Pasta making attachment to a multi-purpose kitchen machine

摘要

A pasta-making attachment for a multi-purpose kitchen machine, the attachment being configured to utilise selected components of a meat-grinding attachment configured for the same machine, together with a replacement scroll-like extruder screw dedicated to pasta making and replacement pasta-extrusion dies. The selected components of said meat-grinding attachment include a hollow main body part 21 having a processing cavity therein within which a scroll-like extruder screw can rotate when driven by the machine, and a hopper 24 for allowing foodstuffs to be introduced into the processing cavity; the attachment being characterised by the further provision of a tubular conversion device 32 for insertion into the processing cavity to condition said cavity for operation with said replacement scroll-like extruder screw 30 and die 31 dedicated to pasta making. Also disclosed is a kit of parts selectively configurable into a meat grinder or a pasta maker.