KitchenAid Pasta Drying Rack
From Kitchen Aid
Pasta making just got easier with this KitchenAid pasta drying rack. It holds more than 4 pounds of fresh pasta and has 10 feet of drying space. The rack frees counter space and helps promote fast, even drying. Made of 16 sturdy, clear polycarbonate rods. Also includes a multi-purpose "wand" that helps transfer pasta from the pot to the drying rack and helps cut the pasta. Stores in a chrome plated steel column when not in use. Unit folds flat for easy storage. 1 1/2 lbs. 19"H x 17"W x 17"D.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2668 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Brand: KitchenAid
Great product
This pasta dryer is great! It's compact and durable. I kept it's original box to store it in. I dried a whole lot of pasta in a small space. Great companion to the KitchenAid pasta maker.
Great Pasta Drying Rack!
My wife and I received this pasta drying rack as a wedding gift along with various other KitchenAid products. If we hadn't have received it as a gift, I would have bought it and considered it $40 well spent.
The pasta rack is well designed and easy to deploy and pack up for storage. When you open it from the package all of the hanging rods are aligned with each other. Turn the black wheel at the top of the drying rack about one full turn and all of the hanging rods space themselves out evenly (see product picture). No need to position each hanging rod by hand, which would be a very tedious chore. Pull each of the feet down and then lift up on the ends to lock them in place.
Craftily designed to be stored in the top of the drying rack is a "transfer rod" which conforms to the hanging rods to allow you to transfer the pasta to each hanging rod. What we do is cut the pasta through our KitchenAid pasta plate running off the stand mixer and just before the pasta is nearly finished being cut, slide the transfer rod from one side of the pasta as it's hanging from the cutter plate to the other and then the pasta is now hanging from the rod. We then place the transfer rod on top of one of the hanging rods, twist the transfer rod 180 degrees and now the pasta is hanging from the drying rack.
The pasta rack easily held the amount of pasta produced by using the recipe in the KitchenAid pasta plate owners manual, which is suppose to yield 1-1/2 pounds of dough. Maybe a bit more room for pasta, but definitely not enough room for a full second batch.
The pasta rack is very stable and is made of stainless steel tube for the center column and legs. The bottom base is made of plastic along with the hanging rods, transfer rod, and turning wheel at the top. All the surfaces are very smooth and easy to clean with just a damp rag.
The pasta drying rack is made in Italy.
Does everything promised
This product is a convenient tool for drying pasta. I assembled it in minutes, hung plenty of pasta on it, the rack was reasonably stable, and hand washing the arms was not that difficult since they consist of a smooth plastic. I looked at several alternatives before buying this one and didn't see anything else that came close in terms of hanging volume, convenience, and materials.
