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Imperia - Imperia NERA Pasta Machine - NEW

Italian quality and tradition, since 1932.

The Imperia pasta machine is made in Italy from chrome-plated steel and with great craftsmanship to guarantee sturdiness and durability.

The Imperia Manual pasta machine in a stunning metallic black finish.

Making fresh pasta at home has never been so easy. This hand-operated pasta machine from Imperia produces sheets as wide as 150mm and with a choice of six different thicknesses, the chrome-plated machine is incredibly robust and long-lasting. As standard the Imperia Pasta machine will enable you to make many types of pasta, such as spaghetti, tagliatelle, lasagne sheets which can in turn be used to make ravioli and cannelloni.

The cutter section can easily be removed and attachments can be purchased separately and added to make other types of pasta, such as linguini, lasagnette and ravioli to name a few.

The wooden handle is comfortable to hold and can be operated with the minimum of effort, guaranteeing professional results with a far superior taste and texture. Imperia also makes a motor attachment for this machine, no need to hand wind the machine or clamp it down to your bench top.

Product features

Dimensions 160(H) x 185(W) x 205(D)mm

Comfortable wooden grip

Handle operates easily in a smooth movement

Included is a double cutter to make spaghetti and tagliatelle

Clamp to secure the machine down to your bench top

Black limited edition version

FoglioChef + Matterello

FoglioChef, the 100% food-grade SL70 silicone multi-purpose pastry mat withstands high and low temperatures

Resists high and low temperatures (+260°C and-60°C), adheres perfectly to the work surface, is nonstick, hygienic and easy to clean.

On its surface are imprinted concentric circles and a scale expressed in cm/inch to help you make the right size sheets and doughs.

SheetChef is usable in all types of ovens, is dishwasher safe, and is always re-rollable for space-saving storage.

Cookies the new a cookie gun from Imperia has arrived. The product is completely made of steel, easy to use and very handy. With Imperia "Cookies" you can make cookies of many different shapes and not only that; in fact, in addition to the 14 disks/shapes it also comes with 4 nozzles that allow you to decorate cakes and fill them.

It can be said that with natural ingredients and imagination many cookies can be invented. Like all Imperia brand products, it is 100 percent made in Italy.

The kit consists of:

• 14 molds: Christmas tree, heart, butterfly, shamrock, helm, donut, snowdrop, petal, snowflake, primrose, daisy, sun, millerighe, smile.
• 4 spouts: filler, star, rectangle, crescent.

The long history of the cookie

It seems that the origin of cookies can be traced to Persia, as far back as the 7th century BC. Some historians assert instead that the first cookie was baked in ancient Rome. The earliest traces date back to texts attributable to Apicius, a Roman gourmet who lived in the 1st century AD, during the time of Tiberius.

The Middle Ages is the period in which there is the most evidence of products very similar to our cookies, including pan pepato, hard, crisp cookies, and the forerunners of the meringue. The cookie, as we know it today, is a French invention: in fact, in 14th-century Paris it was possible to buy tasty little wafers filled with fruit.

The word cookie comes from the Latin "biscoctus panis," bread baked twice, which becomes "biscuit" in English. In contrast, the term "cookie" has Dutch origins: in fact, it comes from the word "koekje," small or round cake, like the small pieces of dough that Dutch bakers used in their ovens to test the temperature. The first cookies also composed of butter and sugar entered the culinary scene in the 18th century. So many cookie recipes are found in the 19th century, when the availability of sugar, flour, and yeast became more continuous.

For example, the classic Cookie, or chocolate chip cookie was invented only in 1937 in Whitman, Massachusetts, USA. In Italy, for example, Savoiardi biscuits take their name from Savoy, part of the Savoy kingdom, and date back to the late 15th century, when they were created at the court of the Dukes of Savoy in honor of a visit by the King of France. The chocolate-coated cookie, on the other hand, only became popular after World War II.