Knowing the Parts of an Electric Pasta Maker

Video Transcript

"For this step we're going to go over the different parts of your pasta maker. Now everyone is a little bit different but this one is fairly standard so you can assume yours is not going to vary too much. Of course the top we have the feeder and this is where you are going to put the pasta dough into it. If you are lucky, then your pasta maker will have storage inside for putting all the different pieces. Within the pasta maker you can see this is where the dough is going to go and once the feeder light is on. Within that tube, we have a threaded screw so this is going to have to pasta go through it. This of course will go in there and then we also have the handle for turning this screw which goes into the back. One of the less glamorous which is still the important part is a clamp. If your pasta maker has a clamp for you to stick in so that it fits on the counter edge, use it I highly recommend using it. Because this is going to be making your pasta a little bit easier in case you're having problems with the pasta going through the machine. Then last but not least we have the dyes. This pasta maker comes with five different dyes and you can tell what type of pasta is going to make by looking at the holes through which the pasta will be extruded. This for instance is going to make smaller rounded hollow pasta so you can use this for making elbow macaroni. Other ones have a larger ridge pasta. For this you can use for making rigatoni, then smaller ridge ones, yet another larger ridge one and then finally this is not a circle one. You can see instead this is for making a twisty pasta so this is one of the more interesting fun ones to make. But all five of these give you a lot of different varieties to choose from for making your pasta."