Marcato Pasta Machine, Pasta Maker, Pasta Roller for Handmade Fresh Pasta, Made in Italy, Chromed Steel, for Lasagna, Fettuccine, Tagliolini, Compatible with 12 Extra Pasta Shapes. Model: Atlas 150

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verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Where the Marcato Atlas 150 distinguishes itself from the competition is just how precisely and consistently all those different parts work. First off is the clamp that holds everything to your table or countertop; it didn't wobble or shake in the least through our whole series of tests in the Lab. This helps get even-textured and evenly cut pasta, and it just makes the whole process easier in general. OxGord Pasta Maker Machine: This hand-crank pasta maker is similar in style and functionality to the Atlas 150 but costs roughly half as much. To save money, you're sacrificing quality: It's just not as smooth and stable in operation, and its cutters don't work quite as well. It's still a solid pasta maker, and an excellent deal. It might be a better choice for a beginner who's not sure how often they'll be making fresh pasta. When it comes to slicing pasta sheets into individual noodles, the Atlas 150 comes with a two-in-one cutter. You can make wide fettuccine or narrow tagliolini by feeding the dough sheet through one slot or the other. Cutting is as smooth as rolling with this machine, and it sliced fettuccine beautifully. Its tagliolini also came out mostly separate, though there were a few strands we had to pull apart by hand. (Most pasta machines come with a cutter for spaghetti rather than tagliolini. The two noodles are the same size, but tagliolini are flat and spaghetti are round. If you absolutely must have spaghetti, you can buy a separate spaghetti attachment.) There are many different brands of pasta machine on the market, and nearly all of them work the same basic way: A pair of adjustable rollers compresses dough into thinner and thinner sheets, and then a rotary cutter slices the sheets into noodles. You use a removable hand crank to turn both rollers and cutter, and you can swap out different cutting units to get pasta of different shapes and sizes.