Abstract: An apparatus for automatically kneading and stretching a mixture of ingredients used in the preparation of an article of food such as dough, so as to enable efficient and convenient preparation thereof, including a support, a frame mounted on the support, a pair of shafts rotatably journalled in the frame, one above the other, a pair of rollers, secured to the pair of shafts such that a space is formed between such rollers, means for driving the pair of shafts and the pair of rollers secured thereto so as to generate rotation thereof, and a pan, including a downwardly-inclined top surface on which the mixture of ingredients for the dough is positionable, which pan is positionable on top of the frame so as to feed such mixture of ingredients into the space between the pair of rollers which are driven by the driving means so as to pull the mixture of ingredients therethrough so as to automatically knead and stretch such mixture thereby.