Bellemain Collapsible Large Pasta Drying Rack - Foldable Fresh Pasta Wooden Drying Rack - Stand Dryer Noodle Hanger for Kitchen with 8 Bar Handles - Easy Storage and Quick Set-Up

I recently purchased a pasta machine from Amazon and realized I would now need a pasta drying rack. After reading many reviews on drying racks, I chose to purchase this Bellemain rack. I'm so glad I did! The base is large and extremely sturdy. Assembly was simple by just screwing the center pole into the base. The long rods easily fit through the holes of the rod. The rack easily fit four portions of fettuccine noodles! I store the pole and base together and keep the rods on a shelf in my pantry. I am enjoying making fresh pasta, especially with the best tools!

We have recently started making our own pasta and this is a nice rack for trying out drying the pasta noodles. We typically make up a batch to use immediately, but we wanted to try drying pasta to see if we like it. It works really well for our purpose. It held a batch of fettuccine noodles with no issue. It is easy to assemble and disassemble for storage. We are happy with this purchase and will definitely use it whenever the mood strikes to make a bigger batch of pasta!

As someone who only dabbles in pasta making for fun, this drying rack is more than adequate. It's only my husband and I in our household, so I don't make large quantities of pasta at a time. This rack is slightly flimsy and I'm afraid it wouldn't take much more than one batch of spaghetti noodles at a time. It's prone to tip and you must be careful when you move it after placing pasta on it. It's very easy to put together and then take back apart to store in any small space. The price is excellent compared to the prices of other pasta drying devices, and works perfectly well for what I need it for. I'd suggest something a bit more heavy duty if you're a big time pasta maker.

I'm not new to pasta making. Having been brought up in an Italian household, and being a second-generation American, fresh pasta was a big part of our Sunday dinners. I've made fresh pasta for more decades than I feel comfortable revealing here. Getting it down to a science was a "process." Once I got married, I kept up with the tradition, upgrading my machine twice, initially from my grandmother's ancient, straight-from-the-Old-Country cast iron get-up, to a noodle roller, to within the last 15 years an extrusion machine.What never changed, however, was what to do with the finished pasta, particularly in the humid summer months, where sticking together was a common, annoying problem. Same for the sheets of pasta before cutting with a noodle roller. It was comical. I'd bring folding chairs in the kitchen, to hang pasta over them. I made an unholy mess. The kitchen looked like a junkyard, between all the dinged-up folding chairs draped with pasta, to the tiny fragments of pasta all over and flour strewn about the floor (to say nothing of the dusting on my face and clothes.)Enter this pasta drying rack. I got it just before Christmas Eve, for which I traditionally make a white wine seafood sauce over spinach fettuccine. So that day, we unpacked it, and found the assembly to be so easy, that even I, the original mechanical klutz, could get it slapped together and operational in a couple of minutes. Each dowel is slightly narrower on one end, so you always know which to insert into the hole in the post. The base is wide and solid enough to hold the rack balanced, even when only one or two arms are loaded with pasta, without ever rocking. I began loading it up. Each of the 8 arms (4 dowels that are inserted through holes in the center post halfway, where they create 8 arms) are long enough to hold a lot of pasta. I made a quadruple batch, and only had to offload 4 arms into a clean, smooth kitchen towel. But by that time they had dried sufficiently to stay quite separate. Best of all, the little pieces of dough that invariably fall off were not on the floor, but on the counter only, directly below the rack. No messy floors!The rack was disassembled just as fast as it went together. Reverse the process, taking out the 4 dowels, then unscrewing the central post from the base. All the pieces fit easily back in the thin box, which takes up minimal room on a pantry shelf when stored on its side. Because the pasta dough wasn't sticky and because the day was not humid, washing the rack was not necessary. However, if you should find that your dough is moist enough that the pasta has stuck to it, washing the rack pieces should be a very simple matter with hot, soapy water and an old toothbrush to scrub as necessary.After having followed the same messy procedure for decades, I was pleasantly surprised that this gadget had made the task so much simpler and neater. This is da BOMB!! I just wish I had found it earlier.

This product is great. It is easy to assemble and ready to use in minutes. I like that it can be taken apart easily and stored when I’m not using it. It holds a lot of pasta too for drying. A great value for the money.

Spent the extra 5 dollars on this beautiful wood version. It was worth it! This made my noodles the best they have ever been. Drying them like this makes all the difference. Easy assembly, sturdy and the wood is so smooth. Very good quality.

My teenager son with autism got it into his head that he wanted to make pasta from scratch and we though about everything except how to dry it. We ended up using stainless steel skewers duct taped to some came mix boxes, which drove my wife up a wall.It was obvious that we would need some kind of drying rack. This rack was assembled in seconds, and it has a small footprint for the amount of pasta it can dry at a time, which is really nice. And storage is not a problem since it is very easy to take out the drying pegs. It even turned the pasta making into a family activity.Pros: simple to assemble, use, tear down and put away.Cons: my waistline is not having a lot of fun.