KitchenAid 5KSMPEXTA Gourmet Pasta Press with Six Plates (Optional Accessory for KitchenAid Stand Mixers)

The hardest part is making the dough. Once ready, it is super easy & quick - maybe 5 minutes to make a cookie sheet full of rigatoni. It is time consuming to clean the plates, but the rest of the unit cleans easily. A perfect pairing for the flat noodle attachment if you like to make your own pasta.

Just my first use but seems very well made. I love to make fresh pasta now I can make many more kinds of pasta.

ive been making pasta for almost 50 years, I make my own pasta almost everyday, this machine works well, it’s very difficult to clean, I’ve made some semolina pasta and dried it, works well, even with egg fresh pasta, I’ve even made my own pastina with this, it’s kind of fun too, just so difficult to clean, so if you use it, make a lot of pasta, so it’s worth cleaning. I’d recommend this product, nice to be able to make ziti and penne with a machine, it’s very time consuming to do by hand

Making pasta dough is easy....once you get over the false fear about it. Then along comes this tool allowing me to make amazing hearty rigatoni and other forms of pasta that DO NOT COMPARE to dry store bought pasta (yet still delicious go to items).Using this was second nature and I highly recommend it. #paulscooking

So far I really like the results. Compared to the kitchen aid roller and cutter for spaghetti and fettuccine; the time spent waiting for pasta is much longer. Solid product but don't expect it to extrude pasta quickly. Give yourself 10 extra minutes of cook time.

This device is easy to use and clean for making homemade rigatoni and other shapes. After doing extensive research for the best rigatoni doughs, I decided to use the recipe in the operator’s manual and it was perfect!!!! I’m anxious to try a new shape each time I use it

Easy to install and use.

So I make fresh pasta about once a week, this item is great to make some noodles you might not normally make by hand. I think if you use the pasta maker like I do it’s a good value for the money but if you are a once a year pasta maker... I wouldn’t recommend it.