At the time, only my friend from college, Rosie, mentioned Marcato’s Atlas 150 Pasta Machine. She called it one of her and her husband’s “most cherished” wedding gifts. After sitting down with Rosie to find out why, I’m considering putting it on my registry for my upcoming fall wedding.
What You Should Know About the Marcato Atlas 150 Pasta Machine
Founded in 1930, Marcato is a 95-year-old Italian brand known for its pasta makers, though it also offers attachments and accessories, along with cookie presses. The hand-cranked tabletop pasta machine is “world famous,” according to the brand, and makes for an incredible wedding gift for pasta lovers.
“One of our friends who got married a year before we did said it was the best thing they ever got,” says Rosie, who immediately added it to her own registry. It makes sense: The machine can produce three different pasta shapes (fettuccine, lasagna, and tagliolini) with 10 different thickness options each (as thin as a mere 0.6 millimeters up to 4.8 millimeters). You can buy 11 separate attachments to make spaghetti, linguine, ravioli, and more.
It’s easy to get started, too: “The instructions were super straightforward … I feel like we were able to just kind of get right into it and start making pasta,” Rosie says. Rosie and her husband often love to use it to make ravioli, even crafting Christmas tree-shaped ravioli using a green spinach dough with her family around the holidays.
While it’s not dishwasher-safe, “it’s so easy to clean, mostly because the dough isn’t tacky, like a bread dough or a pancake batter,” she adds, calling it “a really quick rinse kind of clean.”
At $87.30, this pasta maker is not only a fun item to add to a registry, but it’s also a pretty affordable wedding gift. I asked Rosie if it’s worth buying one for a pasta-loving couple, even if it’s not on their registry. She says: “It is a little taboo to get stuff that’s not on the list, but I feel like that’s not a huge stretch. It’s a fun tool. I think it would be a good surprise for people.”