Well, an hour later and all my wife and I have is a sink filled with dry Dry DRY pasta dough and a mixer that feels like it's about to catch fire.This pasta maker DOES NOT WORK. The dies have slots so close together that you can't MAKE the dough dry enough for them not to adhere to one another the moment they emerge from the front.I kept thinking as I bore down with much of my (considerable!) weight on the maple plunger (which doesn't even fit the bore of the grinder), "If I had decided to roll this pasta out by hand, I'd be done by now..."I'm taking this item back TOMORROW and getting an old-fashioned crank roller like our parents used... I'm appalled that this piece of junk has the Kitchenaid name on it.