noodle cutter

Cafe Society
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i’m reaching way out here. technically this question has an answer even though it is far from earth shattering.

here goes.

i’m the cook of the house (my wife warms) and i was all set to make a pre-turkey day warm-up batch of my turkey & noodles. i make my own noodle but i seem to have lost my noodle cutter during my last move.

i can’t find an old style handheld noodle cutter anywhere. most people i ask just look at me like i’m crazy.

i’m currently in the booming metropolis known as tulsa :smack: . so, is there maybe a nudge in the right direction to find one…or just confirmation that there are no more noodle cutters. home made noodles are extinct and have been replaced by ramen :frowning: :eek:

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My hand-cranked pasta maker has a built-in noodle cutting attachment… is that kind of what you’re referring to?

3

Do you mean a pasta wheel?

4

sorry, no.

it looks kind of like a cheese slicer or a pizza docker except at the business end it has what look sort of like 6-8 little pizza cutter wheels. Then there’s a little guard that goes over those cutters. The idea is that when you roll this cutter over a piece of rolled out dough it cuts 5 or so noodles.

5

I just use a knife. Flour the noodles well and roll into a a cigar shape. Get a very sharp knife and cut them into strips and then unroll them again. I could never find a noodle cutter that gave me wide enough noodles for what I liked.

6

I think my folks have one of those, but they never really used it. We used to play with it now and then when we were kids.

7

I think this is what you’re looking for.

8

my brother and i would do the same thing with grandmas cutter. then she’d whoop our cheeks rosy. now that i’m the one running the kitchen and have a young 'un i am starting to see her side of things.

it seems people vaguely remember these cutters but can’t proove that they still exist :rolleyes:

9

Try here http://www.kitchenfantasy.com/Pasta.htm
If they don’t have it they will find it for you.

10

wow! pretty damn close. it seems a bit girly (sorry girls) and it is missing the guard that keeps the noodles from wrapping around the cutter…but it would work for the huge volume of noodles i’m making.

so…unless there’s an exact match before morning, i’m placing an order to taget

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To keep the noodles from sticking/wrapping you can either roll it in olive oil, or in flour proir to cutting. You’ll only need the tips of the cutters coated. Just see which one works better for you.

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Let’s give the Cafe Society people a whack at it, since it’s about cooking.

Moved.

samclem GQ moderator

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ok, just to keep it going… i found a picture of an old abused noodle cutter on ebay.

i don’t think i’m going to get this one but this is exactly what i did have and am looking for.

and no that one is not mine. i think i left mine in my last house which was in new orleans. chances are it’s not there anymore (house, cutter, or street)

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I too use a knife. But instead of rolling I fold the dough loosely, then cut with a VERY sharp meat cleaver. (Dull knives tear and smush.) Sometimes if I’m bored I sit in front of the TV and roll little odd sized noodles out between my hands. They’re variably lumpy and have pointy ends. They serve up purty that way.