Home Made pasta shapes

[judydawn]

Thanks Maddy, that's the site but be darned if it would work for me as a URL.  I know you have to be spot on with the wording but I checked what I had written down against yours and it was exactly the same.  I will never understand computers 

[Linda]

Oh my!!!   

I make pasta but had no idea you could do that!!!!  I'm sooooo impressed.

I've got a bench top pasta roller that I picked up from the op shop for $10 yrs ago and it's great but can only do sheets, fettucini and spaghetti. I've got a Kenwood but dreamed of a nice red Kitchen Aid on my bench (well until I got my TM that is.................)

Looks amazing though - well done Julie.

[JulieO]

Thanks everyone, I am pretty pleased with it and haven't tried all the shapes yet. 

[maddy]

Thanks Maddy, that's the site but be darned if it would work for me as a URL. 

Judy, did you just copy the link location, and just click paste on your message?

[judydawn]

No Maddy, I don't know how to do that.  I do it the long way, write it by hand then type it in my posting.  I always click on it in preview to make sure it works and it just wouldn't and I couldn't see where I was going wrong.

[achookwoman]

Maddy and JD,  you are both such nice ladies.  I tried to look and came up with nothing,   Now you have provided me with the site I can look and see what best suits.   I have all the bits for mincing and making sausages,   and a pasta rolling machine ,  but would love one that makes macaroni.

[meganjane]

No Maddy, I don't know how to do that.  I do it the long way, write it by hand then type it in my posting.  I always click on it in preview to make sure it works and it just wouldn't and I couldn't see where I was going wrong.

Judy, it's easy. Just click in the box at the top of the screen where the URL is and then hold down your 'Ctrl' button on your keyboard while pressing the 'c' key. This copies the URL to your clipboard. Once it's copied to your clipboard, you can navigate away from that page, or close it completely.
To paste the copied URL, go to your reply box and click in the box. Hold down the control button again and click the 'v' key.

[meganjane]

And, I want one of those Julie! I have a KA and love it for certain things, but must admit I hardly use it much lately. But to make pasta shapes...wow!

[judydawn]

http://www.kenwood-australia.com/products/product_details.asp?Model=KM300

Thanks MJ, look I just did it    Your instructions were so easy to follow for a dummy like me and it is so exciting to learn yet another thing I can do on this computer to save me a lot of time. 
Chookie, write those instructions down - you might be able to use them too    Then again, this is something you may already know how to do.

[meganjane]

Well done Judy!

[Snoozie]

How do you know what model your kenwood is? LOL

I found http://www.kenwoodworld.com/en/Products/Kitchen-Machines/Cooking-Chef/Cooking-Chef/ whilst looking for the attachments lol

ETA: It's an A703C so what model accessories would I  buy for it?

[JulieO]

would love one that makes macaroni.

Chookie, I made some fusilli today (spirals) and they are drying at the moment.  Will take a photo later, I'm so happy with them.

When I made the dough the other day I used OO flour as that is what I always use when making pasta, but as the manual says to use plain flour, thought I'd try that today. It made the mixture so much drier than the other day and I had to add a  little more water to bring together best I could, but it was too difficult to really knead properly. Anyway, I started making the fusilli and some of the shapes weren't properly formed, still had the shape and markings on them, but not twisted.  No matter, as they came out, I quickly gave each one a bit of a twist (not a hardship) and put on the tea towel to dry and carried on. 
You add more dough to the hopper at the top when it's getting low.  Next minute the shapes that were coming out were perfectly formed I was amazed.  Kept adding more dough, then some were not so formed.  It's got me a bit puzzled, but I'm tending to think it was because some of the dough would have been more properly kneaded than some of the other.

Certainly not a big issue as it was easy to give a little twist as we went along, but next time I make the dough, I'm going to divide into either 2 or 3 pieces and try and give each one a good knead.  I found one big ball too hard to handle for my size hands, plus I'll go back to using the  OO flour.

I want to perfect making them, after seeing that it can do them perfectly.  It's obviously something I'm doing or not doing correctly, but with more playing around hopefully I'll suss it out.

I found even though this was only the second time using it, how much faster I was, knew what I needed to do without referring to the manual.  Can't wait to try some of the other shapes now, maybe tomorrow? 

[JulieO]

Ok here are a couple of photos, the second one shows at the bottom, 3 of the twists that I helped along.  I've also noticed that the colour of them are paler than the good ones.  As you can see not a huge difference but the good ones didn't have to be touched at all this is how they came out.

[Ceejay]

And chookie.....you can get a macaroni attachement! http://www.kenwood-australia.com/products/product_details.asp?Model=AT910
and here's the other one http://www.kenwood-australia.com/products/product_details.asp?Model=AT936A

I have an old Kenwood Chef 701A and it isn't compatible with the newer attachments... I have quite a few of the original ones though and I still use it occasionally for cake making as well.

[Snoozie]

I didn't think mine would be compatible with the latest and greated CeeJay but I'm not even sure what attachments I should be looking out for lmao!

I'm in awe of these excellent pasta makers!