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Summary: very fun attachment
Comment: This was a present for my husband. He love new things and do staff by himself. the attachment is grate, easy to use, clean and come with a recipe booklet. is grate.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Works for me
Comment: I almost did not buy this because of the reviews,however I am glad I did. I have never used a pasta machine or even made pasta before. I went to You Tube and watched a video of a Chef using this attachment (there are You Tube videos for all the attachments). I made some meat filling and rolled out some pasta sheets (to a thickness of 3) and cranked out a sheet of ravioli no problem! as I was feeding the pasta I used the scoop to press the filling as I went and had full ravi's. I then used a toothpick to poke a little hole in each ravioli and cooked them. Not one ravioli blew up or leaked. This attachment works.
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Summary: At first I didn 't believe the reviews
Comment: I bought this attachment despite all the negative reviews because I love my Kitchenaid and all its other attachments. Unfortunately, the negative reviewers were correct, and I returned it within a week. It is true that, by using thick pasta sheets, little filling, and re-sealing most of the edges by hand, you can make ravioli in a slow hand-cranked fashion. But nobody who has eaten really good ravioli would settle for what this device can produce, and I can make better ravioli faster with my little $10 cutting wheel. The pasta rollers for the Kitchenaid are excellent, and I would advise any real pasta lover to get the roller attachment and fill and cut the ravioli by hand. It's quicker and produces a far better product.
Incidentally, I bought mine from Williams-Sonoma, and the clerk there took it back but insisted that she had seen it, knew that it was powered by the mixer, and said that I must have attached it incorrectly. Even the Kitchenaid company admitted that it is hand-cranked and not powered by the mixer in any way.
In summation, Kitchenaid should be ashamed to keep selling this. It is far below their usual very high standard.
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Summary: really is a waste of money
Comment: I used this in a pasta/ravioli class and it is NOT worth $130. First, it does take practice, but so does using a ravioli tray or making them free hand. The ravioli we made came out better using a $20 tray or free hand with a $6 fluted cutting wheel than they did on this thing. Sure, if you practice you could get it to work...but it would take less time and practice to use a ravioli tray or cutter and save you more than $100. Even when we got "good" with it, it was not a major time saver, in fact, I could do more by hand in less time. You could buy dozens of cool sizes and shapes with the pans for the cost of this one piece of equipment. This is one place where KitchenAid misses the mark...
I will say that the roller is a lifesaver, and I will not use a hand-crank machine again...but this is a waste of money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This is an awful product!
Comment: Please read my review of the KitchenAid Pasta Rollers set. I love them. I love my food grinder and some other attatchments. So, I thought I'd love this ravioli maker as well. I've been making pasta and ravioli for 20 plus years and I have several presses for shaping my ravioli. I have taught classes on the subject.
THIS PRODUCT DOESN'T WORK!
It's impossible to get the air out of each ravioli. If there's air they explode when you cook them. I wrote to KitchenAid after returning mine. But they still make them. I told them that if a first time ravioli maker bought this, they'd think it was their fault that it didn't work. It is impossible to make a good ravioli with this type of machine.
1st, there's the air that gets sealed into the little pockets.
2nd, you can't get a good seal on the raviolis if the filling is in the seal. The filling will be in the seal because you just fill the hopper with filling and keep the unit rolling them out. I accused KitchenAid of not even having filled Ravioli's in the pictures on the box. I think they're air. A nice thin delicate ravioli will be thin enough to see the color of the filling (or at least look a different color) in the middle. Look at the picture. And the hopper is installed in the picture, but there's no filling. Most of my fillings are dark - my cheese filling has spinach and basil in it, and has been run through a food processor to be smooth so it won't tear the pasta. My meat fillings are all dark too. They don't look like the picture.
I have never been disappointed with KitchenAid before, but this ONE disappointment was a big one.
Go back and search for a Ravioli press and a cheap rolling pin to help seal them. They can be found for $15. You can buy all sorts of sizes and shapes and still have money left over to buy some really nice cheese!
Good luck and happy pasta making. ;)
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