After reading this cookbook, I definitely have pasta machine envy. Vaserfirer gives detailed instructions on how to use the three main types of pasta machines, along with simple-to-follow recipes for different pastas. There are also recipes for finished dishes, from ragu to cannoli. The photography is appealing--it'll make you feel like you're in an old-world Italian restaurant kitchen. I could have used more pictures (I like a one-to-one ratio of photo to recipe), but overall this will inspire home cooks to dust off that pasta machine in the cupboard and give it a try.

This is my first pasta making book, and I am wowed! Not only does it help you figure out the mechanics, and the dough, but also gives you recipes for prepared meals. So if you want to skip the noodle making you can just use store bought for the recipes. This is a keeper.

   What did I like? All around book... so you can prepare and make pasta. Use kitchen aid attachments, or other various tools sold on Amazon. Wealth of info here but all inclusive. I would love to make my own pasta. Step by step, picture by picture of making dough was helpful. Different recipes for different equipment. Just amazing. Then the recipes...wow. I’m hooked.

   Would I recommend or buy? This is going on my wish list! I feel like even if you don’t make the pasta from scratch the recipes still add value. I’ve never seen a pasta making book before but I love that it includes pretty much every style, and loads of dough recipes. The recipes look amazing. If your into dough making, then this book is a keeper.

   I received a copy to read and offer an opinion. I loved it! Five stars!

I tried on three devices I can use and none would open this book so sorry I cannot make a genuine review.

I requested a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review but I have yet to hear if I was approved.  I am reviewing the book anyway on Goodreads and Facebook as I already own/have read the book.														
														
I live in two different cities and well, continents, due to family/hubby's work for the government, so I had read and reviewed this book for the North American crowd, so am sharing with the U.K. crowd as I have cooked my way from cover to cover in this cookbook! (Funnily enough, I live in London, ON Canada and London, UK!)														

My husband would eat spaghetti and meatballs every single day if he could - and often does as we spend a lot of time apart due to him working in two different countries. I tend to buy most of my pasta fresh from the market as I don't have a pasta machine/arm to roll it out with but if I were to make it. this is the book I would use. Adding something savoury like miso to noodles is more up my alley as I am more of an Asian vs. Italian noodle kind of gal. (And I have yet to figure out why the Brits are obsessed with "spag-bol" ..can someone explain that to me? )

A great way to learn how to make pasta or improve your skills, for sure - the book is well written and applicable to readers and cooks of all levels.

This is a book for the pasta lovers out there, especially if one is a bit keen on making your own. This book breaks it down how to make pasta, and it has also various pasta recipes in general, so you can actually make a dish out of your freshly made pasta.

I never knew that making pasta was so work intensive. This book breaks everything down and even gives you recipes. Who would have thought that you would need special tips for your pasta maker to make types of pasta that I didn't know existed. I definitely recommend this cookbook and will be buying my own copy... along with all the special gizmos.

I have an extruder and am terrible at motivating myself to use it. But this book really inspired me to try out some new recipes. I appreciated having some guidance and feel better versed in my equipment. Beautiful photos and lots of helpful details! I wish there were some more gluten free pasta options, because they have become so popular at the store. i would love to learn how to utilize various types of flour with the extruder for healthier alternatives. But thats probably better suited to a whole new book!!!

Oh, I love pasta and hopefully one day I can master how to make them from scratch (so I don't have to keep buying Barilla from my grocery store)! The book has gorgeous photography and such yummy recipes. It looks very accessible to a beginner cook.

This is a gorgeous and informational book.

What I loved: It goes into great detail about the three classic types of pasta makers (sheet rollers, extruders, and the ones for those little pasta shapes that I will never make or eat because they look like grubs to me, LOL) with lots of recipes for pasta and all the info you need for classic pasta making. I love the gorgeous color photos of pasta making and the creative applications like making the striped beet pasta. There's a variety of recipes for doughs, fillings and then recipes to put it all together.

