Buying a kitchen appliance involves more than comparing price points and attachment counts. For home cooks who use their equipment regularly and often cook alongside family members, the safety design of a machine deserves the same attention as its performance specifications. Standards maintained by Electric Pasta Machine Manufacturers have improved considerably in response to consumer...

Pasta dough is not a single thing. Anyone who has spent time making pasta at home knows that the dough for a simple egg tagliatelle behaves quite differently from a dough enriched with butter, additional yolks, spinach, or squid ink. The range of doughs that home cooks want to work with has expanded considerably as cooking confidence has grown, and the machines used to process those doughs need...