the pasta experience

So I got a pasta machine for christmas. Last night I decided to try it out. Now i know why we can buy ready made pasta from the Supermarket. I had flour from one end of the kitchen to the other. Strings of pasta were stuck to the bench top. However it tasted pretty good once I finally got it all together. The kitchen needed to be totally scrubbed down afterwards. Cost of Supermarket pasta around $4...cost of making your own about $30 (eggs, flour, time, cleaning equipment, countless fun(NOT)) Thanks Saskia for the pasta machine but I think ill be relying on the supermarket in future unless I have about five hours spare.