What I would have liked added: There is only one recipe for a gluten free pasta and that's a chickpea pasta for sheet rolling. I know you can make good gluten free pasta because my kids and I do it often, and we use a variety of flours (my 13 y/o son loves using the sheet roller and my 8 y/o daughter loves hand mixing, rolling and cutting doughs with add-ins like ramps). Also, I have a big old plastic electronic pasta machine that I picked up at an antique store that I've used for years but I guess this isn't an authentic enough sort because the book only covers the high end metal sort of machines and rollers like the KitchenAid attachment or the professional metal dies. We also have a sheet roller and use that, but we honestly use the big plastic beast more often because o all of its dies. There aren't many photos of the recipes for pasta dishes themselves after the instructional portion and I'd have loved more. I also would really appreciate nutritional information for the recipes and more recipes for those on special diets since that is one advantage of making homemade pasta, that you can make your own gluten free, vegan, low-carb, etc. pastas right to your tastes. This is really designed just for those who want to make fairly traditional pasta with traditional tools for traditional dishes -- but it does that exceptionally well.

All in all, I really enjoyed the book even though I'll have to adapt it for my machines and ingredients. It was a fun, beautiful and inspiring read.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

There is so much information packed into this book.  The book starts off with a very informative introduction to pasta, then moves into recipes for so many different noodles using two different methods, and finishes with some mouthwatering recipes using the noodles.

Having just recently jumped into making my own pasta and really enjoying the process, I was excited to review this book! The beautifully shot color photos made me want to try all the pastas! If you want to make pasta on a regular basis, I highly recommend an electric pasta maker or the attachment(s) for a stand mixer unless you have a helper who can crank for you. This allows for easier dough/noodle handling since you'll have two free hands. The book begins by discussing the 3 types of pasta machines - sheeter, extruder and cavatelli. - and moves into pasta shapes and names. I was very happy to see that the recipe ingredient amounts are specified both by volume and weight. This is a huge pet peeve of mine with cookbooks. Weights are so much more accurate! There are so many different dough recipes to choose from, including a sourdough noodle recipe. So many have sourdough starters going right now and sourdough pasta is yummy! This was my first foray into pasta making as I was looking for more ways to use up my sourdough discard. I appreciated that the recipes include helpful notes such as which dry well and notes about color and flavor to be expected. Recipes are divided by which pasta machine you'll use to shape the pasta which is helpful if you don't have all the options on hand. Clear instructions, with photos, are included on the use of each machine. In addition to the pasta dough recipes, there are recipes for a variety of fillings and sauces as well as recipes that include your fresh pasta. The only negative for me is that many of the dough recipes include eggs and I don't consume eggs. I'd have to play around with various egg replacers to see what would work. I didn't expect many of the full dish recipes to be ones I'd try due to expected animal ingredient content and that proved true. If you're vegan, this would be one to borrow from the library rather than buy.

Thanks to Quarto Publishing Group – Harvard Common Press and NetGalley for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for my honest review.

The Ultimate Pasta Machine Cookbook by Lucy Vaserfirer is a reasonably comprehensive cookbook that gives directions for using a sheeter pasta machine, Extruder Pasta Machine and Cavatelli maker. There are foundation doughs for each machine and recipes to go along with each type of machine. 

You will also find a clear explanation of ingredients and how to use them along with pasta making tools to use. 

Throughout the cookbook are numerous color photos illustrating cooking techniques and recipes.

Some of the recipes you'll find include:

Beef Straganoff with Egg Noodles
Shoyu Ramen
Grano Arso Caratelli with Sundried Tomato Sauce
Semolina Crackers

Recommend.

Review written after downloading a galley from NetGalley.

When life for the entire universe and planet turns on its end and like everyone else you "have nothing to do" while your place of work is closed and you are continuing to be in #COVID19 #socialisolation,  superspeed readers like me can read 250+ pages/hour, so yes, I have read the book … and many more today. And it is way too hot to go outside, so why not sit in from of the blasting a/c and read and review books??  BTW - stay home and save lives!!!!!!!! No tan is worth dying for.

