magimix!

 After discovering all my chopping and shredding equipment woefully unable to chop a few nuts (forget ice) I finally invested in a properly sized and powered hack & slasher. Hello Magimix! I went for the model with a bigger motor - 4200. Oh happy me! It whipped up a ball of pasta dough in a minute or two. We managed to sit down to a homemade pasta meal without exhaustion and/or raging backache for the first time, I think, ever! Well, I have to admit that might also have something to do with the discovery that hand chopping pasta is a breeze, almost done in the time it takes to just unpack the pasta machine and fittings etc. I love the personality that you get in the final result by hand cutting the dough. Just roll out into a sheet as thin as you like, (dry a little or dust with flour before you) roll up loosely and cut into slices as thin as you prefer.  My first pastry turned out best ever too. Big smile!