Too complicated, too long, too laborious ... It had been a long time since we had given up making our homemade pasta ourselves. Too bad, it's so good.

Home made with less effort with the Pasta Maker

The promise of Philips Pasta Maker is simple: homemade pasta made in a jiffy for healthy and tasty dishes. The machine kneads, preforms and promises to prepare 225g pasta in 10 minutes. A nice performance when there is still no time to cook. Once the starches are ready, all that remains is to cut them out of the machine and immerse them in the boiling water.

Afraid to weary you? No worries. Already because we can make a multitude of varied recipes with pasta. Then because to vary the pleasures, the Pasta Maker makes spaghetti as well as penne , fetuccine or lasagne because it contains four discs of form! And if you want to try new experiences, you just have to start. We replace the wheat flour with chestnut flour, buckwheat, we add herbs, spices ... Adepts of gluten free, you home made pasta! We can even have fun coloring our dishes using carrot or spinach instead of water!

Our life-size test

Ok, on paper it looks great. But in real life, what is the Pasta Maker worth? For a smooth start, we started making fettuccine , a variety of long pasta of Italian origin, similar to tagliatelle. After throwing the flour into the machine and turning it on, we added the liquid mixture (eggs water) perfectly dosed thanks to the dosing tool supplied with the Pasta Maker. And frankly, we were blown away. In ten minutes, the dough was kneaded and the pasta cut. There was only to put them in boiling water a few minutes before savoring. In terms of taste too, the machine keeps its promises. Make pasta just at the time of tasting is still better, even if we are sometimes bluffing by the fresh pasta sold in the trade. In the process, we tested the penne and we feasted.

Assets: A machine that saves time and energy . The Pasta Maker kneads the dough in just 3 minutes! A few more minutes are enough to cut the pasta to the desired shape, before passing them to the pan. And at the time of tasting, we really see the difference! An excellent value for money . Flour, water and possibly eggs is all you need to make a pasta dish that we seasoned according to our tastes.

The downside : If the dosage of ingredients is easy, the smallest option is for "1 to 2 people". A dose much too important for one person. Especially since we do not really want to keep them for the next meal. Pasta is never as good as when cooked right out of the machine.

Pasta maker HR2355 / 09. Delivered with 4 shaped discs, 2 graduated cups, 2 cleaning disks and a scraper knife. € 229.99.