Come on, we all click on tech reviews in the secret hopes that if it isn't marvellous, it will fail spectacularly. A gadget that simply works and delivers what it promises is not generating much excitement.
It's because of the scope of many of these devices. The more it promises the more surprising it is if it works. Sure this just works, but think of what it promises and does. Fresh Pasta hands free in minutes. It's not like a pan or a chipper or a hand crank pasta roller. It has a very big scope
@@artvandelayimports yeah I was just about to comment that as well, though it was from Japan but oh well. I belive it's maruchan or cup noodles that does that exact thing. Can't remember which though.
*UPDATES* (expand this box to read all 3) 1) *You'll find a link to the Philips recipe book (& more) in the Video Description Text Box* 2) According to the Philips Website this should also now be available in the U.K. (when I bought mine in 11/2017 it wasn’t). However I can’t find anywhere with stock. 3) - The toy I mentioned wasn’t from Playmobil - it was the Playdoh mop top hair shop
This might make a good video for next week ;) www.ebay.com/itm/KENNER-PLAY-DOH-VTG-1992-TONKA-SUPERFEAST-MAKE-A-MEAL-SET-EUROPEAN-NEW-MISP-VHTF/281204185142?_trkparms=aid%3D777003%26algo%3DDISCL.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D49893%26meid%3D19807fd6251b44f9bdf4ecd7ac8bda5f%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D331079189125%26itm%3D281204185142&_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985
I found that thinnish microfiber towels do a VERY good drying those weird spaces. Only downside is microfiber towels really can't be washed with other fabrics, although with all the screens you have with your collections that might not be a problem.
I made tagliatelle once, by hand, ie I mixed the egg and flour in a bowl with a wooden spoon, rolled it out with a rolling pin, and cut it into strips with a knife. Unfortunately I undercooked the pasta as I was too afraid of overcooking it, since everyone I had told I was going to make it told me to be careful not to overcook it, as it takes much shorter than dry pasta, and the recipe assumed the pasta would be thinner (as made by a machine, rather than the thicker hand cut) and I couldn't keep on cooking it further as I finished cooking it by tossing it in the sauce. Anyways the pasta was undercooked and had such a bite to it as if I was eating meat, so texture wise it was horrible, non the less, flavour wise it was the best tasting pasta I've ever had in my life
@@Brokenrocktail indeed, he lost his sense of taste long ago. Can't remember off the top of my head how it happened, but he seems to cope with it pretty well I'd say.
Techmoan: "I don't suppose there are really that many kitchen gadgets." American Late Night Infomercials: "Hold my beer... IN THIS NEW DELUX BEER HOLDER! ONLY $5.99!!! ORDER WITHIN THE NEXT TEN MINUTES AND WE'LL THROW IN A CLOTH BAG THAT'LL MICROWAVE A BAKED POTATO PERFECTLY!!!"
Holy Baader-Meinhof Effect, I just learned about the existence of those microwave potato cloth bags yesterday and now I keep seeing references to them everywhere.
@Matrix29bear I was going to say, I've got a cupboard in my kitchen stuffed to the brim with gadgets. Bean grinder, spiraliser, milk frother, hand blender (with 8 attachments), food processor, air fryer, bread maker, juicer, smoothie maker, soup maker, salad spinner, sandwich maker, low fat grill sponsored by a boxer, electric carving knife, electric orange squeezer (also does other citrus fruit), apple press, mandolin (the thing that slices veggies thin, not the musical instrument), vegetable steamer tower and some other weird beige thing that I can't quite work out what it does, probably because half the bits are missing. And that's not counting the toaster, kettle and microwave that take up counter top space.
Thank you for your excellent video. I got my machine today and was successful in making spaghetti, thanks to your instructions. I made it with semolina flour, 2 eggs, and all-purpose flour. I'm in the United States.
Dear Techmoan, thank you for your video. Fresh pasta is very different from dry pasta, you have to cook shortly fresh pasta until it floats on the surface of (salted) water, normally it requires 3 minutes. I think that in 5 minutes you obtain am overcooked pasta. Nice machine! :) Hello from Italy! :)
I don't speak Italian, but I've studied Spanish and Latin, so I can usually figure it out. "Important Note: the provided water cup has two sides. Side A for pasta with eggs (normal flour mixed with eggs). Side B for all other types of pasta. Consult the user's manual for further details."
lol I'm a native Spanish speaking and I tried to read that note, I only understood like half, (alluovo, mischiata con l'uovo, per tutti flu altri tipi di) those where the word I had no idea what they meant until I read it translation, then they clicked
I've owned a pasta maker not unlike this one in the past. What I found was what you've found. It's really cheaper to buy dry pasta than making it with this rather costly machine. It's really overkill if you're just going to make standard pasta. The benefit to a pasta maker is that you can make it with whatever flour you like rather than being limited by what the store carries. The only real downside is that you have to eat all of the pasta you make or you need to put it in the fridge. It's not like dried pasta that keeps in a container for a long time. You could dry it in a dehydrator and make your own dried pasta, but that's an extra step and it requires a dehydrator. And then there's the machine cleanup. Overall, it is fun to make, but the fun soon wears off when there aren't enough shapes and having to clean it up every time you use it. On top of that, it's a pretty chunky machine that you need to store someplace.
There is a youtube channel called Falcon Kitchenware selling what appears to be a knockoff machine. It's unfortunately not in English but you could use the CC/translate function. That channel is full of ideas and recipes for how to use the machine to make all sorts of cookies.
