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I spent $45 on a pasta maker to make 'artisanal' noodles and got nothing but flour dust on my ceiling
I was at a flea market in Tulsa last month and saw this old hand crank pasta maker for $45. I thought it would be fun to make my own noodles and maybe get some cool flour swirl patterns on the counter that look like abstract art. I brought it home and spent three hours trying to get the dough right, but it just kept sticking and tearing. By the end, my kitchen looked like a snow globe exploded, and I had zero edible pasta. The only thing that came out of it was a weird white splatter on my ceiling that my roommate says looks like a ghost. I'm out $45 and a Saturday. Has anyone actually made this work without losing their mind?
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skylergrant7d ago
My grandma had one of those old hand crank ones and she always said the trick is letting the dough rest for like 30 min before you even touch the machine. If its sticky you gotta add flour little by little, not all at once, and run it through the widest setting a few times first before going thinner. I read somewhere that humidity messes with it too so maybe your kitchen was just too warm that day. The ceiling flour thing is honestly just part of the deal though, my aunt still finds it in her light fixtures.
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