Imperia Italian Double Cutter Pasta Machine

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If you’re planning on making pasta at home for the first time, the Imperia 150 will is a good choice. You’ll be able to make a lot of different pasta shapes, especially when you get creative with the lasagne sheets. Think of ravioli, tortellini and a whole lot more handmade pasta shapes. Yes, the Imperia 150 is a great pasta maker! Good quality, easy to use and its one of the best selling manual machines for a good reason. I love the look of the machine with its shiny exterior and the classic wooden hand crank. Design and Ease of Use: As we performed our tests, we noted whether any of the machines were especially complicated to set up and break down, as well as if they had any features to make managing the dough simpler. We paid special attention to how smoothly and easily the crank turned the rollers and cutters with manual models. For extruder machines, we also judged the simplicity of the dough-making and kneading process that comes before pasta-shaping.

Adjust settings to suit your needs or the look and taste of your dishes with a number of accessories and attachments that allow for complete control of the produced pasta. This versatile machine may have made the tastiest pasta of our testing, but the problem is that the whole batch wasn't equally tasty. The Starfrit continually kneads the dough while squeezing it through the die, and the part at the end winds up overkneaded. The beginning of the batch had perfect texture, but the dough got too springy to push through the holes effectively. Where the Philips Plus did better with a larger batch, this machine did better with a smaller one. Customers are saying: Much easier to use than a manual machine, you have all your hands free to help evenly feed the dough into the machine after you've levelled it out with a rolling pin, and it's super sturdy and stays put on the worktop. In regards to quality, the Imperia 150 is a good machine. Made in Italy and it has been on the market for a very long time. Choosing a manual machine, it’s either the Imperia or the Marcato 150. Should you buy the Imperia 150? How well the pasta makers made different types of pasta: Following the included directions and using the same dough recipe with each machine, we made batches of wide-cut fettuccine and narrow-cut spaghetti. We also made a batch of penne with each extruder machine, and tested out any other included cutters for making different shapes (such as ravioli, angel hair, and more.) We took notes on dough texture and evenness, and whether the individual noodles cut and separated cleanly.

This pasta maker may not have been the best performer in all of our tests, but it was a good performer, and it includes more accessories than others. Its friendly price and included ravioli roller are its best features. If you want to make filled pasta, the CucinaPro gets you an entire pasta-making system for what you might pay for just a ravioli attachment for another machine. Roundup: If we look at the technical specifications of the two pasta machines, the Marcato is the better choice. The Wellness rollers that keep out any harmful metal out of your pasta is a big plus compared to the Imperia, as health is very important in our food. Customers are saying: Takes a bit of practice but makes lovely fresh pasta and once you know what you're doing it's so easy to use all the time! The pasta maker does come with a starter guide for pasta recipes and how to make the perfect dough. This will let you immediately get started with your CucinaPro Imperia 150, but if you want even more recipes or know how to make different kind of pasta dough: we got you covered.

Whether you're looking to make fettucine, farfalle or conchigle with your Imperia pasta maker you'll find the right model and the right attachment you need. This only applies to extruder machines, but each model has an ideal batch size. If the mixing chamber is too full or too empty, the dough can get over-kneaded, which makes it harder to push through the dies. You can end up with uneven-textured noodles, or not be able to get the dough through at all. Different brands performed totally differently in this respect during testing—some worked better while completely full, and others liked smaller batches. The Imperia Series attachments are diverse and allow you to make all your favorites. Some staples for popular pasta dishes include a Cavetelli attachment and a Ravioli pasta maker attachment, which will let you produce perfect sheets of fresh Ravioli in one go.Customers are saying: Only one review claiming the instructions aren't that helpful, but this is one of John Lewis' best selling products with five of them added to buyers' baskets in the last 48 hours alone. We'd be inclined to say no news is good news. Both pasta makers feature a 6-inch wide roller, which means that the maximum width of the dough sheets are 6 inches. This width is perfect for when you are making homemade pasta, as it will provide enough pasta for you and your family (and friends of course). That being said, the width of 6 inch is an almost universal standard on all consumer pasta machines. Both the Marcato Atlas 150 and the Imperia 150 are from an original and high quality pasta roller brand. Both manufacture their pasta rollers in Italy and have been at in since the early 1900’s. That are quite some years worth of experience building, improving and designing these machines. This is the time to attach the cutting blades onto the machine. You'll find this very easy to do - they just slide on the top. Set the blades to whichever type of pasta you want using the same switch on the front. Smooth and easy to manipulate pasta sheets are useful for a whole range of dishes and give you complete control.