I've got the bigger version and absolutely loved it for making ramen, I added chili and other favours to the mix so you can taste every strand with that. A tip with cleaning the disc with small holes, just put it in the freezer a lot easier to poke it through when the dough is hardened.
Alek, for water to flour ratio I'm pretty much stick to the recommended measurement but I play around with the ingredients a fair bit sometimes I added rice flour/potato flour for a more chewy texture + herbs and spices . You'll get a hang of it after a little while, it only takes 3 Mins to make so hardly wasting any time to experiment and the cleaning process is a breeze.There are a lot of diff discs for various shapes even dumpling wrappers or the very fine angel hair noodle. Obviously it won't be as good as the properly made stuff but it's damn fun to play with and try out diff recipes. Making Udon noodle will be perfect with this :)
Alex the french guy has a great ramen recipe, and he has some videos on drying and storing it also. recipe here ruclips.net/video/fnrW4oan_Mo/видео.html
I love the way you review these kitchen items. It really shows the other side of you. When you review tech gadgets you act a bit like a professional and don’t talk about the average consumer very much. When you review these kitchen gadgets. You seem to give a different perspective. The consumers perspective. You don’t talk about how fast the motor spins or how watts it takes. You just focus on the sound it makes and it’s reliability.
What I love about you my man, is that you really try(and succeed) to get the interesting things even if its a bit harder than just walking to the local store.. Quality content with a big Q!
Even Techmoan's pasta maker has a B-side! Also, it seems like some of the holes for the spaghetti seemed to clog. And ouch at that price tag! Looks like it's around $150 in the US. Can't wait to see the nude explosion lip-sync make-up fail, though.
I'm waiting for Aldi to release a knock off version for £30 or so. They made a nutri bullet blender for £20, an electric spiralizer for £25 etc, so they must do this soon.
Tie for best April fools along with Swedish TV's "put a socking over your tv set and get colour tv" from the sixties. Lots of innocent stockings "pined for the fjords" that day
Kitchen gadgets, watches, oldschool tech, I enjoy your take on things. That said I am someone who enjoys pasta. to the point i have my own pasta roller and dough hooks for my hand mixer. which all cost half as much as that thing but takes 4-12 hrs to prepare to my standards. this is a game changer...
absolutely correct comment! Aww no videos about the Saturn 5 rocket today? What's this? A video about a pasta maker? Ahh BORING!! Ohh wait look who made it!!!
That was worth sitting through a review of a pasta machine for. You did however, forget to put a big fat bright arrow pointing at the circle and magnify what was inside of the circle.
If you eventually use "wholemeal flour" let us know how it went if you like! Because the structure of "Wholemeal" is a bit different. I always mess up using this "healthy" variant of flour. The "regular" flour is much easier to work with, wonder how the machine copes. And thanks; great and funny video wd!
+ for me too. Also did you use type 00 flour for this episode? I think pasta requires this. Anyhoo, cheers for your efforts.... Digging your kitchen stuff.
I would say that if you use wholemeal, you need a little bit more liquid as that type of flour absorbs more, and maybe some olive oil to make it more pliable. But I'm no expert in noodles :P
5:19 - But of course you should notice, it's a double-sided pot, so you have to break each egg in the opposite direction, in order for the flour to be encoded accordingly to the pasta tape, so you can eat it properly later, with the fork-track.
Another great Techmoan offering. For those that care making your own pasta is really important. Pasta from the shops is just flour, water and stabilizer to make it last for ever. This just about qualifies as food. Home made pasta is egg based and has a short shelf life but you cook it immediately anyway. You can hand crank pasta and make tagliolini with nothing more than a kitchen knife, Jamie Oliver has a great video showing this. Me, I use my Kenwood Chef and attachments which is far more expensive than the Phillips but it makes me happy.....
Yes! I was just doing the can trick at work yesterday. Never fails to amaze. Luckily I doubt my mates at work watch you, so they'll still think I'm magic.
Thanks for a clear instructional video. I’ve bought one in England. £149.everything is in English plus European languages. Regarding the waste. There’s a setting on the left hand button. You clean the excess off the blade and put in any waste such as you had when you changed shapes. This button extruded extra pasta so you ent up with little waste. Thanks again.
I have always wanted a pasta machine since I made my first batch of home-made pasta. Taste wise, there is no comparison. Fresh tastes so much better than packet. Plus the variety to the owner is almost limitless. Thank you so very much for making this video. I'm off to buy a pasta machine and become a very happy man. Cheers.
Thank you for the Grumpets at the end! Loved the review. Like so many, I couldn't care less about a pasta machine. You're just an amazing story teller, and it is annoyingly addictive watching your creative spark translated into this content, as the Distractor of my day. Also, a little ego boost for an impeccable Philips device (no virtue on my part, just happened to be born in Holland ;-) PS I just blow dry those nooks and crannies. Same thing happens when I rinse off the toys of my kid's flawless taste for impossible combinations of playtime attributes (clay, paint, cardboard and preferably brand new toys) :D
after watching your outro, it reminded me of a close family friend. who had a lot of old tech and he got both my dad and me to fix it for him back in the day. mostly it was a headache to get things fixed, occasionally it was interesting to see how things were made. thank you for the memories
Good morning, I think it is a very handy machine. Now you know what you're eating, no stuff added to your food you don't know and want. As you stated, not for everyone, I do like it. Here in the Netherlands I have never seen it before! Thanks for the video and see you in the next one. Surprise me I would say!
