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  • This video is sponsored by Skillshare.

  • Hey guys! What's up? It's Alex. Welcome back. This is part two of me making the ultimate pasta machine.

  • If you remember when, in the first part, I ordered a contraption straight from a factory in China.

  • It did arrive all the way to LE STUDIO, but it came in pieces, so

  • I had to fix it. Which i sure did but this time it's not about this. It's about improving that machine.

  • Spoiler alert! I will, also be sharing a, fully customized, fully automatic, fully available,

  • online noodle recipe courtesy of....

  • You know. Anyway...

  • Easy-peasy all the way to nighttime anxiety, these are

  • my improvements. One: the machine came almost naked, so I added a small wooden board beneath it, but I think we can

  • do better. Now I'm using stainless steel on a wider or longer board

  • To improve the stability I'm also adding rubber feet to prevent that thing from, you know, wiggling around.

  • Now it's stable. Next: the thickness settings.

  • The old knobs were too small, which is shameful especially when you want to enjoy that analog part. And also it's not bold enough

  • So I am improving that with bigger and more ergonomic-friendly, knobs and also longer setting screws

  • And that is accuracy !

  • Okay next in terms of you know feeding situation:

  • So a bit suggestive but not super effective. Again I'm using a sheet of metal, measured, bent a few times

  • Never know when the baking steel will come in handy

  • Secure it in place with a few screws and there you have it a proper dough feeder.

  • *Shing* I'm also adding a big notch at the end of it in order to fit a wooden roller. That's efficiency!

  • Next: ah yeah, the noodle knife locking mechanism sucked big time

  • That small tab was literally placed at the worst location ever.

  • Like diametrically opposed to the point where all the forces are concentrated

  • No, honestly it's the worst. So instead that's where you need to secure a contact

  • And that is where we are gonna do it. Two screws, one latch.

  • Secured !

  • Next: So in the first part, somebody suggested in the comments that controlling the electric motor with

  • my foot would be badass, and me, stupid, agreed. I mean of course I agreed. Like, what could possibly, go wrong

  • Let me just show you what i wanted to do...

  • I wanted to do this. This is the machine with a belt to be connected to the motor, connected to a controller connected to the foot petal in order to connect to the transformer which would be powered by a socket in the wall

  • It's not super cheap. It requires a bit of soldering but at the end I should be getting a nice *vroom* *vroom* *vroom*

  • It would work a bit like like the sewing machine... Sewing machine. It's funny

  • *clock ticking*

  • Huh! A sewing....

  • So uh, I just got for only ten bucks this ! A second hand sewing machine. Not in mint condition. But the seller ensured me

  • that the electric motor and the foot pedal were okay. So I thought

  • why not?

  • Oh la la...Here i am

  • thinking that

  • getting the specific motor would be the most

  • difficult job in this process. I'm such a fool. And now this is me from the future and let

  • me tell you for this one, I have been over hills and valleys : Foolish excitement and brutal disappointment

  • So it wasn't easy but i slowly, did overcome all those challenges like one by one

  • Just to get to THAT moment...

  • *motor buzzes, stalling*

  • So that's right even through two successive gear reductions the sewing machine motor was unable to

  • Flatten a solid piece of ...

  • kitchen towel.

  • ahhhh... merde, merde, merde, merde, merde, merde, merde, merde, merde...

  • Why, did i cheated on you? *drill noises*

  • I know you're upset, I know you are upset. I must admit it's almost fun like you in a very, you know,

  • British way. But still... Nevermind ! Everything's working fine now, so let's move on to the recipe but first...

  • Okay, so let's talk a bit more about Skillshare. It's an online learning community with over

  • 17,000 classes whether they be in design, photo, video. Then you probably know that already.

  • But I love learning I just, you know, enjoy

  • the thrill of it and I think that Skillshare is a great place for this. So let's have a look at

  • my classes. So I'm currently trying to switch from one

  • video editing software to another so there's a class for this. I'm trying to get better at doing transitions within

  • my video. And finally I'm working on a new project

  • which is super exciting, but I need to develop an Android app for that. These are the classes I'm following right now.

  • Hey, new transition! Okay, there's a special offer for you guys. I'll share the link in the description box down below.

  • Now, back to the video.

  • *singing Star Wars theme*

  • I know sometimes with the recipes I can be a bit rough

  • This time, that recipe is gonna be super practical! I'm setting up a ramen noodle automatic calculator

  • which works like this. First and, for your information,

  • one fresh noodle serving is about 140 grams. Then this is your main inputs:

  • You want to enter the number of servings you want. I want eight servings.

  • So automatically the whole spreadsheet calculates how much flour you need, water, gluten, salt and

  • sodium carbonate. Just for your information, you also get the

  • ingredient ratios. You don't have to mess with them unless you really know what you're doing. So that is what I'm gonna use right now

  • Flour

  • Wheat gluten

  • salt

  • Sodium carbonate

  • Warning when you open that box. Sodium carbonate. So that's it for the dry stuff. Now give that a quick mix

  • finally: water

  • I'm gonna try to use my machine straight from the start.

  • Knead the dough by folding it on itself few times. If you don't have a machine like, this, oh, you can definitely use your feet.

  • *machine clicks away*

  • Using, any of my previous, pasta machine to knead the dough?

  • Don't even dream about this it's completely out of the question!

  • This: no problem!

  • Storing fresh dough on roller is brilliant. It's definitely the way to go. Very convenient. I would probably improve this

  • design in the future especially using gravity a bit more so that

  • the dough roll can automatically wind up. You just have to wrap them in plastic so that they don't dry in the meantime

  • *Quiet piano music plays*

  • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, Okay.... time for a little... tasting session

  • *Up beat music playing*

  • *singing oriental orchestral music*

  • *slurp!*

  • Okay guys that's it. I hope you enjoyed this episode, the whole process and the recipe as well.

  • If you did then please give this video a big thumbs up, like it, and share that over all your social media

  • You know how it works. Spread it like butter.

  • I'm sitting because I feel relaxed now. I like this it's very casual. Can you share with

  • me what you would do if you had a machine like this? What would you do? Just tell me in the comments

  • Right now I've got new projects on the stove, and I think you had a

  • quick glimpse during the sponsor time if, of course, you did not skip that part

  • Anyway be sure to subscribe to the channel not to miss those new, exciting coming projects.

  • Take care, bye bye! Salut!

  • *ending music*

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