Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 10
 This thing is JUNK! December 6, 2007
J. Ruppel (Milwaukee, WI)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Like many other reviewers, I also love KitchenAid products, however, this one is a failure. I was very excited to receive it as a gift, so I overzealously prepared meat (finely ground), mushroom, and cheese stuffings for the raviolis. I went to roll them out, and they burst right open! The cheese worked the best, because it was so soft, but even with those less than half of them were useable. I was so mad, because it took a lot of effort to also make the pasta and roll it all out, just to have this ravioli maker mutilate it! I hate the thing, and I will be returning it as soon as I'm able to get back to the store where it was purchased. I would recommend against this product - it is purely frustrating!!
 Makes a great product September 21, 2007
J. Costanza (Texas)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am pleased with the ravioli attachment but did not realize that it is manual. I think I could have purchased another less expensive product to perform the same function.
Kitchen not aided August 31, 2007
Malcolm L. Sizer (Alpharetta, GA USA)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This product is not as advertised... firstly you have to buy the roller which is not disclosed at purchase time... secondly, it is a manual machine, all it does is hang off the mixer, so you just as well nail it to the wall... it, and the roller, can't be washed, so it is unhygenic. But most importantly it doesn't work.
Terrible product June 8, 2007
Karen Janata (Greeley, Colorado)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I received the ravioli maker for Christmas along with the Kitchenaid mixer and pasta maker. I finally got around to using the ravioli maker yesterday. Unlike the pasta maker which works beautifully, the ravioli maker is terrible. First, it is not electric like the pasta maker. Attaching it to the mixer serves no purpose except to anchor it to something. Each piece of pasta needs to be exactly the correct size as the hopper head. The raviolis turn out very small with little filling. I was able to salvage half of what I made. I froze them so I have not used them yet. I question whether they will open up when boiling.
I am very disappointed that Kitchenaid would make this product.
Kitchen Aid should be Ashamed April 21, 2007
guest (Dallas, TX)
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
I stumbled across a good meat ravioli recipe in the Joy of Cooking book. First time I made ravioli, and it came out fantastic; however, doing it all by hand (rolling and stuffing) is time consuming. Went out and purchased the KitchenAid Pasta Roller attachment, and was glad that I did.
Read the reviews here about the KitchenAid Ravioli Maker Attachment and was concerned why the reviews were so lop-sided (either really great, or really bad, no middle)? It caused me to find a local store that had a good return policy, in case I agreed with the negative reviews. I checked all my usual places: Macy's, Sams, Sears, JCPenny, WalMart, BedBath&Beyond, and William&Sonoma in the Dallas area. Only William&Sonoma had it in stock!
Took the KitchenAid Ravioli Maker home, and tried it out. Most of the ravioli's were torn, because I was using too thin of a setting on the Pasta Roller (Joy of Cooking recommends thinest setting - No. 8, KitchenAid recommends much thicker setting No. 5). I tried it again using the pasta roller's thicker No. 5 setting. This time, there weren't any tears; however, many of the ravioli's edges didn't seal properly. I manually had to seal most of the ravioli using a pastry bush, water, and finger pressure. When I cooked them, many of the seals opened, and spilled their contents into the cooking vessel. The ones that didn't open while cooking, didn't taste as good as the ones I had made by hand, because the pasta was much thicker.
I made another batch, with the exception of weting the interior surface of one side of the pasta sheet prior to rolling the Ravioli Maker. This time, more ravioli were sealed, but I still had to press close almost half. When I cooked the batch, there were still some that opened.
I might know why most stores that carry the KitchenAid - Pasta Roller Attachment DO NOT stock the Ravioli Maker Attachment. I'm speculating from my experience, and most of the reviews here, that stores that would stock the KitchenAid Ravioli Maker Attachment probably would have most of them returned. Why bother stocking something that has a high probability of being returned?
Does KitchenAid have a Quality Control Department? If so, their Quality Quality Engineer and Product Manager should be forced to use the product. Quality Control should be more than making sure the thing doesn't fall apart, it should be about making sure the thing safely and reliably does what it is supposed to do
When I returned the KitchenAid Ravioli Maker, I purchased a "Pastry Crimper/Sealer" for about $12, tried it out, and it worked first time, every time.
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