KitchenAid refers to this handy attachment as a pasta press, and the design is similar to a pasta extruder. This means that rather than rolling your pasta dough into sheets and then cutting it into flat shapes like linguini or fettuccini, the dough gets pushed through one of six included discs to create various shapes. With this attachment, you’ll be able to make fresh spaghetti, bucatini, fusilli, rigatoni, small macaroni, and large macaroni. Extruded pasta usually has a rougher exterior texture than you might be used to, so they naturally thicken sauces. A wire at the bottom of the press lets you cut your pasta to your desired length.
