Best Pasta Makers for Restaurant-Worthy Noodles at Home (2025)

Switching between the roller and the two included cutters (fettuccine and tagliolini) isn’t automatic, but it’s simple thanks to easy-to-follow instructions that spell out exactly how to slide each out of and into place. If you want to create additional pasta shapes, the brand sells other cutters separately.

What we’d leave

According to our testers, you may want to pay attention to the dough recipe you’re using with this machine, as drier recipes may fare better. “When we tested higher hydration doughs, we found that the cutter couldn’t slice the strands all the way through, but did so without issue at a lower hydration level,” one tester said. “To be fair, properly made pasta dough shouldn’t be sticky.”

After you ultimately cut your fresh pasta and enjoy your delicious meal, just know that your cleanup experience might not be quite as delightful. In order to avoid rusting, you can’t care for the Atlas 150 with water. While the instructions nicely spell out how to disassemble the machine, you’re still going to have to wait until it fully dries and only use a small brush to scrape away dough remnants. For a greasy machine, oil-absorbent paper can help, too.

The best electric pasta extruder: Philips 7000 Series

If you’re someone who likes rigatoni or bucatini, or another shape of pasta that a pasta roller machine won’t be able to manage, an extruder is up your alley—and we found the Philips 7000 to be the best we tried. In the same vein as a Play-Doh hair salon toy, an extruder works by using an auger tool to push the dough through one of the interchangeable shaping disks. While this machine is heavier than most other manual and electric models we tried, it also mixes the dough for you in its top-loaded container, thereby minimizing the mess on your countertop (and removing a labor-intensive cooking step for you).

What we love

Put simply, the machine is easy to use. After pouring in your dough ingredients, it does the kneading for you, then displays a countdown clock letting you know when you can expect the pasta to start moving through the shaping disc in the front. What we love most, though, is the quality of pasta it creates. As one tester said, “almost all of the penne came out intact, unlike any of the other extruders, which often delivered broken pasta.” This nod of approval was true for all the shapes (and there’s a welcome wealth of variety here) that the Philips can create.

Cleaning up was also a high note with the Philips, with the removable parts being dishwasher-safe. That’s a notable departure from most of the manual and electric pasta rollers we tried, which can only be wiped clean.

What we’d leave

One point of differentiation between this extruder and others is that the Philips doesn’t have an automatic pasta-cutting feature, meaning you need to stand by the machine throughout the entire process. That said, our tester said the manual cutting tool worked really well, noting that “the included plastic cutter did a surprisingly efficient job portioning out the pasta when we tested its ability to make both spaghetti and tube-shaped noodles.”

Also worth considering: While pasta rollers (manual and electric) come in different sizes, they’re typically not huge appliances. Not so with the Philips, although this is nearly universal for extruders. Just make sure you have the kitchen space (and arm muscle) to house and maneuver it.

The best pasta maker stand mixer attachment: KitchenAid 3-Piece Pasta Roller & Cutter Attachment Set

If you already own a KitchenAid Stand Mixer, this pasta roller and cutter attachment set is a smart buy. The set comes as three separate attachments—a roller and two cutters—that take up very little space. And it’s easy to set up and use. When I tried it, I had a fresh pasta dinner on the table in just over an hour, including the time required to make the dough.

What we love

I found this pasta maker just as easy to use as the Atlasmotor (if not easier). Both electric machines provide the benefit of not needing to juggle three hands’ worth of work that’s required to feed dough through the top of the roller, hand crank it, and catch the rolled-out sheet. What I like about the KitchenAid is how compact it is, since there are just three detachable pieces of the same size.

After making a simple dough that required 30 minutes of resting after mixing and kneading, I was able to make a pasta dinner within another 30 minutes. I started boiling my water the same time I began using the roller attachment. (Bonus: There are eight thickness settings.) Switching to a cutter attachment took less than a minute, and felt like I instantly—and pretty effortlessly—had twirls of fresh strands ready to cook.