Making pasta by hand is fun and on a basic level, especially if you are making egg-based doughs and rolling out by hand, all you will need is a wooden board, rolling pin, bench scraper and a knife or pastry cutter. Then there are a host of other fun tools which you can use - you can check out my pasta tool YouTube video to see how I use them.
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Pasta Making Equipment
Pasta Boards
If you are a beginner or more advanced, a decent sized board is really important. The wooden board and pin help create texture in your dough to add to the mouthfeel and to pick up the sauce. The wooden board also helps absorb the humidity from the dough making it much easier to work with and it also helps avoid using too much flour.
N.B. Anything over 100cm cannot be shipped via courier or post abroad!
Multilayer Birch Wood Pastry Board - 100x60cm
Pasta Board Covers
Your pasta board should be one of your most important pasta-making tools and as such be very well cared for. This means keeping it dust free, flour-eating insect free and covered. If you aren’t a dab hand with a sewing machine, these board covers are perfect. Make sure the cover is slightly larger than your board. While these are my picks, you can choose any one you see fit. Cotton is always preferable to a synthetic material though.
Cotton case for pasta board - 120x60cm
Case for pastry board in cotton-linen with Blue Romagna prints - 130x65cm
Case for pastry board in cotton-linen with Green Romagna prints - 100x60cm
Rolling Pin
These come in all sizes but a good beginner-intermediate length pin would be about 80cm. You can select the type of wood you want – cherry tends to be lighter and easier to work with if you have small hands and don’t have much strength in your arms. Other ‘lighter’ options are Walnut and Iroko (teak) also because their diameter is slightly smaller than the beech option.
Rolling pin in iroko tree wood for fresh homemade pasta - 80cm
Professional rolling pin in beech tree wood for fresh homemade pasta - 80cm
Professional rolling pin in beech tree wood for fresh homemade pasta - 90cm
Rolling pin in walnut tree wood for fresh homemade pasta - 100cm