1) 3 minutes of mixing it's a very short time. Use manual feature and let the pasta maker work for, at least 7 minutes. 2) Pasta fresca, the one you made, is cooked in 5 minutes or less: "al dente". 3) You need, at least, some good olive oil and some "parmigiano reggiano or "grana padano" to taste you pasta fresca or, much better, just learn how to prepare "salsa": I think there is no salsa maker yet. 4) Amazing video as usual. Commented just because I am Italian :-)
I have a similar machine and love it. Here's some tips, make multiple batches and freeze what you don't use in dinner sized quantities, that way what you lose at the end is smaller when you consider you've done half a dozen batches. I wrap them in waxed paper and at dinner time just grab a bundle and drop it in boiling water, frozen pasta cooks in the same time as fresh which is less than half the time of the dried stuff. My wife is on a special diet and we make very inexpensive pasta compared to the expensive speciality diet pasta and the limited offers they have. Once you get used to eating fresh pasta you WILL notice the difference!
Pretty neat little machine. Years ago, when the automatic bread makers came out, I got one for my wife, or should say the family. Was extremely easy to use, just dump in your measured ingredients, turn it on, and walk away. When it beeped four hours later,xwe had hot fresh bread. And it was really good. We experimented with different recipes and used the ones we liked. It was great, but the only drawback was the small loaves of bread, about half the size of the ones from the store. We would get fresh cream from a farmer friend and put it in a mason jar and while we waited, we'd make homemade sweetcream butter. Soon as the loaf came out of the machine, the whole family would attack it, and then it was gone 😢 then four more hours until the next loaf was ready. We could have got another machine, and doubled the output, but with them going for over $200 each at the time, it wasn't economically feasible.
The adapters are called Die’s or Extruder Die’s. The best pasta is made with a Bronze die as it gives a rough texture for sauce to cling too. I used to make pasta in a food factory this is pretty much how the huge machine worked. 😀👍🏻
I love your videos so much! Your calm, british style, the flawless quality of your content. Really Impressive! Even makes kitchen gadgets interesting ;)
I've owned this machine for a couple years and find it a complete PITA. It is much easier to make pasta using either a Marcato Atlas 150 or the Kitchenaide attachments for pasta. This machine is very hard to clean, and if your measurements for the liquid are even a little off, you'll spend the evening trying to clean all the attachments. Save your money and buy either a Marcato or the Kitchenaide mixer attachments. If you're determined to own one, look for mine up on Ebay!
@@mheijne2 Mine is for sale on Ebay if you're looking to gift it to someone. I much prefer using the Atlas hand-cranked machine. Much easier, better pasta and virtually no waste.
By far the FUNNIEST puppet segment I’ve ever seen in a Techmoan video! Very well done... and so spot-on with the “clickbait” stereotype. Thanks for the best laugh I’ve had all day.
I have under my belt a long lifetime's worth of regretful expensive kitchen gadget purchases that have all ultimately been donated or thrown away, and I largely agree with you and personally fail to recognize the compelling need for this gadget. Even if you wanted fresh pasta, the local shops almost always have them in the refrigerated section (not as fresh as making it RIGHT NOW but fresher than the dried off-the-shelf pasta). That being said, whether you review kitchen gadgets or audio gear or techie stuff, I always love your videos and watch them first!
I didn't know anyone still made these. I have one I bought in the nineties! Ronco if I remember correctly. Mine came with like 15 different dies for making every kind of pasta in the known universe!! It works great but of course, in those days it was not automatic, you ran it in reverse to mix and then stopped it and ran it forward to extrude the pasta! Great review as always!! Edited to add one of the cool things with this is you can make pasta with like coconut flour or something and get away from the grain if that appeals to you or if you are say gluten intolerant.
Important notice translation: The supplied water tank has 2 sides Side A For egg pasta (normal flour mixed with egg) Side B For all other kinds of pasta Consult the user manual for further details
You should have a puppet only youtube parody side channel where you upload bad versions of your videos every once in a while. I would watch the hell out of that.
Didn't feel like a proper Techmoan video until you started the voiceover part. Kudos on making an enjoyable cooking video from a chap with no literal sense of taste! Thanks
A couple of tips for the pasta. Let it rest after the initial mixing and it will be smoother. Dust it in flour as it comes out to keep it from sticking. Use more water in the pot than you think. This pasta should be miles better than the dry stuff in the box, but maybe there are better brands over in Europe so the difference is not as much. The point of making your own is to get great pasta, it is like eating a whole different food.... not necessarily to save money making it yourself.
I came here for the audio equipment but stayed for the kitchen video. I have no interest in a pasta maker but this engaging personable communication kept me watching. Even stuck around for the puppets! They're growing on me, which makes my kneecaps itch.
I took a photo of a statue portrait of the Emperor Hadrian. It was a head and shoulders, and he was not wearing a toga. In arty circles this is called a nude bust. So, that's what I called it on Flickr. Wham! within days it was the most visited of my photos, still sky rocketing as we speak, several years later. Good job he didn't have his mouth open or it would have broken the Internet.
My mother used to have one in the 80s, it was called Pastamatic made by the Italian company SIMAC. Pastamatic would be a flamboyant name for a portable open reel tape machine capable of engraving soundwaves onto fettuccine. You would then listen to the music content during mastication via bone conduction. Mmm, there's a market niche there...
