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Step 6Roll by Machine
Take the ball of dough and flatten it a little bit. Make sure the rollers are set on the widest setting. Start turning the rolling crank on your pasta rolling machine. Push the flattened dough into the roller and the rollers should catch the dough and pull it through.
Fold the dough in half and run it through the machine again. Repeat this 5 or 6 times, it will make the dough much more consistent.
Cut your sheet of dough in half. If you try to work with the whole sheet it quickly gets unwieldy. Don't be afraid of cutting the sheets in half if they get unwieldy.
If the sheet of dough starts to get sticky sprinkle a little bit of flour on both sides and spread it out with your hand. Don't put much flour because it will dry out the thin sheet of pasta.
Move your rollers one setting closer together, and run the dough through the rollers twice. Repeat this until your dough is as thin as you want it to be. Remember that the pasta will expand 25-50% when you cook it.
Fold the dough in half and run it through the machine again. Repeat this 5 or 6 times, it will make the dough much more consistent.
Cut your sheet of dough in half. If you try to work with the whole sheet it quickly gets unwieldy. Don't be afraid of cutting the sheets in half if they get unwieldy.
If the sheet of dough starts to get sticky sprinkle a little bit of flour on both sides and spread it out with your hand. Don't put much flour because it will dry out the thin sheet of pasta.
Move your rollers one setting closer together, and run the dough through the rollers twice. Repeat this until your dough is as thin as you want it to be. Remember that the pasta will expand 25-50% when you cook it.
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Oct 18, 2008. 6:16 AMschneidp20
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Any tips on getting a good, but simple pasta machine? What brand do you have and do you like it? Thanks for the instructable!
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Oct 18, 2008. 8:38 AMgregr (author)
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I've got an Imperia. Its built to last a long time, and works great. I have no complaints except that on the very ends of the cutting rollers sometimes little bits of pasta dough get stuck in the machine. To get the pasta out I usually just let the machine sit out for 24 hours and then turn the cutting rollers and the now dry pasta falls out. In the manual they say that you need to run pasta dough through the machine to clean it out. When you get a machine take some time and run dough through all of the rollers at all of the settings and make sure to get the extreme ends. A fair amount of oil and little metal flakes come out.
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Nov 2, 2008. 6:08 AMschneidp20
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Inspired by you (thanks!) I splurged and got the Imperia. What usually happens to me if I buy cheap is I end up eventually throwing out the knock-off and getting the real machoy anyway. :-) One comment on your instructions after running only one batch of dough through. I had pretty firm dough (not sticky at all), but it bunched up in the spagetti cutters. Lightly dusted with flour before running it through the cutters worked wonders! Thanks again! Dave
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