Making your own pasta isn't as tricky as you may possibly assume, and the end product is simply amazing, incomparable to the dried stuff you probably generally get in the neighborhood store. Whilst it's possible to make pasta without the benefit of a pasta maker machine, it can be quite hard work and the end result, unless you're a professional, may not be so good. Pasta makers come in 2 main varieties - hand-crank and electric, both types do in essence the same job, but an automatic device is faster and more straightforward to use and may well have extra features.
A typical pasta recipe consists of nothing other than a few simply ingredients: flour (normally durum wheat or semolina), egg, salt, olive oil and water. All of these ingredients are mixed with each other, by hand in a bowl or using food processor, until the desired consistency is obtained - if it is getting too tacky then you can add some more flour; if it's too dry then you'll want to add a bit more water. Then, after you've let the dough rest a short while, you will have to knead the pasta dough for roughly 5 minutes. Now you're ready to get out the pasta maker machine. Whichever style of pasta maker you opt for, the approach is more or less the same.
You have to set the machine to its thickest setting and roll the dough out by pulling it through the device at least three times - if you have a manual design then you have got to crank a handle to achieve this; an electric or automatic unit will do all the hard work for you. Afterward you adjust the machine once more, selecting the next lowest thickness setting, and pass the pasta dough through three times more. The action is repeated until you end up with a sheet of thin, smooth pasta. After this, you need to cut the sheet to the required length. At this moment the next function of the pasta maker machine comes into play. All the machines have a cutting function to cut the pasta dough into strips. Merely decide on the size you need and put the sheets through the pasta cutter. That's it! Just leave the completed pasta for an hour or so to dry - a pasta drying rack would help with this bit - and it's ready to cook.
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