- Smooth, manual, crank operation for exceptional control.
- Good, Functional Pasta Machine at a Value Price.
- Many Optional Attachments (including angel hair, trenette, spaghetti, lasagnette, lasagna and ravioli).
- The cutter head is removable for easy cleaning. A hand crank, clamp, directions, and recipes are all included.
- Roller is 6 inches wide.
Product Description
Villaware Al Dente Pasta Machine is great for individual or family use. It is a great functional pasta machine at a value price with many optional attachments. Dough Roller unit is 6 inches wide perfect for making lasagna noodles!Amazon.com Review
Looking to impress that special someone in your life? What better way than with homemade pasta. Villaware, a tradition of classic Italian kitchenware since 1906, provides the tools that make it easy. The Al Dente pasta machine, made of heavyweight chrome steel, is great for rolling dough and has a double-sided, 6-inch-wide blade for cutting spaghetti or fettuccine. The steel rollers are adjustable for kneading and there are seven thickness settings to accommodate individual preferences. Its manually controlled crank offers exceptional control, and a removable cutter head makes cleanup simple, while measuring only 6 inches wide–so you won’t have to give up much counter space. The only drawback is that after tasting fresh, homemade pasta, it’s hard to go back to the packaged kind.
This easy-to-use pasta machine provides a great way to enjoy pasta just like they do in Italy. So pour that glass of red wine, toss a green salad, take the garlic bread out of the oven, and be ready to wow family and friends with a favorite pasta dish. Optional accessories are available for making angel hair, trenette, spaghetti, lasagnette, lasagna, and ravioli. Villaware makes it possible for anyone to make pasta that looks and tastes like it was made by the pros. Directions and a recipe book are also included to help you get started. This pasta machine carries a one-year warranty. –Catie Unger
Bought the full set about a year ago. Used about a dozen times. First the Angel hair attachment went bad. Today the main roller went bad as well. The gears are worn and the teeth are hitting one another on top. It is now useless. I will never buy anything from this company again.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is my first pasta machine, and it was bought based on price point. I can now appreciate what the differences in price might be to a more expensive product, but as I titled this “For All I Know”, I’m not sure yet whether the $80 Italian made pasta machine does certain work better.
I assume that it probably does.
The rolling works quite well, and the mechanism, while slightly imbued with a cheap feeling, rolls in progressive thinness with admirable aplomb. Down to the thinnest setting the machine has ground out the miles thus far, and I can’t complain. For the purpose of making ravioli, I wouldn’t be too disappointed, and the sheets are not the issue.
The cutting attachment, however, is another story. It has not yet been able to create a run of pasta where I don’t wind up with two strands still attached with an indentation between them. Even backing up and moving forward in stutter step is not sufficient to make whole wheat pasta fail to come out “double-wide.”
The roller, again, is pristine, and quite lovely. The cutter is a debacle. I only wish I could just change out the thirty dollars towards a machine where at least I would feel justified in feeling this irritated at the concomitant lack of effective function.
Perhaps a rolling, pasta making apparatus must by nature cost $80 to be good enough to evenly roll and cut pasta. I suppose that is what I have learned here. Cheap was good enough to show me that I’d like to keep on doing this, so it’s a small loss on this villaware machine to find that I’d like a decent pasta machine for myself/wife/family.
Thanks? I guess? The lesson was at least a cheap one.
Rating: 2 / 5
When my husband opened it for Father’s Day, it was broken. When I looked at the Amazon site to find out where I got it, it said the Book Rack – here it say VillaWare. I have been trying to track down the seller and couldn’t find it on the web. Now I can finally send it back. It’s taken me days to locate the seller. I have lost the receipt b/c it was a month ago that I bought the Al Dente Pasta Machine.
Rating: 1 / 5
I recieved this product tossed in a large box with out any type of bubble protection. It was so dented from being loose in the box I couldn’t even give it to the person I bought it for. I’ve emailed Amazon.com but they haven’t even replied. Guess it’s not important to them.
Rating: 2 / 5
I brought this machine and when I open it up I found it used and abused the machine is a piece of junk and not worth the price paid. very cheap, parts were all bent.
Rating: 1 / 5