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I broke another pasta machine

ahhh ... I had two accidents. You probably saw the first accident,

in a video awhile ago

might be understandable as my machine was super cheap

but for the second one, I used like

some pretty legit,

Italian brand, and although I did nothing

particular to it,

it did FAIL on me again! so long story short,

I'm basically FED UP with this situation!

I have something else in mind, it requires a bit of er...

confidence ... and also doing

some shopping

online.

I want a pasta machine

so I'm going on the website

AliExpress. It's not a paid sponsorship by the way!

It allows me to get in touch directly

with suppliers and factories from all over the world er....

mainly ... China...

ok ... this one is exactly the one I had earlier minus

the price of course, which is only 10 dollars on this website.

I think it's the right value for it, but there is no

point in me buying this again. and its SOMETHING BOLD!!!

so now... oooo

ooooohhhhh.....

30, 40 kilos per hour

nahhhh ... this is too expensive!

I'm looking for something cheaper, and easier to fix

if its broken during delivery, which I'm sure happens

quite alot. yeah, this is good, yeah man this is

good! ahhhhhh....

I think we have a DEAL! BUY NOW.

so that whole thing, is a pretty accurate re-enactment of what I did

exactly three weeks ago. And to be honest, I was

very much worried that my package would

never show up! Boy was I wrong!

what's in this package can solve

my problem. This is supposed to get me from amateur side

Who wants to be an amateur? All the way to the

Pro side!

I wanna be a Pro! Here it is! oh!

I don't like the sound of this...

ahhhh hahahha

oops! **** me! look at this! completely damaged!

Er.... I know it might sound a bit unusual but before

we actually start the proper product review,

I need to fix a few things first.

otherwise, nothing's gonna work.

ahhhh.... now we can start

the product review.

so the machine comes with the nice... er you know,

premium manual, when you can read this

and those machines are good helper of modern families.

would it help possibly?

is it modern?

I don't know, you tell me :)

Let me state this clear!

The main reason why I got this machine in the first place, is because of

this. You see the small gear, meshing up with the

big gear? this is called a,

gear reduction, 12 teeth and the big gear

has 48. I know what you're thinking!

You don't care that much! WRONG!

The speed of the big gear is 4 times

slower than the speed of the small gear. But the torque is gonna be

4 times stronger! and that's ...

what's super important for me especially when I work

with low hydration dough... which are

Super stiff! and that naturally leads us to the next

mechanism that I want to review

the flattening system. How to adjust the

thickness of your dough? there are 2 knobs in the

front when you unscrew them

the space between the 2 rods gets wider

I think this is a great feature, because I can do 1,2,

3,4 milimeters, but I can also do

1.5, 2.5. See! This is analogue!

and now to the noodle knife.

The machine came along with 2 knives attachment.

This one is made to cut 4 milimeters pasta

and this one is made to cut

2 milimeters

pasta. you just have to slide them in

and then you er, bear with me... secure them

in place with this little tab

then as you spin the bigger rods, the smaller ones

are doing their duty.

without further a due, lets just give

this machine a proper

test. so I suggest we start with

something simple, an Italian pasta dough

so the recipe is very straight forward, its a 100gram

of flour

and 1 egg

Fold, press, fold, press, fold, press

fold, press, fold, press, fold, press. Well that was before, 'cause now we can also

use our heavy-duty pasta maker to do

the kneading process. ok guys I'm sure

that everything's gonna be fine, but I still need your positive vibes on this

'cause its the very first time

that I'm gonna use this machine

I'm not worried, I'm not worried!? The first spin....

Nice!

you wanna fold it on itself. Here we go again!

so honestly, getting that dough super smooth was like

a breeze! right... Let's flatten it out.

ok its probably useless now

but er... it was just to prove my point

that dough is crazy thin!

Like I can almost see through it. I can definitely

see through it! ok, let's move on to the second dough.

it's gonna be way more challenging for this bad boy! so it's gonna be

a 40% hydration dough. Here I've

got 400grams of flour, meaning that I need

160 grams of water.

oh I can already tell this is gonna put some

stress on those rods! Do not be

intimidated by this dough. It's very stiff!

at first you think its not gonna come together but

it DEFINITELY WILL!

Right, so the dough is far from being ready.

you see, so crumbly, it's not smooth

ok right, let's open those rods to their maximum,

and pray!

oh so for the record, I'm not putting that many

effort into this. Almost nothing I should say.

Right, time to give the noodle knife a test!

ooh la la, come on, look at those beauties!

More!

Hahahaaaaaaahahaha!

Ok! Enough of the joyful excitement for now!

let's just dive into practical

disappointment!

I'm French after all, I need to complain about something!

First of all, there is no way to feed

the dough properly into the machine! a part from this

dough feeder.

now a quick word about the locking mechanism, I think we can all

agree that it's...

at best... Pathetic!

There is also a problem with the main wheel which is you know... jiggling around. It's not

that stable! Especially if we want to

just you know... CRANK THE SPEED A LITTLE BIT!

cause I don't know if you noticed? But there is a groove in this

spinning wheel which basically means that we can

erm... strap it up to a belt and to a

tootootootootootootoootoo

toootooototototoototototooo

of course I can't wait to get my hands dirty

and make you know a... chinese

pasta maker machine 2.0

er... But I think that will have to wait until part 2

Well I know what you're thinking! you're thinking

"that boy just bought a big ass pasta machine to make even more ramen!"

and... and about this, you couldn't be possibly more right!

The thing is ... you just don't see the

value in ... a reliable pasta maker!

you can flatten doughs ... but you can make Italian pasta... you can make

Dumplings! You can even make French Stuff!

But with a you know ... small twist like making

puff pastry with this, is a breeeze! Ahhhhhhh.....

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