven't died yet.)
Oh, and I really appreciate the Italian reviewer who was able to compare the Pinzon with an Atlas. It makes me feel super-good about getting this pasta machine....
Customer Review: I was very skeptical of purchasing this but the price was right
Summary: 4 Stars
After I received the machine I checked it out. It was intuitive and I never even looked a the instruction sheet that came with it.
I read multiple comments about how the handle falls out when you use it but I have not found that to be a problem. Mounting it to the counter was an issue for me because of the way my counter is but I operated it without mounting it and found that it made it easy because I could move the machine as the pasta was cranking out and not worry about the dough folding onto itself and sticking as it came out. The cutting attachment has two sizes, thick spaghetti and fetticini, which were more than enough for me and I was thankful that it wasn't an additional cost.
I am a novice with pasta making. I bought a Kitchenaid and wanted the pasta attachment to that but wasn't sure I would even like it since I have never had real fresh pasta and the investment was substantially more. This was a nice starter machine and I am able to determine I LOVE FRESH PASTA! I really like this machine but will be passing it on to someone else because I will be getting the Kitchenaid attachment. I will only pass this machine on because the ease of use with an automated machine will be nicer. With this manual machine you have to feed the dough through, roll the dough and watch for the dough. Not bad, just requires a little attention to detail. I think I'm going to enjoy skipping a step.
All in all the price makes this a fabulous buy. It delivers just as promised and I think the people who had negative comments about it wanted it to function like an automatic one but didn't want to make the investment. You get more than you pay for but the performance does not exceed that of a manual machine.
Customer Review: Great little thing
Summary: 4 Stars
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
As the product name indicates the rollers are only 5 1/2 inch, which is much smaller than in regular pasta makers. I found it to be an actual advantage as narrower dough is much easier to handle.
I prepared some dough (flour, egg, salt and water) and run it through the rollers several times, going from the thickest to the thinnest setting. It worked very well, and dough got a great consistence. Switching between settings is very easy, but handle tends to fall out while rolling.
There are two cutters available - for thin and medium noodles. The trick is to keep feeding the cutters without stopping (or dough can get stuck to the top of machine) while catching the noodles at the other end... Maybe it's just me but I have always thought that pasta makers required at least three hands. But since the dough is narrow, I could pick the noodles up with one hand and hang them up to dry in one swift move.
All in all a great pasta maker. I am taking one star off because the handle is made of ugly brown plastic, that does not match the cool stainless steel body.