Salute! It's Alex! Welcome back to the ... ... Nothing ... I broke another pasta machine ahhh ... I had two accidents. You probably saw the first accident, in a video awhile ago might be understandable as my machine was super cheap but for the second one, I used like some pretty legit, Italian brand, and although I did nothing particular to it, it did FAIL on me again! so long story short, I'm basically FED UP with this situation! I have something else in mind, it requires a bit of er... confidence ... and also doing some shopping online. I want a pasta machine so I'm going on the website AliExpress. It's not a paid sponsorship by the way! It allows me to get in touch directly with suppliers and factories from all over the world er.... mainly ... China... ok ... this one is exactly the one I had earlier minus the price of course, which is only 10 dollars on this website. I think it's the right value for it, but there is no point in me buying this again. and its SOMETHING BOLD!!! so now... oooo ooooohhhhh..... 30, 40 kilos per hour nahhhh ... this is too expensive! I'm looking for something cheaper, and easier to fix if its broken during delivery, which I'm sure happens quite alot. yeah, this is good, yeah man this is good! ahhhhhh.... I think we have a DEAL! BUY NOW. so that whole thing, is a pretty accurate re-enactment of what I did exactly three weeks ago. And to be honest, I was very much worried that my package would never show up! Boy was I wrong! what's in this package can solve my problem. This is supposed to get me from amateur side Who wants to be an amateur? All the way to the Pro side! I wanna be a Pro! Here it is! oh! I don't like the sound of this... ahhhh hahahha oops! **** me! look at this! completely damaged! Er.... I know it might sound a bit unusual but before we actually start the proper product review, I need to fix a few things first. otherwise, nothing's gonna work. ahhhh.... now we can start the product review. so the machine comes with the nice... er you know, premium manual, when you can read this and those machines are good helper of modern families. would it help possibly? is it modern? I don't know, you tell me :) Let me state this clear! The main reason why I got this machine in the first place, is because of this. You see the small gear, meshing up with the big gear? this is called a, gear reduction, 12 teeth and the big gear has 48. I know what you're thinking! You don't care that much! WRONG! The speed of the big gear is 4 times slower than the speed of the small gear. But the torque is gonna be 4 times stronger! and that's ... what's super important for me especially when I work with low hydration dough... which are Super stiff! and that naturally leads us to the next mechanism that I want to review the flattening system. How to adjust the thickness of your dough? there are 2 knobs in the front when you unscrew them the space between the 2 rods gets wider I think this is a great feature, because I can do 1,2, 3,4 milimeters, but I can also do 1.5, 2.5. See! This is analogue! and now to the noodle knife. The machine came along with 2 knives attachment. This one is made to cut 4 milimeters pasta and this one is made to cut 2 milimeters pasta. you just have to slide them in and then you er, bear with me... secure them in place with this little tab then as you spin the bigger rods, the smaller ones are doing their duty. without further a due, lets just give this machine a proper test. so I suggest we start with something simple, an Italian pasta dough so the recipe is very straight forward, its a 100gram of flour and 1 egg Fold, press, fold, press, fold, press fold, press, fold, press, fold, press. Well that was before, 'cause now we can also use our heavy-duty pasta maker to do the kneading process. ok guys I'm sure that everything's gonna be fine, but I still need your positive vibes on this 'cause its the very first time that I'm gonna use this machine I'm not worried, I'm not worried!? The first spin.... Nice! you wanna fold it on itself. Here we go again! so honestly, getting that dough super smooth was like a breeze! right... Let's flatten it out. ok its probably useless now but er... it was just to prove my point that dough is crazy thin! Like I can almost see through it. I can definitely see through it! ok, let's move on to the second dough. it's gonna be way more challenging for this bad boy! so it's gonna be a 40% hydration dough. Here I've got 400grams of flour, meaning that I need 160 grams of water. oh I can already tell this is gonna put some stress on those rods! Do not be intimidated by this dough. It's very stiff! at first you think its not gonna come together but it DEFINITELY WILL! Right, so the dough is far from being ready. you see, so crumbly, it's not smooth ok right, let's open those rods to their maximum, and pray! oh so for the record, I'm not putting that many effort into this. Almost nothing I should say. Right, time to give the noodle knife a test! ooh la la, come on, look at those beauties! More! Hahahaaaaaaahahaha! Ok! Enough of the joyful excitement for now! let's just dive into practical disappointment! I'm French after all, I need to complain about something! First of all, there is no way to feed the dough properly into the machine! a part from this dough feeder. now a quick word about the locking mechanism, I think we can all agree that it's... at best... Pathetic! There is also a problem with the main wheel which is you know... jiggling around. It's not that stable! Especially if we want to just you know... CRANK THE SPEED A LITTLE BIT! cause I don't know if you noticed? But there is a groove in this spinning wheel which basically means that we can erm... strap it up to a belt and to a tootootootootootootoootoo toootooototototoototototooo of course I can't wait to get my hands dirty and make you know a... chinese pasta maker machine 2.0 er... But I think that will have to wait until part 2 Well I know what you're thinking! you're thinking "that boy just bought a big ass pasta machine to make even more ramen!" and... and about this, you couldn't be possibly more right! The thing is ... you just don't see the value in ... a reliable pasta maker! you can flatten doughs ... but you can make Italian pasta... you can make Dumplings! You can even make French Stuff! But with a you know ... small twist like making puff pastry with this, is a breeeze! Ahhhhhhh..... A big thumbs up like it and share that over all your social media #Spreaditlikebutter You know the famous greasy Hastag. People let's click subscribe 'cause I make new videos every week It's always about pushing further! It's always about challenging the status quo when you know... having fun! Take care, bye bye! Salute!
Yeah that's how you get chronic depression.