30 DAYS OPEN PURCHASEAn ordinary pasta machine makes flat things: lasagne sheets, tagliatelle, pappardelle. But nobody can roll out rigatoni, fusilli or bucatini, however many times they turn the crank. They're pressed through a die, and that's exactly what Regina does. The name means queen, which is a fairly reasonable title for a machine that takes you from a lump of dough to a bowl of rigatoni without buying a single packet.
Fill the chamber with dough and crank, and the dough is pressed out through the die you've chosen. When the pasta reaches the right length, cut it off with the included cutter. The machine comes with five dies: maccheroni, maccheroncini, rigatoni, fusilli and bucatini. They're easy to change with the included key.
Extruded pasta needs a firmer, drier dough than rolled pasta, ideally made with durum wheat flour and water, and it takes a couple of attempts to find the right consistency. After that it's quick going. All the parts inside the machine come apart, and the dies are easiest to clean with a soft brush and a toothpick once the dough residue has dried.
Body in food-grade plastic, dies and cutter in chrome-plated steel. Table clamp included. Dimensions 26 x 13 x 19 cm, weight 1.3 kg. Made in Italy.
