For convenience, yes, industrialized pasta is great.
In my case, maybe it has to do with my Brazilian origins... Cooking is not only "prepare the food to be eaten" it's some sort of "gesture of love", you're "giving yourself", dedicating your time and energy to prepare something for your family or friends (or even yourself).
Of course, there are wonderful brands of pasta that can easily be found in all supermarkets but NONE of them compares to the real home made pasta.
Days ago I made ravioli for dinner. (Literally made the ravioli). As Brazil has a super strong bond with the Italian culture, I forgot the times i made homemade pasta since my wedding. I LOVE making pasta, it's not a chore for me, it's actually relaxing (specially if I'm a bit pissed off and needing to strangle somebody, so I can release the energy on the dough LOL)
I'm just waiting for the fall or winter to make homemade capeletti.
And I have a friend that lives in Italy and she's planning to visit me as soon as this covid thing ends, she already said she's going to bring all sorts of pasta accessories, like chitarra, bicicleta, stamps, etc.
And.... making pasta isn't that hassle or too complicated. Once you really dominate the skills, you can make the dough in less than a minute using the FP and "work" the dough using the roller (in my case Kitchenaid) in under 3 minutes and ready to cut (a few seconds)
When I was a child and still learning with my mom how to make pasta, by the end the whole kitchen was a mess. Nowadays, I can literally (actually that's what I do because my kitchen is almost microscopic) do everything on the top of a portable dishwasher and when I'm done there's almost nothing left to cleanup.
And in this same kitchen once i made homemade pasta for 27 guests.
Might have to make some pasta with it someday-anyone know about making pasta with this machine or similar ?
