KitchenAid KRAV – Ravioli Maker attachment for Artisan 5KSM125,5KSM150, and More

First, let me say that I have been making home made ravioli every New Years of my adult life. First with my grandmother, then I personally took over the tradition about 20 years ago. I normally have eager (hungry) family and friends around waiting to jump in and help me prepare the New Years Eve meal. Well, with my grandmother in her 90’s, my parents not medically capable of standing on their feet for hours at a time now, I was facing New Years Eve meal preparation alone! The thought of doing all of that alone, struck fear in my heart! I did some research and found this attachment was available for the KitchenAid. So, a professional 600 series kitchenAid was ordered along with this attachment. Thank you Amazon for your same day delivery service.Let me start out by saying that this review could have gone either way. Like many other reviewers, I was ready to throw this attachment in the garbage about halfway through my first attempted use! Keep in mind, I have used an atlas to roll out my dough for years so I have a good feel for dough for machine preparation. I cannot imagine attempting to use this attachment having had zero experience in dough for machine preparation. I would recommend that anyone who purchases this attachment not only read the instructions, TWICE! I also recommend you going to youtube and watching videos on it’s use. After about an hour of learning, and half a batch of dough, I finally got the feel for the proper way to use this attachment. Up to that point, I was certain that I could have prepared them the old fashion way much more quickly. However, when I had my first successful batch run through the machine, I was convinced that I could have never made three dozen ravioli the old fashioned way in just a few minutes. I pushed on and was able to successfully make over 150 ravioli in the next hour. I could have never done that with a press and rolling pin!So, let me share a few things that any person attempting to use this attachment needs to know:1) Do not roll the dough any thinner than a 3 on your kitchenAid Pasta Roller – This attachment stretches the dough as it pulls it through and if you go any thinner, your dough will certainly tear.2) Do not attempt to use overly wet (sticky) dough with this attachment. If it has a hard time making it through your KitchenAid Pasta Roller, it will be impossible to make it through this attachment. If it is too dry, it will crack and break using this attachment, You need to make certain that the dough easily goes through the Pasta Roller Attachment.3) I saw several written and even video recommendations for making all of the dough first and storing it for use in this attachment. I tried many of them and what I found worked best for me was prepare the dough with the pasta roller, remove the pasta roller and mount this attachment, use the freshly prepared dough (put a little flour on both sides before use) to make a batch of ravioli.4) Depending on your filling, mine was a meat and spinach filling, given the size of the ravioli produced by this machine, the filling would have never made it into the dough. I ground the filling using the smallest die available with my (same day delivered) KitchenAid grinder. The second thing that I learned was the fact that you cannot assume that your filling will just drop into place as you turn the crank, you literally have to go slow and push the filling into each and every ravioli being careful not to over stuff them and tear the ravioli. Yes, this is a tedious task when using thicker fillings.5) Don’t assume that your dough will feed through this attachment, even though it has rollers on both sides, save yourself a lot of frustration and manually push the dough in on both sides before you turn the handle.I hope that this saves a few KitchenAid Ravioli attachments from the same fate that many others have suffered due to dissatisfied owners. This is a wonderful attachment when used properly. Please be patient and enjoy your new ravioli maker. It was a sound investment if you have to make ravioli all by yourself!

This is a review of (primarily) the seller, always quality, not the item. I always try to set out to buy the best. In this case, I wanted the Kitchenaid Pasta accessories and paid the full price to buy OEM. I was expecting a new, unopened item, securely packaged and shipped in a sturdy box. What I received was indeed a Kitchenaid set but it appears to be used, with fingerprints all over the chrome finish of all 3 pieces and it was shoved into a padded envelope for shipping. Due to the weight of the item, the box arrived with crushed corners. This was to be given as a Christmas present to accompany a new Kitchenaid stand mixer and this is hardly gift quality. All this and full price too! Bah Humbug! I’m very disappointed with this seller. The items in the set appear to be sturdy and heavy. I’ll assume durability is fine, there is no assembly and it should be no more difficult to clean than my 30 year old manual pasta roller.

Great stuff… 100% better than manual. Just see the picture result. Im so glad i got all d attachment of kitchenaid. Totally happy with everything…😚😚😚

I have never made fresh pasta before, but did so last night, and it was unbelievably easy and satisfying with this pasta attachment!Making pasta dough turned out to be very quick (using a simple recipe from the BBC Good Food website, using 5oz / 140g 00 flour, one whole egg and one egg yolk – although there are several recipes in the instructions themselves, which I didn’t read..!). I made the sauce while the pasta dough briefly rested in clingfilm in the fridge, and then it was ready to roll out.You slot the roller attachment into place on your KitchenAid stand mixer, couple of twists to screw it into place, flick it to speed 2 , and you’re ready to feed the dough through it. I rolled the dough in 4 separate go’s, otherwise it would get too long to handle. The next trick is to keep folding the dough and rolling it through the widest two settings to make it silky smooth and into a rectangle shape. I can see that with a hand cranked pasta roller this would be a real pain to do, and you’d most likely need someone’s help to either feed the pasta dough through, or to hold the roller down and crank the handle. With the KitchenAid attachment the roller stays firmly in place, and constantly rolls automatically so you just have to drape the dough through and collect it with your other hand. I can’t explain how easy this was.The next stage is to crank the rollers thinner and thinner and roll the dough through each setting. To do this you don’t even have to stop the machine – you just gently pull the nob and turn it to the next position. I stopped rolling at setting 6 (of 8) to make tagliatelle which worked well. Setting 7 was a little thin (but would be perfect for ravioli).The final step is to hang onto your sheet, change the rollers (which is simple and fiddle-free) to the tagliatelle cutter. Then simply feed the sheet through one last time. Out came strands of fresh home made pasta, like magic. So satisfying to watch.I hung the pasta out to dry on the KitchenAid drier (great product) but I understand it’s equally find to put it in little piles. I found the TINIEST bit of flour over the strands was useful to stop them sticking to each other. Then literally 4 minutes in boiling water, and it was ready to eat.The results were great. The pasta was tastier and chewier than either dried or the fresh stuff you can buy in supermarkets. I will definitely be doing this again, and look forward to trying different colours and flavours of dough.Looking back, I realise this review is more about the dough, but perhaps that’s the beauty of the KitchenAid attachment – it works so well and easily that there’s not much to say about it!Wonderful bit of kit, quality product, and so easy to make some poncey home made pasta to make you feel smug.

This is an expensive but well-made attachment for KitchenAid mixers. I’ve been making pasta at home for several years. It’s never been easier that now. The KitchenAid takes all the effort out of rolling and speeds up the whole process.

Maybe it’s just me, but I find this attachment really difficult to work with. The dough has to be the perfect consistency to not stick to the attachment, and even then it comes out in ribbons instead of sheets. Plus, it was horribly expensive.

What a brilliant piece of equipment this is. We’d suffered using the hand held pasta machine, and having to replace it on a regular basis, but this, well what can one say, it is absolutely brilliant. It’s efficient, it’s easy to use, easy to clean etc etc etc.

works well as described.I have a manual one for pasta making, it does a difference having both arm free to focus on the pasta itself.It is three attachment for different pastas not one as indicated on the main image.