Abstract: A kitchen appliance for producing pasta or dough products, such as spaghetti, noodles, macaroni and similar cross-sectionally solid or tubular products, or sheets of farinaceous material includes an air blower which directs a stream of air against the respective products as they emerge from the respective orifices of an extrusion die, so that at least the surfaces of such products are dried and their original tackiness is removed, with the result that such products cannot adhere to one another any longer even if they are wetter at the moment of leaving the extrusion orifices than heretofore customary. The air blower is mounted in rotatable relationship with the output shaft of the motor, which powers the mixing and extruding screw accommodated in the housing of the appliance, for rotation thereof relative to the output shaft, and a step-up transmission is provided which rotates the blower at an angular speed considerably exceeding that of the output shaft.

Abstract: An extrusion die for a pasta-making kitchen appliance includes a first part which has a perforated main portion and a second part which has a support portion received in a recess in the first part and having at least one projecting portion which extends into the associated aperture of the first member. Advantageously, there are as many projecting portions, all supported on the support portions, as there are apertures, and the projecting portions are received, in a one-to-one relationship, in the respective apertures. At least one fin extends radially of each of the projecting portions and contacts the surface bounding the respective aperture to support the projecting portion in such aperture. The support portion may include a plurality of discrete legs, some of which are connected with the support legs of the other pins or projecting portions, while the remaining legs engage the internal surface of a collar portion of the first member which surrounds the recess accepting the support portion.