You'll need a soft brush and a wooden skewer or toothpick to work every last bit of flour and dough out of every last corner of every last piece. He's been writing about food and drinks for nearly 20 years, for publications including Playboy, Serious Eats, and Travel Channel, and on topics ranging from his favorite flavor molecule to the house cocktail at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. With Atlas 180 cutting rollers you can make 3 pasta shapes, lasagna, fettuccine (6 mm), tagliolini (1. The housing on the Pasta Drive is made from plastic which gets marred from the polymer clay on your hands. With Atlas 150 you can easily make lasagna, fettuccine, tagliolini and 12 other pasta shapes thanks to the wide range of accessories.

Rolling even, flat sheets of dough is essentially effortless, thanks to a crank that sits firmly in place. The pasta machine, built and patented with anodised aluminium alloy rollers which do not release any harmful metals onto the dough, makes 100% fresh and wholesome pasta. The local operation quickly expanded and by 1938 the first Marcato factory was producing for high demand. When it comes to cost, the Marcato Atlas 150 is ever so slightly more expensive than many comparable models, but its performance is head and shoulders above.The bayonet fitting guarantees quick and simplified coupling of the motor and allows the machine to be used on any flat surface without being clamped down. For this reason, we use cookies and third-party services to improve the services we offer, display relevant advertisments and receive usage statistics.

With the Pastadrive motor there is no need to clamp the pasta machine to the worktop and therefore can be used on any flat surface. The pasta maker is designed for making lasagna, fettuccine or tagliolini – with the 10-position adjustment knob you can determine the thickness of the pasta yourself. More than a dozen Marcato accessories are available to expand your pasta-making repertoire, with a choice of additional cutting rollers and even a powered motor that just ‘plugs in’ to do the winding for you in place of the crank handle.When working with polymer clay, one of the most important tools to help you with conditioning, mixing, and sheeting polymer clay is the trusty pasta machine.

Additionally, the machine has a wide roller that is perfect for making lasagna sheets or for rolling out dough for other types of pasta. All our products, whether food, wine or accessories, are carefully chosen for their quality and value. Today, the high, proven quality of the Atlas pasta maker sees 2500 machines made and sold every day.

These machines function beautifully and have very little trouble with rippling or chattering polymer clay sheets, even at thinner settings. An extruder is the only way to make tubes and spirals like penne and fusili—no tabletop cutter, Atlas 150 or otherwise, can do that—but it's also quite a bit more expensive. Where the Marcato Atlas 150 distinguishes itself from the competition is just how precisely and consistently all those different parts work. When it comes to slicing pasta sheets into individual noodles, the Atlas 150 comes with a two-in-one cutter.

It also comes with a detailed instruction manual that includes recipes for different types of pasta, as well as tips for making the perfect pasta dough.Overall, the Marcato Atlas 150 Classic Pasta Machine is a top-quality pasta maker that is perfect for anyone who loves homemade pasta. Alternatively, with the help of separately available attachments or molds, you can form other types such as ravioli.