And should you go for an electric pasta maker or a manual, or plump for one that comes with a pasta shape maker over one that looks like a work of art? The key thing is to look for quality in the ...

Our top picks will have you churning out impressive homemade noodles. Nick DeSimone is a pasta-obsessed vegetarian chef who spent nearly 10 years in restaurants before becoming a food writer.

There are less expensive pasta makers, like the strongly-reviewed Marcato Atlas, but it is manual. The stand mixer attachment really takes the physical labour out of the pasta-making equation.

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