The ultra-functional Atlas has rubber non-slip feet, a fixing clamp for stability and a carefully engineered crank handle – just clamp it to your worktop or kitchen table, insert the crank handle to the main roller mechanism and it’s ready to go. You just need to make the best variety of pasta dough to suit the sauce you’ve planned for supper… The helpful instruction book holds super-simple recipes for at least four basic varieties, including a gluten-free version, and there are four simple ways to colour your pasta too. More than a dozen Marcato accessories are available to expand your pasta-making repertoire, with a choice of additional cutting rollers and even a powered motor that just ‘plugs in’ to do the winding for you in place of the crank handle.

Internationally recognised as the gold standard of pasta makers, the Marcato Atlas 150 is full of unique features that make homemade pasta simpler and more flavoursome. Italians have a well-earned reputation for their twin loves of family and cookery, and the authentic, all-Italian Marcato Atlas 150 Pasta Machine is a brilliant piece of kit that is sure to please anyone who loves to cook in the Mediterranean way, with fresh ingredients and a passion for food. Pasta sheets can be up to 15cm (6") wide, fettucine and tagliolini strands are cut 6.5mm or 1.5mm wide respectively.

If you use the pasta straight away, remember that fresh pasta takes as little as 2 minutes to cook in boiling water – but, if you wish, you can dry the pasta (in bundles or strands) and keep it in an airtight jar for up to a month. Whether you’re making sheet pasta for assembling a lasagne, carefully constructing tasty ravioli parcels, twisting your own little cappaletti or tortellini, or creating cannelloni tubes to be filled and smothered in sauce, you’ll find it so much less hassle with the Atlas 150 to help. And for days when only a multi-stranded pasta dish will do, this pasta machine comes with a dual cutting roller that can cut your just-made sheets into fettucine or tagliolini. With rollers that have been carefully engineered from food-grade anodised aluminium alloy, every sheet or strand of pasta that you make will have an imperceptibly roughened, porous surface that helps the pasta hold onto sauce, while five international patents ensure that every element of the machine works as efficiently as you could wish.