Ronco Automatic Pasta Maker
From Ronco Inventions
The best selling Pasta and Sausage Maker in the world, and the most efficient! Make Homemade Pasta: The Healthy and Economical Choice. Once you taste fresh pasta, you won't be satisfied with the dried or canned variety. Create healthful, economical and delicious meals in minutes with the Popeil Automatic 5-Minute Pasta and Sausage Maker. Easy to use by just viewing the instructional videocassette (included). Just select the pasta shape (die) you want, then add water or juice to any type of flour (all-purpose, whole wheat, flour for bread-making, semolina, etc.) you measure into your machine and it automatically mixes, kneads and extrudes fresh pasta. Built-in Dryer 1 Italian Sausage Horn 12 Feet of Italian Size Casings 1 Italian Spice Seasoning Dishwasher safe and easy to clean non-stick parts Lightweight with powerful motor Makes standard and gourmet pastas!
Amazon Sales Rank: #243105 in Kitchen & Housewares Brand: Ronco Inventions Model: 323128 Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 13.60" h x 13.60" w x 13.80" l, 16.00 pounds
Create healthful, economical, and delicious meals in minutes with the Popeil Automatic 5-minute Pasta Maker. Easy to use by just viewing the instructional videocassette (included). Just select the pasta shape (die) you want, then add water or juice to any type of flour (all-purpose, whole wheat, flour for bread-making, semolina, etc.) you measure into your machine, and it automatically mixes, kneads, and extrudes fresh pasta. The healthy and economical choice--once you taste fresh pasta, you won't be satisfied with the dried or canned variety! Features: Recipe and instruction booklet Instructional video kit 12 pasta shaping dies Pasta measuring cup Automatic pasta cutter Built-in dryer One Italian sausage horn 12 feet of Italian-size casings One Italian spice seasoning Dishwasher-safe and easy-to-clean, non-stick parts All FDA approved materials for food contact Lightweight with powerful motor Makes standard and gourmet pastas!
Great product, iffy customer service The face plate on my machine disintegrated within 4 months and I have been having a horrible time getting it replaced. I sat on hold for over 2 hours with their customer service in Chatsworth, CA. I never did get through, they closed before they answered my call! That was my 3rd call trying to get it replaced. I love my machine, hate the customer service! Poor quality for too much money Yep, I bought one of these years ago. After seeing the infomercial upteem times I fell for how easy it was to make.Well, folks, it ain't that easy and to date I have never used the item again. It sits, unused, on the shelf. The parts fit poorly and the recipe is off. When I called to complain about this all they did was try to sell me another recipe book! I finally got so frustrated with the Popiel folks not listening to my complaint on the manufacture of the pasta maker and the inaccuracy of the recipie (which by the way they pointed out and their fix was for me to buy the NEW recipe book) that I finally gave up since they seemed to be flummoxed by what to do about my complaint. All I heard was them talking to each other in the background puzzled.Would I suggest this item to anyone? NOPE! Save your money. You can make your own noodles and pasta far better by hand or with one of those stainless steel pasta makers the old Italian ladies used for decades that didn't need to be plugged in, didn't have "parts" that didn't fit properly, etc. I have priced those out at less than $40 each and no shipping charge folks since they can be bought locally.If there was a lesser rating than one I would have given it to Ron on this one.I will admit he is a good showman. Oh, that free bagel cutter? It arrived cracked and the knife was the only good item out of the whole deal.I do own his slicer that I got when I purchased the food dehydrator. That thing is useless also. Save your money, folks and go to Sears or BJ's and buy close to home so if the item is a bust you can actually see the person and demand your money back in person instead of being kept on the phone while they try to sell you even more of the stuff for an item you can't use. What a terrible product I don't want to give it even a 1-star rating. It doesn't deserve any rating, except maybe an F minus! This thing is SOOOOOOO poorly engineered, I'm amazed Ron Popeil shows his face on the street, much less on television. It mixed the dough well enough, but would NOT extrude unless I forced teaspoon-sized wads of dough into the extruder screw. Do you know how long that took to extrude 2 cups of dough? 45 minutes! I had to open the lid and squash the dough in constantly. But wait, there's more! - the mixing paddle turns in the opposite direction of the extruder screw, knocking my pitiful dough wads off the extruder screw. Plus, dough gets caught all over the outside of the turning mechanism and under the outlet, so you lose a lot of it, because the bowl is too small to get your hand in to scrape it out. What a mess! It's like knitting socks in slow motion. So SLOW, so NOISY. I made lasagne noodles with the mold, and they were about 3/4 of the width they should be. It took 45 minutes to extrude what I could've rolled out on a table and cut in less than 5 minutes, and gotten the correct size. Ron Popeil, you owe me an apology! Or, at least an aspirin, because your noisy, slow machine gave me a headache on top of all the frustration.
