Kitchen Pasta Maker Featured Video: How Pasta Is Made

Ever wonder how that commercial pasta is produced?  This pasta making video from the Discovery Channel tells you. It's an interesting piece for the kitchen pasta maker, and includes some little-known pasta history.  The results certainly are not as good as what your kitchen pasta maker will give you, but it's a bit of fun nonetheless!

Kitchen Pasta Maker Featured Video: Kneading Pasta Dough

Kneading pasta dough is an important step in the process of making homemade pasta.  It develops the dough and is integral in achieving the right consistency for the homemade pasta dough to work in your kitchen pasta maker.  And so, today's kitchen pasta maker featured video is a quick but useful video to help you learn how to manage this important step.

Kitchen Pasta Maker Video Feature: Kitchenaid Pasta Dough Recipe

I chose this video for our featured kitchen pasta maker video this week because it teaches you how to make dough with your Kitchenaid or stand mixer.  Note, it does show you how to use a KitchenAid mixer pasta maker attachment, but the first part is instruction for making the dough with the stand mixer - without the hand kneading and mess. 

I do own a KitchenAid, which I love and use to the level of abuse (but of course it takes it :) ), but I have not yet invested in a KitchenAid mixer pasta maker attachment.  I bought instead this hand-crank kitchen pasta maker for the affordability of it, but one day I certainly may invest in the KitchenAid pasta maker.  For now, my plan is to use the CucinaPro pasta maker that I did purchase but to mix the dough with my Kitchenaid - something like this: