I don't make my own, but love to have them every chance I get. When I go to the Amish dinners, they usually have them. And I was really surprised when I found out the head cook at the Home made her own for our Thanksgiving dinner with my sister. I tried hard not to make a pig of myself.

Shirley

First DH was Italian, his grandfather gave me an ANGELA pasta machine. I think he had it sent over.
The "machine" is powered by a crank.
The roller attachment lets me determine the thickness.
And the cutters have two widths, for spaghetti and lngiune

That was 48 years ago, and I still use it....and my granddaughter loves to roll out the dough and cut it.

Once you eat "home mades"...you can't go back to the box stuff in the supermarket.

Never tried, probably won't. Happy to spend a buck at the store.

My mom & grandma did, sadly, I didn't inherit the desire or energy for it.

I never thought of pasta for a gift, but it is an AWESOME giftie for your friends....which I was one of them! ;)

Not me - but DH always makes his own whenever we make chicken soup. He uses an Atlas pasta machine which sounds like the one Monica has. He has been using it for over 35 years.

We also have a KitchenAid stand mixer and we do utilize the meat grinder and sausage stuffer attachments.

He also makes his own Spaetzle by hand.

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never have.

It was never a tradition in my family, so it wasn't a habit I picked up.

My favorite nearby family-style Italian restaurant has a variety of pasta dishes which can be had with one's choice of pasta. They tout their fresh in-house made linguini and to tell you the truth, I really can't taste a difference. If the sauce is tasty enough, the pasta really serves as carrier to take the sauce to the mouth without adding much flavor.

We mostly have whole wheat or quinoa-based pasta at home since it's a more healthy choice. I concentrate on making a good tasting sauce, I don't think of pasta as making much of a contribution to the final product. If there were a convenient way to eat the sauce without the pasta or bread (other than over meat or eggplant), I'd do that.

When I am really stressed I make the pasta dough by hand....the mound of flour and eggs in the middle kind. And I roll it out by hand.
When I just want homemade noodles I use the food processor and the hand cranked Atlas one.

once in hs home ec class..lol...

I have never made spaghetti. Do you use eggs in those or just flour and water? My husband does not like spaghetti but does like chicken and noodles or beef and noodles. That is what my noodles will be used for. The hand cranked machines hurt my shoulders too much to use any more. I actually have two of them. My KitchenAid attachment is made in Italy.

Sue

I made some last month. Gee-a Kitchen Aid pasta attachment would be nice-but they are so Pricey!! Hoping to find one at an estate sale. I'll google the Atlas ones too.

I received a pasta making machine years ago. You would add the carefully measured ingredients, it would mix and blend the dough, I think it would also extrude the pasta through a form to make long noodles of various shapes.

I used it once and wasn't very impressed with the results, especially given the time and effort involved. I subsequently bought some expensive semolina flour and tried the machine again a couple of weeks later, and still my results were unimpressive. So I gave the machine away and never have had the desire to try making pasta again.

I do--they're a favorite of my family, and traditional for homecomings and church suppers in our area. Most of the older ladies rolled their dough up and cut it with a knife, into long noodles. I used to roll mine out, then cut with a rotary pizza cutter, before I acquired one of the crank pasta roller/cutters. The crank roller once belonged to one of my neighbors who has passed away--if not for her I'd still be using my pizza cutter. Monica-pa, my grandson loves helping, too.

I don't always make my own but it is a fun project and boy can we tell the difference...We love homemade pasta and I particularly love homemade lasagne strips...we have a hand crank and the kitchen aid attachment...

Like Juellie, I didn't inherit the desire or energy for making noodles.

However, I enjoyed watching Mother make hers and she had such little working room and no equipment either. They were so good.

I do! I love making fettuccini and lasagna noodles and I make ravioli too. I also make egg noodles for soup, and get this... I sometimes use my cake decorating cutters to cut out fancy font egg noodles for my soup! Sometimes I put a dirty word in my soup. I crack me up lol.

I finally learned to make Moms...using her bowl and measuring cup and rolling them out and letting them dry...love good ole beef and noodles!!