I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.  

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

At last, a cookbook about pasta-making that covers all kinds of pasta machines—both manual and electric, and also stand-mixer pasta attachments—and that delivers foolproof recipes sure to make you an expert noodle master in no time!

Homemade pasta is easy, fast, and fun. It tastes better than boxed pastas from the store. And, while-store-bought pastas do indeed come in a variety of shapes, they all have basically one bland and unexciting flavour; by contrast, as this wide-ranging and deliciously inventive book shows, making pasta by hand at home lets you create and enjoy dozens and dozens of different flavors of noodles.

In her previous books—on such subjects as searing, marinating, and cast-iron cooking—chef, cooking teacher, and food blogger Lucy Vaserfirer has earned a reputation for expertly and gently translating the methods of master chefs into simple-to-follow, step-by-step instructions that let home cooks cook like the pros. Here, Lucy does the same for pasta-making, showing you how easy it is to use a sheeter, extruder, and cavatelli maker of any type, manual or electric, to create tasty pastas that will please everyone from grown-up gourmands to picky kids who want pasta at nearly every meal.

Lucy shares in these pages terrific purees that you can make, using a blender or a mixing bowl, that you then can turn into all sorts of flavoured kinds of pasta, from the familiar tomato or spinach pastas to noodles flavoured with herbs like basil or chives, spices like pepper or saffron, and other flavours, such as beet, sweet potato, corn, and even, surprisingly enough, chocolate. She teaches you how to make every kind of pasta shape with your pasta machine, including ones you can't find in stores. She includes durum and semolina pastas, the most common kinds, as well as buckwheat and ancient-grain pastas. She even shows how to make Asian noodles, such as udon, soba, and ramen, with your pasta machine. There are recipes, too, for fillings for ravioli, tortellini, and other stuffed pastas, as well as a feast of sauces for finished pasta dishes.

Whether you are a first-time owner of a pasta maker or a seasoned pro looking for exciting new ideas, this book has more than 100 splendid recipes, plus loads of clever tips and tricks, that will make you love your pasta machine and use it often.

I love making pasta - but I don't have a machine so it is difficult to roll out thinly enough. This makes me want to buy the pasta arm for my KitchenAid stand mixer. I love the idea of putting flavours into the pasta itself - I cannot wait to add some miso to some noodles as I am more of an Asian noodle girl than a red sauce like my husband is. (He would have spaghetti and meatballs every day if I let him!

A great little book for pasta lovers everywhere - As always, I try to find a reason to not rate with stars as I love emojis (outside of their incessant use by "🙏-ed Social Influencer Millennials/#BachelorNation survivors/Tik-Tok and YouTube  Millionaires/etc. " on Instagram and Twitter... Get a real job, people!) so let's give it 🍜🍜🍜🍜

I typed a pasta recipe  and it worked Did work out, I did need to add more flour but I may have guessed the measurements wrong Since they were in oz not cups.

It's a great book if you want to make your own pasta from scratch. This book teaches you a few basic pasta and noodles recipes, shows you the how to step-by-step with photos, explains how to use three different pasta machines (Sheeter, extruder and cavatelli pasta machine) and it also gives you tips on how to storage, cook, serve your pasta, and at the end there are some sauce recipes and some yummy dishes you can make using you fresh made pasta. I got a pasta machine and I haven't used it but I'll follow this book and hopefully I can learn how to make my own pasta. This book is very useful and very well done and organized. Before trying to make the recipes, read the beginning of the book because that's where all the tips and informations are. 

I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

So much more than pasta recipe book. This is a comprehensive guide on how to make your own pasta from scratch using three different machines available.

I particularly enjoyed the recipes at the end of the book, showing you what mouthwatering meals you can make with your finished fresh pasta.

At times I found this book overwhelming, due to the sheer range of possibilities, but the more I read the more I realised that everything was possible if you followed the recipe and learnt as you went.

I'm off to try a basic egg pasta, it's just too tempting not to.