Philips Kitchen Home equipment Compact Pasta and Noodle Maker, Viva Assortment, Comes with 3 Default Traditional Pasta Shaping Discs, Absolutely Automated, Recipe Ebook, Small, White (HR2370/05)

Fresh Pasta Made Easy
If you’ve always wanted to make fresh pasta at home but couldn’t be bothered with all the mess and effort, the Philips Compact Pasta and Noodle Maker might just be your new best friend. This fully automatic machine is designed to quickly prepare your favorite pasta and noodles with minimal effort. It comes with three classic shaping discs (Spaghetti, Penne, and Fettuccine), so you can make a variety of delicious pasta dishes in no time.Pros: 1. Fully Automatic: You don’t have to be a pasta pro to make restaurant-quality dishes with this machine. Just add ingredients, press a button, and let the machine do the work. It’s as easy as it gets. 2. Three Shaping Discs: The included shaping discs (Spaghetti, Penne, and Fettuccine) allow for a variety of pasta options, so you can mix things up based on your mood. 3. Compact Design: It’s small enough to fit on most countertops without taking up too much space. Perfect for people with smaller kitchens or those who don’t want to clutter up their space with a big machine. 4. Recipe Book Included: The included recipe book gives you a range of pasta options to try out, so you can get creative with your dishes. 5. Easy to Clean: After making your pasta, the cleaning process is a breeze. The parts are detachable and dishwasher-safe, so no fuss or mess.Cons: 1. Limited Shape Options: While the three discs are great for classic pasta shapes, more adventurous home chefs might find the lack of additional discs limiting. 2. Requires Ingredients in the Right Proportions: While the machine is automatic, it works best when you use the right proportions of ingredients. If you’re unfamiliar with pasta-making, you might need to experiment a bit to get the perfect texture. 3. May not be Best for Those with Special Dietary Needs: While this machine works wonders with traditional ingredients, if you need gluten-free, low-carb, or other specialty pastas, you may need to look for a machine that can handle these ingredients more effectively.In short, the Philips Compact Pasta and Noodle Maker is perfect for anyone who loves fresh pasta but wants to avoid the hassle of making it by hand. With its easy operation, simple clean-up, and versatile shaping discs, you’ll be whipping up delicious dishes in no time. Just be ready to experiment with ingredients to find your perfect pasta!

Like a robot; break even in 2 years
We made all our bread with a bread machine now. Shipping Udons when everybody stays at home for lunch cost us a fortune. Organic spaghetti tastes OK if we fry it. So it seems that this machine will be a good choice if it works.I never believed the videos of making noodles. And it looked like a whole of extra junk to clean up. But this one is from Philips. And if I don’t like it I can return it, most likely leaving it out at my door.I didn’t think about economics before. The worse you can get is saving 23 cents per 200 g of noodles without the egg, for 2 to 3 people. This compares organic flour with organic spaghetti from Whole Foods, doesn’t count electricity, water, and labor So it takes 1.9 years to break even if you make 200 g every day.If you add the organic egg, you are losing 19 cents per 200 g of noodles. But spaghetti doesn’t have eggs.The disassembly and reassembly were easy. Except that the triangle marker on the spaghetti disc was so faint that I thought the manual was talking about something else.The process is so much easier than the bread machine. There is no confusion. Pour 200 g of flour into the chamber out of the way. Close the lid and then turn on the machine. And then pour an 80 ml total of egg plus water into the chamber slowly over the lid. There are only 80 ml of liquid so it can’t take much time. There are only 200 g of flour so the whole process doesn’t take much time either.I can’t believe that the machine did it right the first time. There are no sensors. A simple motor is controlled by a program. But the machine makes spaghetti like a robot. A spaghetti isn’t uniform across the length but the imperfection disappeared after cooking.If not cooking immediately, I would cover the spaghetti so it won’t get dry easily. It will start stiffening up and may break when you move them.I boiled the basic spaghetti recipe for 8 minutes. It tastes like, well, spaghetti.You can put everything except the motor into the dishwasher. All the plastic is of good quality. They can be rinsed clean. There is a brush with a hard scrubber and a silicone soft scrubber to take out the few flours that are left behind. The flat cleaning tool is actually the metal pin in the middle, each end of which is used to clear holes on the discs.It’s not Korean ramen, not authentic udon, but I’ve been there before settling on spaghetti now. I’m very happy with it. Perhaps I’ll think of something that justifies me against ordering spaghetti on our weekly grocery order.

This is the second time we buy this machine. There is a part that is wore out after 6 years and I cannot find the part even on Philip’s website. The machine is easy to use and easy to clean, the past it makes is better than we anywhere we can get.

I just received my pasta maker and immediately opened it and made a batch of penne. Having previously watched a YouTube on using this machine I found it very easy to immediately begin using it with little need to open the manual (but yes definitely read the instructions it you aren’t familiar). I made a 400g recipe and it seemed much shorter than the 18 minutes stated for the machine to finish. The machine mixed for just a few minutes then switched to extruding. The first half inch or so of pasta was a bit shaggy looking, so I cut that off immediately and tossed it but from that point on I was getting very pretty looking penne noodles at a pretty decent rate of speed. The noodles are much firmer than I expected, not delicate at all and it took some force to cut the noodles. They were not sticky either. There was a small but of dough left in the machine at the end but not much. It actually seemed to be very little waste to me. The machine itself is quieter than I expected. Less noisy than my stand mixer. I ended up undercooking the pasta just because I was paranoid it would end up overcooked since it was “fresh” and not dry pasta. So it was a bit chewy but that is my fault. Some of the left over noodles that sat in the pot while we ate supper continued cooking and I tasted them after and they were perfect! So next time I will cook the penne longer than 8 minutes. It is thick enough it can handle a longer cooking time. My kids love pasta and this met with their approval. They both cleaned their plates. Cleanup wasn’t too bad. I used the tool to get the bits of dough out of the shaper disc pretty easily and just wiped off the dried on bits from the rest of the parts. They flaked off with ease. Then I tossed everything in the dishwasher. I am very pleased with the narrow width of this machine. That is what made me end up buying this compact model over the larger model. The difference in capacity is only slightly less but it takes up significantly less counter/storage space. No regrets, this is just the right size. I look forward to trying many more types of pasta.