PHILIPS7000 Series Pasta Maker - ProExtrude Technology, Versatile Mixing Ability, 8 Shaping Discs, Perfect Dough, Easy Clean, Up to 8 Portions, White (HR2660/03)

There are very few people in this that have more kitchen equipment than I do. It is an obsession with me. This pasta maker is absolutely the best purchase of cooking equipment I have made in my life. In 10 minutes you basically have restaurant quality pasta using just flour, water, and sometimes egg. The pasta is extruded rather than rolled out & cut. On another note, if you peruse the web looking for how to videos or wanting to acquire specific dies for this machine besides the 8 included, you will quickly realize this model has a huge installed base globally and does not run short of support. No other machine comes close. This is also great for those nights when we wonder what we can have for a quick dinner....Put my premade angel hair that I made a few days ago in boiling water for two minutes , then add to a side skillet with sauce and it is all good. I highly recommend this user friendly machine to all skill levels. The best purchase I have ever made and I use it often

I absolutely love this pasta maker. It is definitely not light-weight, nor chintzy. It is solid, and quite the workhorse of a machine. It was highly recommended by members of the pasta group I'm in on fb, so when it happened to go on sale close to Christmas, I had to try it. I love that it comes with so many popular dies to get you started, and they all fit in a drawer within the compact machine. This machine is not intimidating at all, and makes having fresh pasta so easy! I loved it so much, I bought one of these machines for each of my adult children's families so they can also include the grandbabies in the fun and ease of helping make something so easy and delicious. Thier gifts all included this machine, an Escali glass scale, and a case of six 2.2kg Caputo Simola flour. I get pictures of the grandbabies having so much fun helping make pasta for their family's meals. I cannot recommend this high enough!

Makes lots of fresh pasta. Many dies are available. Mixing works well. Keep the mix dry or you will fight the process. I use about half the water and have had good success. Works with regular, semolina and pasta flours including 00. Fresh pasta cooks quicker than store bought. Even your own dried pasta cooks faster than store bought.

great idea this machine, unfortunately terrible execution. Following the instructions provided, attempted to make pasta 3 times in a row. Yet unable to make an edible pasta. The instructions were unclear for the recipe and the dough was very difficult to get right for this machine to work. Once added to machine, you cannot add flour to get right. And complete disassemble required to clean the machine and start over, taking at least minutes to clean thoroughly. Returned for a refund.

The Philips 7000 Series Pasta Maker excels with ProExtrude Technology, 8 versatile discs, and Perfect Mixing for smooth dough. Effortlessly creates up to 8 portions. HomeID app integration adds smart convenience. Efficient, user-friendly, and a kitchen must-have!

This machine is pretty solid. Lots of metal where it counts, which is nice. It does work well, and based on reviews for other similar machines it sounds like this is the one to get. I do wish it had some more power and used bronze/brass dies, because both those improvements would improve the final product. BUT, when you look at the most affordable options out there with double the power and brass dies, they start at about 3x the price. It would be nice to see those stats in a consumer machine that didn’t have to be imported straight from Italy, but that’s the market right now.I find the included dies to make pasta that’s thicker than I’d prefer. There are companies online that sell brass dies and an adapter, and they work quite well in this machine. More power would create more pressure against the die, which would help create stronger shapes that would hold up better to drying the pasta for long-term storage. But for the time being, my opinion is that this is the best option if you don’t want to buy a light commercial machine from Italy for $1000+.One cool thing about this is the ability to make pastas out of a variety of other flours. I’ve seen recipes for gluten-free pastas, pastas made from chickpea flour, almond flour, low-carb flour alternatives, with added squid ink or vegetable juice or powder, etc. If you really want to experiment and do some interesting things with pasta, and especially if you want hollow shapes like rigatoni and bucatini, this is going to be your best option.

My wife is hoping that the initial infatuation wears off, because I'm making pasta every day since it arrived. 00 flour, semolina flour, rice flour (yeah...oriental rice noodles or wonton shells!), mixtures of all of the above. No skills required at all...dump ingredients into machine, press button, wait for pasta to slide out. Everybody says to dry the pasta for a bit, but I think I prefer it right into the boiling water where it cooks in about 90-120 seconds.. One of the cool parts is that you get to decide for yourself how you like it best; type of flour, how long dried, etc. The best part: machine comes apart and cleans in about 2 minutes by hand, or you can just throw all the parts into the dishwasher . The only thing to remember is to resist the urge to clean the shaping die right away. Getting the sticky dough out of the little holes can be fiddly. Force yourself to wait half an hour or so and all of the dried dough just pops out.On the whole, it's so easy to use and clean that there's no reason not to use it every day if you want to. I start a sauce, while it's simmering I make the pasta, boil it for a couple of minutes, and done. You can actually have fresh pasta in the time it takes cook dried pasta because the machine will make the pasta in the time it takes the water to boil. My only mild disappointment is that It doesn't have a rigatoni die, and I really like big chunky pasta.