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Make fresh pasta

30–60 minutes · Use what you have · Easy

A small, properly bounded project: Make fresh pasta. Start with a working first version, pay attention to what you notice, and leave yourself with something you can use, understand or show someone.

A cook guides long strands of fresh pasta from a hand-cranked pasta machine over a floured counter.
Photo by Jorge Zapata on Unsplash; free to use under the Unsplash License (https://unsplash.com/license).

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Do it

  1. Clear a little space and decide what a finished first attempt looks like.
  2. Gather only the tools, materials or information needed for that first attempt.
  3. Work through the basic version slowly, checking each change as you make it.
  4. Test, use or observe the result, then write down one improvement for next time.

What next?

Keep the useful notes, photograph the result if there is one, then go and find something else to do.