Pasta in breadmaker

laura_g_3

Hello there!

After reading all about breadmakers on here I decided to take the plunge and buy one for myself. It's the Russell Hobbs Breadman Ultimate and was reduced to £40 from £100 (plus a free electric knife) so I think I got a pretty good deal. And I'm really pleased with the bread from it.

Anyway, my one disappointment is that it doesn't have a pasta setting, and I was wondering if it's possible to make pasta dough in it without the special setting? Does anyone know if that's possible?

Thanks!

Pooky

I've never heard of a BM making pasta dough before........

I'd like to know the answer to this cos I love fresh pasta.

waspie72

Me too as that would be very handy!!

lizzyb1812

I would just use the dough setting and this link seems to confirm that:

http://www.recipezaar.com/79031

Incidentally recipezaar is a huge recipe site - it's USA based so some of the ingredients and measurements are different to English ones, but it's pretty easy to convert and even easier if you get yourself a set of "cup" measures.

lizzyb

organic_wanabe

Thanks for the recipe link - I fancy having a go at making my own pasta. I didn't realise it would require 5 eggs though!

bluemoon_3

There's a pasta dough recipe here that uses chick-pea or soy flour instead of eggs:

http://www.vegsource.com/articles/bryanna_pasta_maker.htm

It also has quite comprehensive instructions even if you use a different recipe.

I've made this a couple of times, and just cut it into strips since I don't have a pasta machine. It's lovely, as Bryanna's recipes usually are, though quite different to any pasta you can buy in the supermarket.

You can use a breadmaker - use the dough setting and take out the dough as soon as it finishes kneading. Don't leave it for the 'rising' stage.

lizzyb1812

Organic wanabe - I wasn't suggesting you use the recipe that is in the link above, but that the principle of using the dough setting with your own recipe will work.

Find a pasta recipe that seems to suit and then load the ingredients into your BM in the normal order (some BMs want water first, some want it last, etc). Then set the BM to "dough" and start it off. All you are using the BM for is as a mixer/kneader to cut out the labour-intensive bit of making pasta.

You'll still have to do all the rolling, cutting etc I've freecycled quite a bit of kitchen stuff recently and will soon be putting in a wanted requested for a pasta roller. :j

lizzyb

thriftlady_2

Surely all a BM can do with pasta is mix it together and knead it ? Why no mix in abowl and knead by hand

lizzyb1812

Or do it in your food processor - which is what I would actually do myself.

I was just answering the question from the OP, although I can see that not everyone wants to do hand kneading

lizzyb

mah_jong

lizzyb1812 wrote:

Or do it in your food processor - which is what I would actually do myself.

I was just answering the question from the OP, although I can see that not everyone wants to do hand kneading

lizzyb

.... also not every one physically can! I can just (but the results are range from dire to dismal)

Fivenations

I would be very careful - pasta dough is a lot stiffer than bread dough so take care not to burn out the motor. I could be wrong.