Cavatelli Maker Machine w Easy to Clean Rollers - Makes Authentic Gnocchi, Pasta Seashells & More - Recipes Included, Homemade Pasta Maker Set is Great for Holiday Italian Cooking or Kitchen Xmas Gift

Purchased for my lady who loves making homemade pasta. Works perfectly, IF, you get your rope thickness at the correct size. Too big can be problematic as dough can get stuck in the wrong places leading to a need to clean it.Great, easy to use and reliable pasta maker.The hard part is having the patience to make a super sauce to accompany these little nuggets.

I had ordered a different, slightly more expensive one that would not anchor to my counter. Plus those roller wheels were wooden and harder ti crank.. This brand does not loosen from the surface and the roller wheels have some type of plastic coating that makes it easy to use. Follow the recipe in the booklet if the proper amount of flour because if not the dough will be too sticky. Plus I used semolina flourwith tge ricotta recipe.

I’d been thinking about picking up a cavatelli maker for a while, but try to avoid uni-taskers. I make pasta relatively often, and wanted to change things up a bit. Just made my second batch. It’s so fun and fast.When it arrived, I was a little concerned about its durability. The instructions are lacking a bit as well. I needed a 10 mm wrench to swap the handle to the correct position. I’m guessing they did that for shipping. I didn’t notice it called out in the paperwork.It’s light weight and easy to clean.So far, so good. Happy cooking!

I waited to write my review until after I had done sev'l batches of cavatelli. I'm here to say I love this little machine. First, it is fast and easy. I already had a pasta rolling machine and bought a motor to make that go faster too, but this machine is even faster and easier than that--hands down. Not only is the machine easy to use, so is the preparation of the dough. Once formed, you roll it out like pie dough and cut strips. You do not want the dough to be paper thin like normal pasta needs to be; it needs to be about 1/4" thick. In a few back and forth motions of the rolling pin, your dough is ready to cut into 3/4" wide strips and be made into cavatelli. Keep the dough on the dryer side rather than wetter and you will have great results. There are 4 recipes included, and I only use the first one w/o eggs b/c my toddler granddaughter is allergic; that way I can keep this machine dedicated to non-egg pasta. The ingredients for that is AP flour, water, a touch of shortening and salt. It works up in minutes. I made up my own recipe too using half AP and half whole wheat flour--all else remained the same. That worked beautifully too. I 'fed' the dough into the roller, and then my 4 1/2 yr old granddaughter cranked it out! She ate it all up both times for dinner! I froze some for myself and have it ready to cook up one day this week. One oddity though--the picture illustrates white plastic rollers, but as another reviewer mentioned, they were not plastic, they were wooden. I didn't allow myself to get all upset b/c I don't know which works better. I kept it as is and am happy with it. I would suggest reading all the other reviews; they helped me a lot b/c they were 'right on.'

This product came delivered partially opened. It also came already assembled with the handle screwed on incorrectly, so I had to unscrew the handle and reattach it. After 3 manual cranks to make the cavatelli (the dough was not too soft and we checked to make sure there was no dough stuck), the handle became completely stuck and broke.I believe I was given a used and faulty item which broke after barely using it. Extremely disappointed.

The media could not be loaded. I purchased this to provide a new type of pasta to dry and use up all of our extra chicken eggs. I used a semolina and eggs pasta with no problems. I found that a flexible dough is key and to roll each strip in flour before putting it through the machine.The handle does not feel very stable at first, but after a bit of trial the bit of wobble does not affect production.Making pasta this way will replace our purchase of shells, rotini and elbow for our family.It is not as tedious as running pasta through a flattening roller and making thin and fat noodles. Less room for error.Only adjustment I would suggest to manufacturering is a large mouth on the clamp so it would fit my table or counters. My meat grinder and pasta roller fit my table.I had to rig a cutting board up to the table with C clamps to get a stable surface to clamp the machine to.Ultimately, I really enjoyed this machine and would purchase it again.

My husband LOVES ricotta cavatelli, and when I saw a Top Chef Master cranking them out last week on Bravo I immediately looked to Amazon and chose the CucinaPro cavatelli maker. I had no idea there was such a thing and was thrilled I could have one at such a reasonable price. It was delivered the next day. Amazon rules.After having read the reviews and knowing that dough consistency was important, as is typically the case with pasta machines, I knew my first batch would be an experiment. The first few were dicey, but after a while I started turning out nice-looking cavatelli. Every other one was perfect. No matter what I did to the dough or the machine, every other cavatelli was perfect. I had to pick through them to get the good ones and the bad ones went back through. The bad ones were either malformed cavatellis or flat blanks. Plus, the thumb screw worked its way loose every so often, even after I tightened it with a wrench.I'm going to send it back. The good cavatellis were quite nice and tasted unbelievable.