• Multipurpose electric pasta makers are available from multiple companies.Thomas Northcut/Lifesize/Getty Images
  
  Electric pasta makers come in two guises, standard electric pasta maker and multipurpose electric pasta maker. Machines of the former class are relatively limited in their abilities, but those of the latter class have a wide range of uses that run a large gamut. Multipurpose pasta makers are often not even pasta makers in name; they are more commonly referred to as juicers. Yet making pasta is one of the many functions they are capable of performing.
  
  

Pasta

• Electric pasta makers are most obviously employed in the creation of the Italian noodle for which they are named. Most electric pasta makers are capable of making more than one type of pasta. Types of pasta the machines are capable of producing include linguini, spaghetti and rontini. Linguini and spaghetti are long, thin stringy noodles, and rotini is a short thick noodle with a hollow center. When processing, pasta makers use either augers, cylindrical parts with raised ridges similar to drill bits, mastication or crushing and refining technology similar to the action of a jaw chewing.
  
  

Juice

• Multipurpose electric pasta makers can be used as juicers. The juicing function on electric pasta makers is capable of producing juice from both fruits and vegetables. Such juicing functions often use a multi-stage process designed to refine the juice in a manner that minimizes the pulp content of the product. Most electric pasta makers with multipurpose functions are capable of producing soy milk, and some are equipped with special settings or technology for juicing wheat grass.
  
  

Nut Butters

• Multipurpose electric pasta makers are capable of producing nut butter from nuts. The process of creating nut butter from nuts involves the crushing and churning of solid nuts such that they become a paste, which is accomplished through the same auger or masticating technology involved in pasta making. If the websites of nut butter manufacturers are to be believed, electric pasta maker owners can make nut butter from more or less any nut available, from peanuts and cashews to sunflowers, macadamias and walnuts.
  
  

Other Uses

• You have a myriad of other uses for electric pasta makers, depending on the brand and type. Other uses include the production of frozen deserts, homemade baby food, grinding coffee and spices, mincing herbs, processing foods, making pie crusts and making sauces and pates. Japanese food like mochi and rice cakes can be made with some electric pasta makers.