This is super surreal. I'm used to watching you do audio things and now your cooking and doing the washing up. I honestly love you for this haha oh now your eating! Ahhh no way :D
seems like the sort of gadget youd use a couple of times, then would end up gathering dust at the back of the cupboard. I hate these single purpose devices, may aswell get a good stand mixer and a pasta attachment so at least you can use it for bread or other stuff
PLEASE do more of these.. I love your videos, but honestly don't care about music/recording devices - I just enjoy your voice/presentations/opinion/etc I find myself watching loads of your videos about dixie tubes/etc that I honestly don't care about. Would love to see more reviews of things like this, which I would actually potentially be interesting in buying (I bought the air fryer from your recommendation - and it's great, thank you!) In fact, more stuff like this - and i'd happily give a patreon. But I understand - the other stuff is probably more popular, and this isn't just here for me.
"It's a pasta maker. It makes pasta. The pasta it makes is good."--Techmoan. Brilliant summary.
It's a review. It reviews. The review it made was good.
tl;dr: "Pasta maker makes pasta."
Anthony Shabrack Im your 200th like!
I only see 199, someone must've unliked or something.
Redhotsmasher nope it takes some time
£150 worth every penne.
sir im gonna have to remove your kneecaps now
@@frejneergaard7403 If you need any help with that, just let me know.
Is it worth a Le Pen though?
@@donwald3436 Are you referring to the french politics family Le Pen?
Guigui It’s not funny if you need to explain it
Okay, this has to be the weirdest and most obscure music recording and playback format ever to appear on Techmoan.
KarlBunker I know it’s so interesting and only for $135!
😉
What do your thing the "P" in MP3 stands for?
What else would an Italian grandma record her music onto? Then you play back the spaghetti strands on the Wire Recorder
KarlBunker Well radio was invented my Macaroni, wasn't it?
Isn’t it strange that “ does what it says on the box “ and “ it just works” have become the height of praise these days?
Come on, we all click on tech reviews in the secret hopes that if it isn't marvellous, it will fail spectacularly.
A gadget that simply works and delivers what it promises is not generating much excitement.
I buy Chinese light bulbs that last only days ... sometimes only hours.
I'm amazed when something works at all.
@@kevinbyrne4538 A few years ago I bought a few 'enerygy saving' lightbulbs. Cost a bit more. Still working after almost 10 years.
It's because of the scope of many of these devices. The more it promises the more surprising it is if it works. Sure this just works, but think of what it promises and does. Fresh Pasta hands free in minutes. It's not like a pan or a chipper or a hand crank pasta roller. It has a very big scope
@@AudieHolland my bulbs save even more energy by not working at all.
One of the first things I'd totally do is making a batch of super long spaghetti, then invite someone to dinner and serve them only a single one.
Do it with penne and it'd be like a mile long garden hose
danehb89 There is a pasta that's long penne, it's called ziti I think.
They do something like that in China where the entire bowl of soup noodle is just one noodle
@@artvandelayimports yeah I was just about to comment that as well, though it was from Japan but oh well. I belive it's maruchan or cup noodles that does that exact thing. Can't remember which though.
I love you I come for dinner haha aahhhh
Funny looking chips.
fancy seeing you here
you are the last person I'd expect watching a video about a phillips pasta maker
dammit alex you and your fancy chips
Ohhhh, nice check mark. XD
*UPDATES* (expand this box to read all 3)
1) *You'll find a link to the Philips recipe book (& more) in the Video Description Text Box*
2) According to the Philips Website this should also now be available in the U.K. (when I bought mine in 11/2017 it wasn’t). However I can’t find anywhere with stock.
3) - The toy I mentioned wasn’t from Playmobil - it was the Playdoh mop top hair shop
Techmoan thx for wn other kicken vid
This might make a good video for next week ;)
www.ebay.com/itm/KENNER-PLAY-DOH-VTG-1992-TONKA-SUPERFEAST-MAKE-A-MEAL-SET-EUROPEAN-NEW-MISP-VHTF/281204185142?_trkparms=aid%3D777003%26algo%3DDISCL.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D49893%26meid%3D19807fd6251b44f9bdf4ecd7ac8bda5f%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D331079189125%26itm%3D281204185142&_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985
In the U.S. it was called the Fuzzy Pumper Barber Shop. I kinda like the U.K. name better. Still, a fun toy .
i know this sounds cliche... but... home made pasta is way better. the stuff you buy has too much water in it(economical purposes)
I found that thinnish microfiber towels do a VERY good drying those weird spaces. Only downside is microfiber towels really can't be washed with other fabrics, although with all the screens you have with your collections that might not be a problem.
I love how a man who can't taste makes some of the best reviews of food-related appliances. There's some wicked irony going on here.
Texture is at least 40% of the joy of food, in my opinion. But also Matt could read the phone book and I'd watch
I made tagliatelle once, by hand, ie I mixed the egg and flour in a bowl with a wooden spoon, rolled it out with a rolling pin, and cut it into strips with a knife.
Unfortunately I undercooked the pasta as I was too afraid of overcooking it, since everyone I had told I was going to make it told me to be careful not to overcook it, as it takes much shorter than dry pasta, and the recipe assumed the pasta would be thinner (as made by a machine, rather than the thicker hand cut) and I couldn't keep on cooking it further as I finished cooking it by tossing it in the sauce.
Anyways the pasta was undercooked and had such a bite to it as if I was eating meat, so texture wise it was horrible, non the less, flavour wise it was the best tasting pasta I've ever had in my life
He can't taste?
@@Brokenrocktail indeed, he lost his sense of taste long ago. Can't remember off the top of my head how it happened, but he seems to cope with it pretty well I'd say.
