KitchenAid Pasta Roller KSMPRA 3-Piece Set

This KitchenAid attachment set is the real deal with authentic quality finishing. They work very well with our tilt mixer. The fit to the mixer is perfect. This is important as some knock-offs don’t fit well to the mixer and may cause damage to parts. The pasta roller does its work effortlessly and gives the perfect sheet of the desired thickness. The cutter is sharp and gives very even and clean cut strings of pasta that don’t stick together. Lastly, can’t say enough about the quality of the set. So glad to have paid slightly more for a quality set that really works instead of settling for less expensive versions.

 What’s better than pasta for dinner? Fresh pasta for dinner! Well worth the time and effort. This thing is a beast. We accidentally made enough pasta for a small army when all was said and done. Delicious and has a completely different texture to it.

Ok so this thing is fantastic. Very few errors when it comes to pasta pressing and cutting.
The only issue I have with it is, its difficult to clean. They give you a brush to clean the roller but thats it. You cant submerge this in hot water to clean all the pasta off, you just gotta wait for it to dry and fall off. Apparently, you can dissemble these and clean them but Ive yet to figure it out. lots of old dry pasta clinking around on the inside

Item seems to be really well made and worked ok the first time we used it, except the fettuccine seemed to be a bit of a mess on the edges. On closer inspection, and issue came up: the “new” product sold was not new.

I ordered this through amazon and amazon was the seller. The “new” item that arrived had broken plastic guides on the underside of the fettucine maker, bent plastic parts on the bottom of the spaghetti maker, and even the roller looked like it had been used. The three parts did not come in any protective plastic. I returned these, and reordered another. The second box came with the roller and cutters in plastic protective bags, with none of the plastic underside guides bent or pins misaligned.

So, if you are ordering, there are plastic parts on the underside of each of the roller and two cutters, but they act primarily as guides for the dough afterwards. THESE SHOULD BE STRAIGHT, NOT BENT, AND DEFINITELY NOT CRACKED.

Moral of the story: for 200 bucks, check your “new” item

As expected for any KitchenAid parts.. fantastic addition to my KitchenAid

The amount of time this saves makes it 100% worth it.

Amazon has several different pasta ROLLING sets available (they also have presses, which make “shaped” noodles like rigatoni, macaroni, etc).

Differences in the sets:
The least expensive comes with only the sheet roller, which is the most vital. You use the sheet roller to get your dough to the right thinness, and any other attachments are only for cutting.

There’s another set which comes only with capellini (essentially angel hair) and lasagna CUTTERS (again, roller is vital), and then this set which comes with the roller, a spaghetti cutter, and a linguine cutter.

If you’re on a tighter budget, I would say to save for this specific set. It comes with the roller (which you need to use any of the KitchenAid cutting attachments) and two cutting attachments, and overall is more cost effective than buying the roller, then the other attachments later. The most time consuming part of making pasta is the rolling, and even if you’re in great shape all of that rolling will kill your upper back after a while. THICK pasta is 3mm thick—essentially the same as a cotton bed sheet. And honestly, having the machine do the cutting for you is just so much prettier and more uniform than anything you can do by hand.

The nuts and bolts:
For your first pass-through, you set the dial to setting 1. From there, you go to setting 3. The booklet has a handy chart to tell you what setting different types of pasta need. For ravioli, it recommends setting 4. It may seem convoluted to roll each piece of dough three times at different thicknesses, but this actually kneads the dough and gives you a better pasta. For what it’s worth, by the end of my batch I was rolling at 1 and then rolling at 4 and it worked just fine. If you’re making an ultra thin pasta that requires setting 2, for example, I DEFINITELY wouldn’t skip these in-between thicknesses.

I threw together a quick egg and semolina dough to make mushroom ravioli and try this puppy out. I rolled the dough into thick cylinders and then smooshed them down to maybe a third-inch thickness to watch the magic happen.

And oh, this is what Harry must have felt like when he first saw Hogwarts. I was RIVETED. It works so quickly, and so smoothly. It took roughly 10 seconds to do what would have taken me 5-10 minutes to do by hand. Each time I changed the thickness dial, I was more entertained. It’s the simple things in life.

When I ran out of filling, I used my extra dough to try out the spaghetti attachment. The most time consuming part of the process was just switching out the roller attachment for the spaghetti attachment, after I got my dough to the right thinness. The cuts themselves are all uniform and beautiful, easy. I was drying the spaghetti instead of cooking it, and found that the way it cuts had a lot of them sticking together. However, if I’d been boiling it straight away there would’ve been no problem. It gets the job done.

Clean up is simple. You’re not supposed to submerge in water, so I just used a pastry brush to poke about the mechanism and make sure no flour was stuck in there. Wipe clean with a towel and it’s ready for storage.

The only odd thing is that they give the same booklet for this set as one that comes with all 5 of the different cutting attachments, which apparently comes with a cleaning brush. I had other brushes I can use for cleaning, but if somebody wasn’t aware of the guide being for a different set, they’d get confused over the brush thing. The booklet still has all of the information for the attachments this set includes, so it works.

I’ll be trying out the linguine roller sometime next week, and I’ll update my review with any random nuances if things come up.

Tl;dr—buy this. Become the Italian Nonna you know you are in your heart.