The Local Aromas Foodie Store
These are the products we love and use
The #1 question we get asked during our cooking classes and online cooking courses is about the products we use in our kitchen. We are totally obsessed with quality when it comes to cooking utensils and food so we suggest only brands that we personally use. We are happy to share our favorite products from our kitchen, pantry, and bookshelf.
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Kitchen essentials
Bialetti moka express. 100% Made in Italy. Polished aluminum.
We couldn’t even imagine our mornings without the bubbling sound and aroma coming from our moka coffee maker. This polished aluminum model is 100% made in Italy. It comes in different sizes, according to the number of espresso cups you want to prepare.
Making Pasta & Gnocchi
A pasta machine is probably the most important tool for homemade pasta. When making gnocchi (potato, ricotta), all you need is a gnocchi stripper board, rigagnocchi in Italian. Watch Mamma Giuliana show you how to use a pasta machine and a rigagnocchi!
Marcato pasta machine. 100% Made in Italy.
Makes 150mm / 6-in wide pasta sheets. With a 10-position adjustment knob you can make pasta sheets from 4,8mm / 1.9in to 0,6mm / 0.2in. It comes with a fettuccine and tagliolini cutting roller.
Marcato pasta machine. 100% Made in Italy.
Makes 180mm / 7-in wide pasta sheets. With a 10-position adjustment knob you can make pasta sheets from 4,8mm / 1.9in to 0,6mm / 0.2in. It comes with a fettuccine and tagliolini cutting roller.
Imperia pasta machine. 100% Made in Italy.
Makes 140mm / 5.5-in wide pasta sheets. With a 6-position adjustment knob you can make pasta sheets from 2,2mm / 0.08in to 0,2mm / 0.008in. It comes with a fettuccine and tagliolini cutting roller.
Marcato colored pasta machines. 100% Made in Italy.
Marcato also makes colored pasta machines available in these colors: black, red, gold, pink, green, blue, light blue. They make 150mm / 6-in wide pasta sheets and have a 10-position adjustment knob that makes pasta sheets from 4,8mm / 1.9in to 0,6mm / 0.2in. They come with a fettuccine and tagliolini cutting roller.
Small pasta drying rack. 100% Made in Italy. Natural beechwood.
This single pasta drying rack is very helpful when making small amounts of pasta sheets or other long pasta shapes (fettuccine, tagliolini…).
XL pasta drying rack. 100% Made in Italy. Natural beechwood.
This double pasta drying rack is very helpful when making a large quantity of pasta sheets or other long pasta shapes (fettuccine, tagliolini…). It can also be used as a single rack.
Stackable pasta dryer. 100% Made in Italy. Natural beechwood.
This is the best tool when preparing pasta, ravioli, gnocchi, tortellini. By placing them on the net they dry out and don’t stick to one another. You can stack as many as you need.
Chitarra pasta cutter. 100% Made in Italy. Natural beechwood.
A chitarra (guitar, in Italian) pasta cutter is used for pasta shapes traditional to central Italy. By rolling pasta sheets over this ‘guitar’, you get squared spaghetti of 2 different widths: 3mm / 0.1in and 5mm / 0.2in.
9-piece pasta starter kit. 100% Made in Italy.
A starter kit is a great way approach pasta making for the very first time. This kit includes: a rolling pin, a spaghetti cutter rolling pin, a fettuccine cutter rolling pin, a curved pastry wheel, a dent pasta cutter, a pasta drying rack (small), a garganelli and gnocchi stripper, a spaghetti tong, a spaghetti servings tool.
Garganelli and gnocchi striper. 100% Made in Italy. Natural beechwood.
This a 2-in-1 stripper board. Use it with your hands to make gnocchi. Use it with the additional stick tool to make garganelli, a traditional Italian egg-based pasta similar to penne.
Gnocchi striper. 100% Made in Italy. Natural beechwood.
We have gazillions of gnocchi boards in our Local Aromas kitchen! The stripes and shape given to the gnocchi are perfect to capture the sauce. In Italian we call this tool rigagnocchi, gnocchi stiper.
Potato masher or ricer with 2 inserts. 100% Made in Italy. Stainless steel.
When making potato gnocchi, this is a must-have! You boil unpeeled (old or red) potatoes. Once they are cooked, cut them in half, place the cut side in the potato masher facing down. As you mash the potatos, the skin will remain in the inside … so no need to peel them! This tool come with 2 inserts (3mm / 0.12-in and 5mm / 0.2-in holes).