Techmoan: "I don't suppose there are really that many kitchen gadgets."
American Late Night Infomercials: "Hold my beer... IN THIS NEW DELUX BEER HOLDER! ONLY $5.99!!! ORDER WITHIN THE NEXT TEN MINUTES AND WE'LL THROW IN A CLOTH BAG THAT'LL MICROWAVE A BAKED POTATO PERFECTLY!!!"
Holy Baader-Meinhof Effect, I just learned about the existence of those microwave potato cloth bags yesterday and now I keep seeing references to them everywhere.
Pen. Brilliant. Thank you, I've had a bad day but that humoured me. Thumbs up.
well after all it is one of the possible translations
Maccaroni. Penne rigate are bigger.
The end skit has to be the best parody of youtube clickbait I've seen.
I know, right? He seriously nailed it
And now watch my video on the SURPRISING FULLY AUTOMATED ORGANIC SPAGETTI MAKER WITH CLOUD SERVICE AND INTEGRATED VOICE ASSISTANT. Just kidding ;-)
@Matrix29bear I was going to say, I've got a cupboard in my kitchen stuffed to the brim with gadgets. Bean grinder, spiraliser, milk frother, hand blender (with 8 attachments), food processor, air fryer, bread maker, juicer, smoothie maker, soup maker, salad spinner, sandwich maker, low fat grill sponsored by a boxer, electric carving knife, electric orange squeezer (also does other citrus fruit), apple press, mandolin (the thing that slices veggies thin, not the musical instrument), vegetable steamer tower and some other weird beige thing that I can't quite work out what it does, probably because half the bits are missing. And that's not counting the toaster, kettle and microwave that take up counter top space.
@Moon shiner After the mandolin part I was half expecting a, "Mandolin (the musical instrument)"
Thank you for your excellent video. I got my machine today and was successful in making spaghetti, thanks to your instructions. I made it with semolina flour, 2 eggs, and all-purpose flour. I'm in the United States.
excellent puppets bit
adam medbery agreed
What's the track for the puppets section??? Thanks
Dear Techmoan, thank you for your video. Fresh pasta is very different from dry pasta, you have to cook shortly fresh pasta until it floats on the surface of (salted) water, normally it requires 3 minutes. I think that in 5 minutes you obtain am overcooked pasta. Nice machine! :) Hello from Italy! :)
I don't speak Italian, but I've studied Spanish and Latin, so I can usually figure it out. "Important Note: the provided water cup has two sides. Side A for pasta with eggs (normal flour mixed with eggs). Side B for all other types of pasta. Consult the user's manual for further details."
This is a perfect translation!
Perfect, ciao 😉
Entonces tu sabe la significancia de las palabras "Pene Pasta", que no? :P
lol I'm a native Spanish speaking and I tried to read that note, I only understood like half, (alluovo, mischiata con l'uovo, per tutti flu altri tipi di) those where the word I had no idea what they meant until I read it translation, then they clicked
Exactly :)
I've owned a pasta maker not unlike this one in the past. What I found was what you've found. It's really cheaper to buy dry pasta than making it with this rather costly machine. It's really overkill if you're just going to make standard pasta. The benefit to a pasta maker is that you can make it with whatever flour you like rather than being limited by what the store carries. The only real downside is that you have to eat all of the pasta you make or you need to put it in the fridge. It's not like dried pasta that keeps in a container for a long time. You could dry it in a dehydrator and make your own dried pasta, but that's an extra step and it requires a dehydrator. And then there's the machine cleanup. Overall, it is fun to make, but the fun soon wears off when there aren't enough shapes and having to clean it up every time you use it. On top of that, it's a pretty chunky machine that you need to store someplace.
There is a youtube channel called Falcon Kitchenware selling what appears to be a knockoff machine. It's unfortunately not in English but you could use the CC/translate function. That channel is full of ideas and recipes for how to use the machine to make all sorts of cookies.
I've got the bigger version and absolutely loved it for making ramen, I added chili and other favours to the mix so you can taste every strand with that.
A tip with cleaning the disc with small holes, just put it in the freezer a lot easier to poke it through when the dough is hardened.
navusx do you use the same mix or did you modify it? Id like to get one of these to make udon
Alek, for water to flour ratio I'm pretty much stick to the recommended measurement but I play around with the ingredients a fair bit sometimes I added rice flour/potato flour for a more chewy texture + herbs and spices . You'll get a hang of it after a little while, it only takes 3 Mins to make so hardly wasting any time to experiment and the cleaning process is a breeze.There are a lot of diff discs for various shapes even dumpling wrappers or the very fine angel hair noodle. Obviously it won't be as good as the properly made stuff but it's damn fun to play with and try out diff recipes. Making Udon noodle will be perfect with this :)
Alex the french guy has a great ramen recipe, and he has some videos on drying and storing it also. recipe here ruclips.net/video/fnrW4oan_Mo/видео.html
I think the benefit of knowing exactly what is going into your food is a massive plus for some people today. Superb review as always!
Lifes good when techmoan finally posts a new food gadget review
I love the way you review these kitchen items. It really shows the other side of you. When you review tech gadgets you act a bit like a professional and don’t talk about the average consumer very much. When you review these kitchen gadgets. You seem to give a different perspective. The consumers perspective. You don’t talk about how fast the motor spins or how watts it takes. You just focus on the sound it makes and it’s reliability.
Came for the pasta, stayed for the puppets.
