We won’t go so far as to say we think making fresh pasta is easy, but rolling out super thin sheets of dough and cutting them into tender, springy strands is absolutely satisfying and fun, at least if you have a good pasta maker in your kitchen. Not to mention that a counter full of beautiful coils of fresh noodles is guaranteed to impress whoever you’re hosting for dinner. Pasta makers offer consistent, uniformly even sheets for making lasagna, ravioli, and noodles of all kinds.
This newer version also improved the one thing about the old Philips that disappointed us: The lack of pasta shaping discs. While the old model came with just four, this one comes with six or eight depending on the retailer , adding tagliatelle, pappardelle, angel hair, and a thick spaghetti , plus the original penne, lasagna, fettuccini, and spaghetti. Cleaning was actually quite easy—and in general, we’ve found that cleaning home extruders is easier than cleaning pasta rollers.