Updated on Jul. 01, 2024
Take spaghetti night to the next level with homemade noodles. Our Prep Kitchen Manager tested nine models to find the best pasta maker on the market. You may just think you moved to Italy!
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My very first experience making homemade pasta was many, many years ago. My best friend and I made pasta by hand—no roller, no cutter—then we hung it all over the open kitchen cabinet doors to dry. While we had fun, using a pasta maker makes the process easier, faster and with much less mess to clean up.
To help you narrow down the best pasta makers on the market, I tested nine of the top brands. Here are my four favorites.
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As the wider version of the classic Marcato Atlas Pasta Machine, the Atlas 180 produces more pasta in less time. Uniting simplicity with versatility, it features a 9-numbered adjustable dial, so you can roll homemade pasta to your preferred thickness—.8mm to 4mm—at the touch of a button.
Using the machine was a breeze: I shaped my homemade pasta dough into a rectangle about 0.5-inches thick before feeding into the roller to form thin sheets. I then fed it through the cutters to shape the noodles. From start to finish, I had perfectly cut pasta in under five minutes!
The Marcato features two pasta cutters for making spaghetti and fettuccine. And you can purchase up to 12 additional attachments for other types of noodles, including pappardelle, linguine and capellini (talk about endless pasta-bilities!).
I especially liked that the Marcato’s roller is nearly 7-inches wide (which is wider than similar manual models on the market), which meant each crank of the handle generated more pasta in less time. I was also impressed by the sharp cutter blades, which resulted in perfectly cut noodles every time.
While this best pasta maker is a little pricier than other manual models on the market, its performance and time-saving features make it well worth the extra cost. Plus it was extremely fun and easy to use—just load the dough and crank the handle. Now you just need a pasta sauce and you’ll be on your way to an authentic Italian experience.
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If you already own a KitchenAid Stand Mixer, you’re in luck. The brand’s 3-Piece Pasta Roller & Cutter Attachment Set is compatible with any KitchenAid stand mixer model, so you can save space and money by simply purchasing the attachments. And if you don’t currently own a mixer, here’s how to choose which KitchenAid stand mixer is right for you.
Out of the box, the stainless-steel attachments—which include a roller and two cutters for fettuccine and spaghetti—are heavy duty and very well made. Each part attaches easily and securely to the mixer’s power hub for motorized operation. The roller has a dial on the side, so you can adjust your pasta thickness to seven varying levels, and from there you set your mixer to speed level two to convert your KitchenAid into a pasta-making machine.
While I love the simplicity of a manual pasta maker, I have to admit that after using the KitchenAid for a few minutes, I was ready to trade in my hand-crank machine for this beauty. Having my extra hand free, it was so much easier to roll, cut and catch the pasta. And as a result, I had more uniform sheets and noodles! I also liked how visible the process was with the KitchenAid; with the manual models, I was catching the noodles in the back without a good view of what was happening.
The only drawback is that the roller and cutters are separate, and have to be attached one at a time. This means rolling all the dough first and having to stack the pasta sheets (I used parchment paper in between each layer), and then attaching the cutter to cut all the pasta. While I thought this process might take awhile, I was pleasantly surprised to find it didn’t take any longer than rolling and cranking by hand.
While this 3-piece set will be enough to get you started, KitchenAid also offers an assortment of other noodle-making attachments and accessories. Here’s our review of the KitchenAid Pasta Press.
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