Fantes Cavatelli Maker Machine for Authentic Italian Pasta, The Italian Market Original since 1906

Works better than expected as I wasn’t expecting much to be honest. I got excellent results on my 1st attempt and had 0 issues. So I am not sure what more I could ask for much faster than doing it by hand. Highly recommend if like little curly pasta or gnocchi.

My grandchildren wanted to learn how to make homemade pasta so for one of our cooking classes I purchased this to make cavatelli’s. We got done so fast and everything was so delicious taste just like Nonna’s🥰. This is also a nice sturdy piece great value for the money. The quality is good and very easy to use for the grandchildren. Also stores very well.

I was excited to try this Cavatelli maker, but my experience was disappointing. When I first tried to use it, the crank was stripped and it wouldn't work at all. After some inspection, I realized that the crank was installed backwards, which prevented it from turning. Once I fixed that, I could use it for a short time, but the part that shapes the pasta started squeezing the dough rather than forming it into proper shapes. After about five minutes of use, the mechanism somehow got stripped, even though I hadn't been using it for very long. I had high hopes for this product, but sadly, it didn't live up to expectations.

Fabulous it is brilliant.I have a huge passion for all things Italian and making food authentically is part of it. There is a reason pasta making has been taught for generations in Italy. I feel like I am cheating with this tool.So worth it and it can be a lot of fun with friends and family!You definitely don’t want a robot for this one!

Not necessarily the easiest device I've ever used in the kitchen, but having experimented with our dough a little bit, we've definitely gotten it to make cavatelli! I returned a CucinaPro cavatelli maker that came with plastic rollers, which the dough stuck to terribly. Haven't had any issues with the dough sticking to the real wood rollers on this one!Unfortunately, no matter what we do, the cavatelli are coming out a bit tough; hopefully a bit more experimentation will yield some that are a bit more tender. So far, a medium-firm dough seems to work the best- too firm and they don't curl over nicely; too soft and they don't separate completely and end up sticking together and getting clumpy.Coating your dough snake in semolina seems to help the cavatelli drop off when they're made. We have had a few stick to the rotating metal bits if we don't coat the dough in semolina, and if they go all the way around they can gum up the rollers a bit, but they're pretty easy to peel back out.Anyway; this cavatelli maker works far better than the CucinaPro did, and we will definitely be keeping it! Once we got the dough and the rhythm down, we've had a blast using it, and it's actually way faster than rolling out and cutting pasta dough, so it's a great way to have homemade pasta on a weeknight when we don't have as much time to cook.

The machine came with a recipe for ricotta pasta and a mushroom thyme sauce. Made them both tonight and they were excellent. The only tweak I would recommend is the machine instructions recommend using a half inch in diameter rope of pasta to feed into the machine. This would cause the machine to spread the pasta into the sides and gum up the works. I’d recommend using a smaller sized flat rope starting at about maybe 3/8 of an inch and flattening it out before you feed it into the machine.This would give the machine space to spread the pasta across the blade without gathering up into the sides. And of course, you flour the hell out of everything to make sure nothing sticks. Would definitely recommend this to another pasta enthusiast.

After reading a number of negative reviews about this product, I was a little hesitant about purchasing it. However, I did buy it and I am glad I did. My cavatelli came out perfect on the first try. As others have commented, I think a lot may have to do with the consistency of the pasta dough: it needs to be firm and not sticky. Here is my recipe - which worked:1 1/2 cups semolina pasta flour1 3/4 cups 00 grade pasta flour1/4 tsp salt1 cup waterThe mixture was needed until completely smooth (about 10 minutes), covered in plastic wrap and set to rest for 1/2 hour. The mass was then cut into 16 pieces. Each piece was rolled into a log about an index finger thick, dusted with flour and then put through the machine. While I worked on one log, I covered the rest of the dough up in plastic wrap so it would not dry up. This made about 5 - 6 hearty portions of cavatelli.Sometimes some of the dough did get a little clogged in the machine, but I found this happened when the log was too large in diameter or if the log became off-center as it was being rolled into the machine. When it did get clogged, I had no problems removing the dough and re-rolling it into another log. Keeping the dough log centered and the right size avoided this problem.Some other reviewers commented that the nut on the handle comes off. I find that it does come loose, but it seems that is by design since you have to remove the handle to fit the machine in its box. I just retighten the nut occasionally as I am cranking out the cavatelli. This is something to be aware of.I am hoping that this cavatelli maker services me well in the future.

Price point is nice, however the nut that comes to hood the handle onto the crank shaft will not stay on, you have to re tighten every 45 seconds of use. I wish that were an exaggeration but it’s not. Very frustrating. Used recently for an event, the pasta produced is great, shape is on point and all that but I think the busted knuckles from the handle loosening pretty much have made me decide on not really enjoying this product.