My latest kitchen toy is the
Torchio Bigoli Hand Press Pasta Maker, used to make extruded pasta. The torchio needs to be mounted to the edge of a table or traditional a bench where the operator sat behind it. I have heard to people mounting it to an island/table on casters, but unless you could lock all the wheels the act of extruding the pasta would cause the table to move. I mounted mine to a 2"x12"x30" piece of pine which I can clamp to a work table when in use.
The torchio comes with two dies to make bigoli and gargati. From a blog,
A Serious Bunburyist, he states that dies for the Italian Dolly pasta extruder fit. If you can think of a pasta shape, there is a
die for that.
The torchio is much cheaper than an electric pasta extruder and you could easily knock out enough fresh pasta for a medium sized restaurant in an hour or so.
