I had to buy a new pasta roller today....
- Thread starter Damocles
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I didn't think those things ever broke! But mine would no longer function. I've had it since I was 20...
So sad.
Got another hand roller. I do love the fresh pasta.
I just made a huge pan of lasagne two nights ago. I froze a lot of it, the factory made stuff is all crap now I think.
Marcato Atlas 150 with fettuccini and angle hair cutter.
Dry pasta is almost always garbage, and it takes so little time to make my own that I wonder why people don't do it more often. Though it takes a good day to make a solid ragu for bolognese it isn't like you have to stand over it all day once you get it simmering and it makes the house smell so frickin' good. I'm salivating now. I can't wait until the new machine gets here.
I spent 30 years making fun of people who make pasta ("No I dont make pasta, I dont make hamburger buns either...why would I?"). Then my wife bought me the Atlas and promised to make it well worth my while if I would try it just once (Hubba Hubba).
"SOLD!"
Its not just the quality of the product, it is the ritual in getting there, partly knowing that what I am doing was done way back into time.