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I’ve been on a kick that has me ordering As Seen On TV stuff I wanted when I was a kid. I bought an unopened (((Ron Popeil))) automatic pasta maker. I have no pasta making experience.

It seems the basic recipe is water, egg, oil, and flour. I see that “00” flour is preferred over all-purpose. I watched the instructional video and infomercial, both gave some ideas.

Spinach is something I’m going to experiment with. But surely you folks have some knowledge and experience. Let me know.

I’ve been on a kick that has me ordering As Seen On TV stuff I wanted when I was a kid. I bought an unopened (((Ron Popeil))) automatic pasta maker. I have no pasta making experience. It seems the basic recipe is water, egg, oil, and flour. I see that “00” flour is preferred over all-purpose. I watched the instructional video and infomercial, both gave some ideas. Spinach is something I’m going to experiment with. But surely you folks have some knowledge and experience. Let me know.
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Out of curiosity I watched a review from 5 years ago where the pasta turned out great. There's a part of the extruder that had to be heated up in hot water before being screwed on. You did that as well I suppose?

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I was on the fence about it. It didn’t need to be heated up to fit. So there’s debate I’ve seen that the hot disc would mess up the pasta coming out by heating it up a bit. Some said it’s to help the pasta go through the disc and they recommended just putting a little oil in there (lady host in infomercial even says that but Ron says something like “we are already using oil). I went the oil route. But I’ll say, the issue with it not extruding was the dough was super stuck in the back and not moving forward. Adding more flour helped. I also learned the machine was designed to be tipped forward off need be. That would probably help too.

I’m optimistic it’ll turn out better after more trial and error.

I also forgot how cheap it is to make things with flour. I used to have an all-in-one bread maker/baker but the belt inside broke. I broke it even more trying to get it open to fix it.