PrintPasta Machine Help
Does anybody know how to remove the screw from a DeLonghi Pastamatic? Also do you have any good recipes for making pasta in an electric pasta machine?
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3 Comments:
DeLonghi makes several models... which do you mean? And which screw? There should be a manual..?
We have the Simac Pastamatic PM1400N1, which came with a booklet that includes recipes that work quite nicely, but involve the use of a measuring cup that came with the unit; does yours include something similar? If so I recommend giving that a go.
If there is no booklet/measuring cup: the egg pasta recipe calls for a kilo of flour and about 375cc egg; the semolina pasta calls for a kilo of semolina flour and 300cc water (for smaller models, use 700g or 500g flour, and reduce liquid portion accordingly). Just dump the liquid through the chute onto the flour, and knead 6-7 minutes (5-6 minutes for smaller amounts).
Hope this helps.
mongoose at 6:05PM on 01/01/08
It is PM1000 series. I do have the manual which says to remove the screw in order to remove the extrusion chamber, however it is difficult to get a good enough grip on the screw to loosen it enough to take it out. I called the company and they weren't very helpful. I was thinking that maybe there is something I am missing in order to get the screw out so I can clean the machine. Any suggestions you might have would be appreciated. I do have the recipe booklet, I was just curious if anyone had other recipes that would work with an electric machine.
spooky at 8:57PM on 01/01/08
Apart from the logo on the front, the PM1000 looks identical to the Simac models, so I'm going to take a chance and assume that they are at least very similar; thing is, I cannot find any instruction to remove the screw to remove the extrusion chamber. The only screw that I can see which is associated with the extrusion chamber (which slots into position) is the large one inside the chamber, which feeds the dough forward, and this pulls out easily enough, if you remove the large nut that holds the extrusion dies in places, and the die.
I've looked for other pasta recipes for use with a pasta machine (having minimal faith in something in a manufacturer's booklet) and haven't found anything particularly useful/interesting: there were recipes that differed substantially in their basic flour:liquid ratio, and these yielded a useless dough; there were also recipes that were essentially tweaks on the one we already had, and which we could have--and often had--come up with ourselves (addition of olive paste, sun dried tomatoes, etc.). Your best bet is to tweak whatever solid recipe you are using, to produce what you want (incidentally, cacao pasta--unsweetened--is brilliant with game).
mongoose at 4:46AM on 01/02/08