Customer Reviews

Atlas Pasta Machine w/Motor Set - Made in Italy

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I love gnocchi and with this machine it is a snap.My aunt has one she bought 20 years ago and it still works great. Just make sure you follow the recipe included with the machine. Make sure you don't have sticky dough or I promise you will never want to try it again. I will be buying more of these to give to our daughters.

I had an older Atlas 150 and loved it. It's done well for me over the years. I wanted the motor, but I had to get a whole new set because the motor would not fit on the old hand crack one.

When I got it, I found the machine minus the motor hadn't changed much over the years. The motor sounds sturdy and the thing went together pretty easily. My grip is the motor is SLOW. It takes forever to roll out a batch made with a half dozen eggs. Using the motor won't speed the job up, it will slow it down. So only two stars, as the product's feature is the motor.

For 20 years I limped along, trying to make pasta with an extruder made by a long defunct company. With this motorized Atlas I can finally make noodles that aren't bunched together at both ends from slicing them off the extruder die, and don't congeal into lumps under the weight of the other noodles coming out of the machine. It's true that I can't make macaroni with this machine, but I couldn't really make macaroni with the extruder either. All I could make with the extruder were short cylindrical noodles with air pockets inside. The ends were always collapsed shut by my cutting them to length as they left the extruder die.

Using this machine, I soon developed a rhythm. First I passed a portion of dough through the flattening rollers on progressively tighter settings, until it was smooth and thin. As I did that, I also cut the prepared dough to the desired length of the pasta. Then I moved the motor to the cutting rollers I intended to use, and started passing the lengths of dough through those. I caught each batch of the cut pasta on a stick that came with the pasta drying stand, and with that I transferred the finished pasta to the drying stand.

I'm very pleased with this machine, and so is my husband, who has had to suffer through a number of unwise purchases of mine, such as that pasta extruder I bought 20 years ago.

The atlas pasta machine is unbelievably easy to use. watching perfect pasta come out of the machine is like watching a baby being born. The electric motor makes the job easy for one person although a second set of hands makes the job go quicker. Some other reviewers thought the machine was too slow. I felt that it went at just the right speed and certainly is not slow.

I have been using mid-east brand semolina wheat and have found it to work perfectly with the pasta maker.

We bought the machine based on reviews we had seen posted on Amazon. I'm glad we got the motorized version as it frees up that second hand to help catch the dough coming off the rollers.

Purchased a hand held unit which was another brand and it was a pain to use. Trying to feed the sheets and crank at the same time was impossible. Also sheets would not go through the press evenly.

My new Atlas Pasta Machine with Motor is fantastic. I have used it quite a few time and I love it. Turn it one and you can feed through the sheets and still have your hands free. I would highly recommend this product. The quality of the machine is top notch.

I decided that I wanted to try to make homemade pasta after eating dinner at Lupo by Wolfgang Puck in Las Vegas. So I read the reviews on Amazon and decided that this on was the best quality. The reviews were accurate, this pasta cutter works great. I have been making a lot of pasta and my family and friends can't believe the difference between home made pasta and dried pasta. I highly recommend this for anyone who wants to make pasta.

I couldn't decide between a machine that mixed, rolled and cut pasta, or, one that just rolled and cut pasta. I went with the latter because it has more cutting options and I already owned a Kitchen Aide mixer (for kneading the dough).

Bottom line: great pasta machine! I recommend it without hesitation!