I love making fresh pasta. It is annoying to have to carry around the pasta machine to create quick noodles or not being able to make them if you are in a kitchen that does not have a pasta machine (=normal people…). With the pasta machine you have specific cutters and you can’t always get the width you want for your noodles.
My idea is to use a device that looks like a spring.
You simply create your pasta dough, roll it flat until it is as thin as you like it, adjust the spring on top of it until the width between the spring metal circles is in the width you want and use your roll to roll on top of it and cut the pasta using the spring to a long noodle.
With a few knife strokes you can cut the long single noodle to many shorter noodles.
Keep in mind that a regular spring will have variable thickness from the center to the end. My proposed device will keep the same width along its length (might add a few metal rings but can easily be done).
