Customer Reviews

Delonghi PM1000 Pasta Maker

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Delonghi PM1000 Pasta Maker
I love my pasta maker, I bought a past maker 26 years ago and it was made by cusinart, I have been making homemade pasta for years, i used it so much after 26 years it is sqeeking and feeling hot, I was so afraid it would go out, i searched for another one just like it by cusinart, found out they do not make them anylonger. The internet is awsome I looked and looked and found the exact same one by Delonghi and bought it. I now have two and my first one is still going. I have told so many people about this great machine, i have read the reviews and some are not good, results in making pasta is failure, YOU have to be patient and follow recipe by the exact mm and grams. I still use the recipe from the Cusinart, i have pasta perfect never fail, i share with everyone who purchased this machine. I use a cusinart scale for dry indregients.. I would be lost without this machine. I have my water boiling and make the pasta in minutes, you can also make and freeze. I have made with so many children and they have so much fun, not messy at all, I now have a 15 month old granddaughter and can't wait to make with her. My Italian family love this machine and it has spoiled us. I say buy it, it seems to be getting more expensive everytime i see it. Could not be happier with this product.

I think this is an excellent product. Easy to use and clean. Makes large batches at a time. I thought the price was great compared to other online stores.

Makes wonderful noodles. Very well made product. Already had to replace one dye with no trouble.

I don't care for the continuous feed/extrude feature. I tried to find another "Pasta Express" machine but apparently is no longer available. The Delonghi was the only non-commercial machine I could find. It's better than nothing!

I bought this machine a couple years ago and I am pleased with the quality of pasta it produces. However, the plastic parts are now cracking and I can't find a source for replacement parts. The plastic bowl is falling apart and the gray colored extrusion chamber now has a large crack and will fail shortly. The Delonghi web site offers no replacement parts. I was able to find one other web site that sells only the bowl, but no other parts. I guess I will now be searching for a new machine. I will buy one from a company that supports the customers by offering replacement parts (not Delonghi).

The Delonghi PM1000 Pasta Maker Delonghi CUCINA Pasta Maker PM1000 does a terrific job of making pasta. We have already had several terrific pasta meals.

We really like this machine because it:
1) kneads, as well as extrudes, the dough, saving a lot of manual work.
2) makes many different shapes of pasta. For example it can make round spaghetti and also gnocchi.
3) is quite heavy, so it doesn't move around on the counter.

The only trouble that we had was that the first batch of dough was too dry, and the machine jammed. My wife wasn't able to get the machine disassembled, but I was. We haven't had any trouble since then.

The machine states that the dough is ready when it has "walnut" sized balls. However there is no photo. I think that the user's manual would be better with some photos showing dough that is ready and also not ready.

I've had this pasta maker for 9 months and used it regularly over that period. Overall, it does what it is supposed to do. However, there are two major problems. First, two parts broke for seemingly no reason other than poor design and quality. The mixing bowl cracked on my first use and it took at least four months to get a replacement from DeLonghi. Recently the housing for the extruder shattered. I also lost one small part and had to wait months for a replacement part from DeLonghi. Overall it seems like there are too many parts, making it overcomplicated to clean and assemble, and the parts are of poor quality. The second major problem is that, the way dough is extruded through the circular feeding tube, the pasta easily falls together and sticks. You can work hard to keep the individual strands of pasta floured and separated---but isn't this supposed to be a machine that makes thing easier? Since buying this machine, I have also purchased the Kitchenaid stand mixer with the pasta roller and cutter attachments and feel this is just infinitely easier to use and produces much nicer pasta, particularly for flat pasta shapes such as fettuccine and spaghetti. I also ordered the ravioli shape for the DeLonghi and it produced sheets that were simply too small to work with. The Kitchenaid makes nice, wide sheets and you can adjust the dough thickness to meet your needs. Note that the extrusion machines (and also the extrusion attachment for the Kitchenaid) are your only options if you want to make shapes like macaroni.

I am just shopping for a new pasta machine since my Popeil machine's gears, made of plastic, broke. DeLonghi sells this machine for $199 at their own website so I don't know how Amazon says it lists for $420. Amazon tends to have inflated list prices, in my experience. Sounds like the reviewer who said it was a good price compared to other sites was mistaken, or maybe the price has dropped because the machine is not worth more. My KitchenAid pasta attachment extrudes pasta that sticks together unless you dust pounds of flour on it as it comes out. Sounds like that's what the DeLonghi does, according to the one good review here. The metal gears on this one sound like they would solve the problem of plastic gears breaking easily, but not according to another reviewer whose machine broke.

The first time using the product it got jammed and I have not been able to open the machine up due to its malfunction.

I need to exchange it for a new pasta maker, however, I do not have any of information to do it. It was thrown out by mistake.

Could you please send me information on how to exchange the machine for a new one and then I could be better at rating the product.