The electric fresh pasta makers allow you to roll out and cut fresh pasta with extreme ease and without using rolling pins or hand tools to divide the sheets.
Thanks to metal rollers operated either electrically or with a crank handle, these tools make it possible to effortlessly roll out lasagne sheets and - by using the specific pasta cutter attachments - obtain different shapes of long or handmade pasta.
Pasta makers are all equipped with smooth rollers for rolling out the dough, allowing this last to be kneaded and reduce its thickness while providing elasticity.
The cutting rollers finally allow cutting the pasta sheet obtained, creating the desired pasta.
Pasta machines consist of a main unit, to be fixed to a stable surface, such as a table.
An attachment is mounted to the unit where entering the dough to roll out, allowing you to create the desired pasta shape. The dough is then passed through slots which thickness has to be adjusted beforehand using a wheel.
Using a special pasta maker allows you to obtain a thin sheet of pasta quickly and easily, without too much effort, as opposed to creating the pasta sheet manually using a rolling pin.
Another advantage of making fresh pasta at home is that you can only use the ingredients you want.
This turns to be very useful, for example, in case of people with coeliac disease or vegans, who may have difficulty finding pasta without gluten or animal derivatives on the market.