KitchenAid KPDR Pasta Drying Rack

Great Pasta Drying Rack!
My wife and I received this pasta drying rack as a wedding gift along with various other KitchenAid products. If we hadn't have received it as a gift, I would have bought it and considered it $40 well spent.

The pasta rack is well designed and easy to deploy and pack up for storage. When you open it from the package all of the hanging rods are aligned with each other. Turn the black wheel at the top of the drying rack about one full turn and all of the hanging rods space themselves out evenly (see product picture). No need to position each hanging rod by hand, which would be a very tedious chore. Pull each of the feet down and then lift up on the ends to lock them in place.

Craftily designed to be stored in the top of the drying rack is a "transfer rod" which conforms to the hanging rods to allow you to transfer the pasta to each hanging rod. What we do is cut the pasta through our KitchenAid pasta plate running off the stand mixer and just before the pasta is...

Wish it were taller
I love making pasta at home. The KitchenAid Pasta Drying Rack is a great tool for those who have had to put up with drying pasta on a counter, inundated with flour to keep it from forming an unedible blob. Unique features like the Pasta wand is a big plus. It is concaved so you can run the pasta over the rungs of the dryer to gently place the pasta. The rungs can be dispersed using the top handle. The rungs open with plenty of disatnce between each other (good job). The legs retract against the length of the drying rack, but the leg tubes don't seem to be very strong. I could see someone, retractng the legs, and bending them in the process.

The biggest issue: It is not high enough. Pasta on the lower rungs have to be cut shorter or allowed to bunch up on the table. Overall, very satisfied.

Great product
This pasta dryer is great! It's compact and durable. I kept it's original box to store it in. I dried a whole lot of pasta in a small space. Great companion to the KitchenAid pasta maker.

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