What I love about you my man, is that you really try(and succeed) to get the interesting things even if its a bit harder than just walking to the local store..
Quality content with a big Q!
Even Techmoan's pasta maker has a B-side! Also, it seems like some of the holes for the spaghetti seemed to clog. And ouch at that price tag! Looks like it's around $150 in the US. Can't wait to see the nude explosion lip-sync make-up fail, though.
id get a hand crank steel one, mine was moms wedding gift and still works, AND you can make dry pasta with it
Dried pasta is just that, isn't it?
I'm waiting for Aldi to release a knock off version for £30 or so. They made a nutri bullet blender for £20, an electric spiralizer for £25 etc, so they must do this soon.
idk, the family recipe does not use water
I only clicked on this video because of nude explosion lip-sync make-up fail.
I’d much prefer to harvest fresh pasta from a pasta tree than, this fake processed stuff
I remember that April fools joke, amazing how many people fell for it, lol.
My mom was still talking about that prank to me in Latin America as I grew up two decades later! It transcended both time and continents. 😄
bUt pAsTa doEsN’t gRoW ON tReeS
Tie for best April fools along with Swedish TV's "put a socking over your tv set and get colour tv" from the sixties. Lots of innocent stockings "pined for the fjords" that day
You are right, I goin to pick past from the local trees tomorrow
I'm never this early!
Kitchen gadget techmoan is my favourite techmoan.
you could say you'll be _moaning_ for more ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Only problem is the lack of taste :)
Was about to say the same
100% agree
👌👌
Kitchen gadgets, watches, oldschool tech, I enjoy your take on things.
That said I am someone who enjoys pasta. to the point i have my own pasta roller and dough hooks for my hand mixer. which all cost half as much as that thing but takes 4-12 hrs to prepare to my standards. this is a game changer...
One of the best muppets yet! BTW send the muppets over to 8-bit Guy, he's got some problems with Trolls.
Me - "Pasta maker review? Bah, sounds like a dumb video... Oh wait, it's by Techmoan *click*"
absolutely correct comment! Aww no videos about the Saturn 5 rocket today?
What's this? A video about a pasta maker? Ahh BORING!! Ohh wait look who made it!!!
Especially the part where he almost dropped it on the floor. Love live action!
"Does this ever happen to you? **clip of techmoan** Get our new Pasta Machine Restraining Strap! Now in 4 vibrant colours!"
Tranime Girl I know right
The funny part is he has no sense of taste, yet he reviews a food making product xD
That was worth sitting through a review of a pasta machine for. You did however, forget to put a big fat bright arrow pointing at the circle and magnify what was inside of the circle.
"Well first, the video's crap."
"A bit harsh."
"But that's never stopped anyone."
~RUclips~in~a~nutshell~
Kitchen Gadget Review! We're going old school boys!
Welcome back to another episode of _Cooking with Techmoan_ , Here we have the- BLIMEY! THE PASTA CAME OUT QUICK!
Techmoan channeling his inner Stuart Ashens.
When....o when are the two going to go a video together??!?!?!
“He says, as he breaks everything,” Yes!
Techmoan is the only channel that could get me to tune in for this long about a pasta maker.
If you eventually use "wholemeal flour" let us know how it went if you like! Because the structure of "Wholemeal" is a bit different. I always mess up using this "healthy" variant of flour. The "regular" flour is much easier to work with, wonder how the machine copes. And thanks; great and funny video wd!
I’ll let you know how it goes.
+ for me too. Also did you use type 00 flour for this episode? I think pasta requires this. Anyhoo, cheers for your efforts.... Digging your kitchen stuff.
I would say that if you use wholemeal, you need a little bit more liquid as that type of flour absorbs more, and maybe some olive oil to make it more pliable. But I'm no expert in noodles :P
Wholemeal flour tastes sweeter but the texture is wrong, from my experience.
@@Techmoan How did it go?
5:19 - But of course you should notice, it's a double-sided pot, so you have to break each egg in the opposite direction, in order for the flour to be encoded accordingly to the pasta tape, so you can eat it properly later, with the fork-track.
Excellent end sketch! : - O
Really love your unintentional humour , so off the cuff and honest . Great vids by the way .
I love, love, love homemade pasta! it does taste different, maybe the texture or the fact that you can change the actual flavor.
Also good for people with dietary limitations.
I just wanted to thank you for your amazing videos. I could watch you go over interesting tech for hours. Hope all is well:)
16:08 Hahahaha I love the "Flippin 'eck" mug!
Another great Techmoan offering. For those that care making your own pasta is really important. Pasta from the shops is just flour, water and stabilizer to make it last for ever. This just about qualifies as food. Home made pasta is egg based and has a short shelf life but you cook it immediately anyway. You can hand crank pasta and make tagliolini with nothing more than a kitchen knife, Jamie Oliver has a great video showing this. Me, I use my Kenwood Chef and attachments which is far more expensive than the Phillips but it makes me happy.....
More of the Puppets sketches/skit please because it is funny and enjoyable. Thanks!!!!
Yes! I was just doing the can trick at work yesterday. Never fails to amaze. Luckily I doubt my mates at work watch you, so they'll still think I'm magic.
Maybe someday if you find a pasta maker that plays cassettes, minidiscs, tefifone cartridges and little 3 inch reel tapes, you can do a review on it.
Attach a band from the motorised crank to one of these.
ruclips.net/video/KOXXxacwS5Q/видео.html
With a nixie-tube display....
