Abstract: A kitchen appliance for and method of making farinaceous products such as spaghetti, fettucini, macaroni, manicotti, lasagna, pizza crusts, taco shells, bagels, breadsticks and like dough products, use a mixing chamber for receiving the product ingredients, a rotary mixer for mixing the ingredients, a rotary extruder for extruding the mixed ingredients through an extrusion die at a discharge outlet, and a reversible motor drive for jointly turning the rotary mixer and rotary extruder about the same axis of rotation in either circumferential direction. In one direction, only mixing is effected; in the opposite direction, extruding is effected. An arrangement for and method of adjusting the thickness of the extruded farinaceous product are also described.