Rolling pin. 100% Made in Italy. Natural beechwood.
Who doesn’t need a rolling pin?! This traditional pasta-making tool, in Italian called mattarello, has been used for centuries when rolling out pasta. It comes in different lenghts.
Spätzle maker. Stainless steel blades.
Spätzle are irregularly-shaped liquid gnocchi highly consumed in the northernmost part of Italy. They are typically made from a mixture of flour, eggs, and water and are dropped in boiling water and shaped using a Spätzle-making utensil (called Spätzlehobel).
Making Ravioli & Tortellini
There are different ways to make homemade ravioli. Watch Mamma Giuliana show you how to make them with and without stamps and molds.
Ravioli mold with rolling pin. 100% Made in Italy. Aluminum, natural beechwood.
With this mold you make 24 square ravioli all at once! Each ravioli measures 32x32mm / 1.26×1.26in.
Ravioli mold with rolling pin. 100% Made in Italy. Aluminum, natural beechwood.
Use this mold to make 48 small square ravioli all at once! Each ravioli measures 25x25mm / 0.98×0.98in.
Ravioli mold with rolling pin. 100% Made in Italy. Aluminum, natural beechwood.
With this mold you get 12 round ravioli (the filling is round) all at once! Each ravioli measures 52x52mm / 2x2in.
Ravioli mold with rolling pin. 100% Made in Italy. Aluminum, natural beechwood.
Make 24 round ravioli (the filling is round) all at once! Each ravioli measures 40x40mm / 1.57×1.57in.
8-piece ravioli and tortellini starter kit. 100% Made in Italy.
A starter kit is a great option to approach ravioli and tortellini making for the very first time. This kit includes: a 12-round ravioli mold, a rolling pin, 4 ravioli stamps (2 round and 2 square), a curved pastry wheel, and a tortellino cutter.
Adjustable pastry wheel. 100% Made in Italy.
This is a great tool to cut same-sized shapes from you pasta sheets. You can cut out squares to make ravioli, garganelli, and other pasta shapes.
Pastry wheels. 100% Made in Italy.
Whether you prefer it straight or curved, a pastry wheel can be your only tool to cut and seal ravioli. It is a simple yet very handy tool!
Round ravioli stamps. 100% Made in Italy. Aluminum.
Make round or half-moon (by folding the shape) ravioli. These stamps come in different diameters, from 80mm / 3in to 50mm / 1.97in.
Star ravioli stamps. 100% Made in Italy. Aluminum.
Make star-shaped ravioli. The size of the star is 70x70mm / 2.76×2.76in.
Triangle ravioli stamps. 100% Made in Italy. Aluminum.
Make triangle-shaped ravioli. The size of the triangle is 45mm / 1.77in.
Square ravioli stamps. 100% Made in Italy. Aluminum.
Make square ravioli (large or small). These stamps come in different sizes: 70x70mm / 2.75in and 40x40mm / 1.6in.
Heart ravioli stamps. 100% Made in Italy. Aluminum.
Make heart-shaped ravioli. The size of the heart is 85x85mm / 3.3×3.3in.
Plain tortellino cutter. 100% Made in Italy. Stainless steel, beechwood.
To get perfectly cut squares when making tortellini, use this tool! Easily cut your pasta sheets into plain 4x4cm / 1.6×1.6-in squares.
Dent tortellino cutter. 100% Made in Italy. Stainless steel, beechwood.
To get perfectly cut squares when making tortellini, use this tool! Easily cut your pasta sheets into dent 4x4cm / 1.6×1.6-in squares.
Making pizza
Homemade pizza is just the best pizza! It is so simple and basic to make that it doesn’t require fancy tools. One that we love and use is the pizza stone.
Pizza cooking stone and peel. 100% Made in Italy. Lava from Mt. Etna, birchwoord.
You’ll get excellent results when cooking your pizza directly on the pizza stone made from natural lava from Mt. Etna. Size: 38x30x1,5cm / 15x12x0.6in. The pizza peel is natural birchwood. Size: 29,5×41,5cm / 12x16in.
Extra large pizza peel. 100% Made in Italy. Natural birchwood.
This XL pizza peel is great for pizza lovers! Size: 37,5x50cm / 14.8×19.7in.
Pizza cutter. 100% Made in Italy. Stainless steel, wooden handle.
Easily cut your pizza into slices with this pizza cutter. The stainless steel wheel has a diameter of 10cm / 3.9in.