Thanks for a clear instructional video. I’ve bought one in England. £149.everything is in English plus European languages. Regarding the waste. There’s a setting on the left hand button. You clean the excess off the blade and put in any waste such as you had when you changed shapes. This button extruded extra pasta so you ent up with little waste. Thanks again.
I get way to excited when I see Philips or Sony products
I have always wanted a pasta machine since I made my first batch of home-made pasta. Taste wise, there is no comparison. Fresh tastes so much better than packet. Plus the variety to the owner is almost limitless. Thank you so very much for making this video. I'm off to buy a pasta machine and become a very happy man. Cheers.
Thank you for the Grumpets at the end! Loved the review. Like so many, I couldn't care less about a pasta machine. You're just an amazing story teller, and it is annoyingly addictive watching your creative spark translated into this content, as the Distractor of my day. Also, a little ego boost for an impeccable Philips device (no virtue on my part, just happened to be born in Holland ;-)
PS I just blow dry those nooks and crannies. Same thing happens when I rinse off the toys of my kid's flawless taste for impossible combinations of playtime attributes (clay, paint, cardboard and preferably brand new toys) :D
after watching your outro, it reminded me of a close family friend. who had a lot of old tech and he got both my dad and me to fix it for him back in the day. mostly it was a headache to get things fixed, occasionally it was interesting to see how things were made. thank you for the memories
I always love the puppet segments.
Good morning,
I think it is a very handy machine. Now you know what you're eating, no stuff added to your food you don't know and want. As you stated, not for everyone, I do like it. Here in the Netherlands I have never seen it before! Thanks for the video and see you in the next one. Surprise me I would say!
1) 3 minutes of mixing it's a very short time. Use manual feature and let the pasta maker work for, at least 7 minutes.
2) Pasta fresca, the one you made, is cooked in 5 minutes or less: "al dente".
3) You need, at least, some good olive oil and some "parmigiano reggiano or "grana padano" to taste you pasta fresca or, much better, just learn how to prepare "salsa": I think there is no salsa maker yet.
4) Amazing video as usual. Commented just because I am Italian :-)
He has no sense of taste and he can eat his pasta to the done-ness he prefers.
Salsa on pasta? Marco Polo was a mistake
@@wiiztec Uh, I think he means sauce :)
@@wiiztec salsa is the italian word for sauce
I thought it was the spanish word for sauce
Welp, I'm buying one of these this week. A great review by one of the only reviewers I trust.
I have a similar machine and love it. Here's some tips, make multiple batches and freeze what you don't use in dinner sized quantities, that way what you lose at the end is smaller when you consider you've done half a dozen batches. I wrap them in waxed paper and at dinner time just grab a bundle and drop it in boiling water, frozen pasta cooks in the same time as fresh which is less than half the time of the dried stuff. My wife is on a special diet and we make very inexpensive pasta compared to the expensive speciality diet pasta and the limited offers they have. Once you get used to eating fresh pasta you WILL notice the difference!
Pretty neat little machine. Years ago, when the automatic bread makers came out, I got one for my wife, or should say the family. Was extremely easy to use, just dump in your measured ingredients, turn it on, and walk away. When it beeped four hours later,xwe had hot fresh bread. And it was really good. We experimented with different recipes and used the ones we liked. It was great, but the only drawback was the small loaves of bread, about half the size of the ones from the store. We would get fresh cream from a farmer friend and put it in a mason jar and while we waited, we'd make homemade sweetcream butter. Soon as the loaf came out of the machine, the whole family would attack it, and then it was gone 😢 then four more hours until the next loaf was ready. We could have got another machine, and doubled the output, but with them going for over $200 each at the time, it wasn't economically feasible.
Nice! Fresh pasta is so much better than the hard store-bought stuff...
. . . and don't get me started about how hard and stale those store-bought biscotti are!
Techmoan uploads are amongst my favorite uploads. That skit at the end was GREAT!
Let's get this out onto a tray!
"No hiss."
It’s great to have fresh pasta and YOU get to control what’s really in it. Great video, thanks!
Came for the Hifi, stayed for the pasta.
The adapters are called Die’s or Extruder Die’s. The best pasta is made with a Bronze die as it gives a rough texture for sauce to cling too. I used to make pasta in a food factory this is pretty much how the huge machine worked. 😀👍🏻
Puppet outro is great!
I love your videos so much!
Your calm, british style, the flawless quality of your content. Really Impressive! Even makes kitchen gadgets interesting ;)
Philips - It ain't much if it ain't Dutch.
Also, man that puppet sketch was as relatable as it can be.
I've owned this machine for a couple years and find it a complete PITA. It is much easier to make pasta using either a Marcato Atlas 150 or the Kitchenaide attachments for pasta. This machine is very hard to clean, and if your measurements for the liquid are even a little off, you'll spend the evening trying to clean all the attachments.
Save your money and buy either a Marcato or the Kitchenaide mixer attachments. If you're determined to own one, look for mine up on Ebay!
I own one and it is a pleasure, eas to prepare pasta, mid or ramen, easy to clean and very very tasty
@@mheijne2 Mine is for sale on Ebay if you're looking to gift it to someone. I much prefer using the Atlas hand-cranked machine. Much easier, better pasta and virtually no waste.
£170! - Mamma Mia!
With such a price, i hope you can make lotsa SPAGHET
By far the FUNNIEST puppet segment I’ve ever seen in a Techmoan video! Very well done... and so spot-on with the “clickbait” stereotype. Thanks for the best laugh I’ve had all day.
