Shoutout to my cheap pasta maker that actually works

I bought this $25 pasta maker off Amazon last month because I was tired of spending $4 a box on decent spaghetti. First try with it was a disaster, dough was way too sticky and it clogged everything up. But after watching a quick video about letting the dough rest for 30 minutes, it worked perfect. Made enough pasta for 4 meals for what would have cost me like $16 at the store. Anyone else had luck with cheap kitchen gadgets that actually pay off?

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blairstone3mo ago

I mean, the math on that doesn't quite work unless you're factoring in the cost of buying the flour, eggs, and maybe oil separately for each batch. Like, a 5 pound bag of flour is around $3 and a dozen eggs is maybe $2.50, so you can get maybe 4-5 meals worth of pasta out of that for around $5.50 total, which is more like $1.10 per meal instead of the $4 you mentioned. But yeah, that initial $25 investment makes the first few batches feel free once you get the hang of it. I got one of those hand-crank ones for like $30 and it's been solid for making fettuccine, just gotta keep the dough a bit drier than you'd think.

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wren2173mo ago

Yeah okay, I was totally wrong about the math. You convinced me.

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