I recently purchased an Imperial electric pasta maker from a thrift store, but the instruction book was not with it. It's the type that mixes the dough and extrudes it, supposedly. When I tried it out, the dough mixed just fine, but I could not get the dough to come out of the machine! I tried adding more eggs, more flour, and still didn't have any luck. Mechanically, everything seems to work just fine. While searching for help, I found out that Imperial went out of business a few years ago, so I can't obtain another set of instructions from them. I read that some other electric machines don't work unless you use the manufacturer's given recipe and am wondering if mine doesn't fall into that category. Is there anyone around who has one of these or can offer any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

-- Reghan (reghan@columbus.rr.com), January 10, 2002

Answers

I have tried several pasta machines and finally went back to the stainlss steel hand cranked pasta roller,cutter. It will make every thing from angelhair pasta to potsticker dough. the pasta extruder for my kitchen aid mixer is gathering dust in the pantry

-- paul mccloud (jwvonmantik@attbi.com), January 10, 2002.

You can also use the hand-cranked ones for rolling out and mixing FIMO and other similar-type clays. Don't use it again for food though, lol.

-- GT (nospam@nospam.com), January 12, 2002.