As italian, I approve this machine! :D
I have under my belt a long lifetime's worth of regretful expensive kitchen gadget purchases that have all ultimately been donated or thrown away, and I largely agree with you and personally fail to recognize the compelling need for this gadget.
Even if you wanted fresh pasta, the local shops almost always have them in the refrigerated section (not as fresh as making it RIGHT NOW but fresher than the dried off-the-shelf pasta).
That being said, whether you review kitchen gadgets or audio gear or techie stuff, I always love your videos and watch them first!
With this device, user's pastabilities are few
kamulecPL12 if I had said that blissey would kill me. I have the world's strangest daughter
Swaim!
kamulecPL12 - Are you saying the user would be a negative noodle? Certainly not an anti-pasta!
I started making audible noises of satisfaction the moment I saw you had done another kitchen video!
I saw your video this evening, 1 hour later I went shopping. They had this machine at 50% off.
I didn't know anyone still made these. I have one I bought in the nineties! Ronco if I remember correctly. Mine came with like 15 different dies for making every kind of pasta in the known universe!! It works great but of course, in those days it was not automatic, you ran it in reverse to mix and then stopped it and ran it forward to extrude the pasta! Great review as always!! Edited to add one of the cool things with this is you can make pasta with like coconut flour or something and get away from the grain if that appeals to you or if you are say gluten intolerant.
"Take a look of the trending page
-yes, that's where the best videos go..."
Best joke of 2018
Mat, this has seriously become one of my favorite channels. Comfy, simple, thoroughly entertaining. #MatIsAwesome
Important notice translation:
The supplied water tank has 2 sides
Side A
For egg pasta (normal flour mixed with egg)
Side B
For all other kinds of pasta
Consult the user manual for further details
So I've translated it correctly, even without speaking Italian. My Latin helped me a lot.
Its has been a while, since last kitchen gadget video, it went well despite techmoan having no sense of taste, cheers
You should have a puppet only youtube parody side channel where you upload bad versions of your videos every once in a while. I would watch the hell out of that.
Didn't feel like a proper Techmoan video until you started the voiceover part. Kudos on making an enjoyable cooking video from a chap with no literal sense of taste! Thanks
A couple of tips for the pasta. Let it rest after the initial mixing and it will be smoother. Dust it in flour as it comes out to keep it from sticking. Use more water in the pot than you think. This pasta should be miles better than the dry stuff in the box, but maybe there are better brands over in Europe so the difference is not as much. The point of making your own is to get great pasta, it is like eating a whole different food.... not necessarily to save money making it yourself.
Hats off my friend, this does look like a really cool kitchen gadget!
unbox and review the Philips air fryer
Rohit Kumar ruclips.net/video/APCv5FRoqmo/видео.html 9:22
I actually watched that video and totally forgot about it. Thanks!
Rohit Kumar Sure thing buddy :)
I came here for the audio equipment but stayed for the kitchen video. I have no interest in a pasta maker but this engaging personable communication kept me watching. Even stuck around for the puppets! They're growing on me, which makes my kneecaps itch.
I took a photo of a statue portrait of the Emperor Hadrian. It was a head and shoulders, and he was not wearing a toga. In arty circles this is called a nude bust. So, that's what I called it on Flickr. Wham! within days it was the most visited of my photos, still sky rocketing as we speak, several years later. Good job he didn't have his mouth open or it would have broken the Internet.
Nice picture
If this guy did a review on a plank of wood, i'd probably watch it. I like his reviews as he explains things well and doesn't get too technical.
My mother used to have one in the 80s, it was called Pastamatic made by the Italian company SIMAC.
Pastamatic would be a flamboyant name for a portable open reel tape machine capable of engraving soundwaves onto fettuccine.
You would then listen to the music content during mastication via bone conduction.
Mmm, there's a market niche there...
The kitchen gadget episodes are the most fun to watch
British man eating pasta he can't taste makes me very hungry.
For some reason.
To be fair, it's not like pasta tastes of much.
I'm not usually into kitchen gadgets, but this one I found to be quite interesting. Would make a great gift
lol you had it right when you said pen-nay not pen for penne. (:
This is super surreal. I'm used to watching you do audio things and now your cooking and doing the washing up. I honestly love you for this haha oh now your eating! Ahhh no way :D
seems like the sort of gadget youd use a couple of times, then would end up gathering dust at the back of the cupboard. I hate these single purpose devices, may aswell get a good stand mixer and a pasta attachment so at least you can use it for bread or other stuff
i love that there is a made Portuguese closed captioning. shows some peoples dedication.
Automatic bread maker coming next?
my heart jumped at 6:10. incredible action-drama there. pure analog stuff. :D
IT'S 2.18am, WHY AM I WATCHING A PASTA MAKER REVIEW?
DANKMEME Creations123 it's 2:34 and I'm suffering the same fate.... Damn insomnia
You can use air duster spray to remove moisture from the hard to reach parts of the mixing bowl after cleaning.
Playdo mop top hair shop!
PLEASE do more of these.. I love your videos, but honestly don't care about music/recording devices - I just enjoy your voice/presentations/opinion/etc
I find myself watching loads of your videos about dixie tubes/etc that I honestly don't care about.
Would love to see more reviews of things like this, which I would actually potentially be interesting in buying (I bought the air fryer from your recommendation - and it's great, thank you!)
In fact, more stuff like this - and i'd happily give a patreon. But I understand - the other stuff is probably more popular, and this isn't just here for me.