I dropped out of the forum for 3 months. Everyone knows that my family gave me a wide dough roll. I make dumplings for my family and the family of my daughter, but my hands still itch and I made a homemade dumplings for my good old regular dough sheeter Titania Empire with 14 cm wide rolls for rolling 48 dumplings at once. For this I took a double dumpling maker with a "book". which I bought through Avito in Moscow. I will tell you how I did it, suddenly, someone wants to repeat my "feat".
I disassembled the "-book" dumpling machine, I had to cut two locks and two pins with a hacksaw for metal, having previously fixed it in a locksmith's vice. I would especially like to note that it is necessary to fix the dumplings in a vice very carefully and very gently, because I had to look all the time. so that the jaws of the vice and working tools (a hacksaw for metal and files. and skins) do not even accidentally touch the edges of the dumplings, because this could damage the edges, and this would already be reflected in the quality of cutting the dumplings with edges when rolling with a rolling pin. I had to work slowly, with caution. After cutting off the locks and pins. it took a long and tedious time to file down the unnecessary to the required shape (and the body of the dumpling maker is thick!), then also gently grind it with a sandpaper. gradually moving from larger grain to medium, and then to small. I had to work for a long time and slowly with manual tools, because even the available two engravers with a bunch of existing cones and nozzles did not facilitate or accelerate the work. It took two days to trim and grind with women's handles at home and ended up with two separate dumplings for 24 dumplings each and a bunch of metal sawdust. But this was not half the battle, and most likely only a third of what should have been done. For the dumplings were separate from each other and have not yet been fastened firmly and securely into a comfortable long dumplings in any way.
It was necessary to come up with and recreate the design of a bed for combining two scattered dumplings into a single design. I tried different materials, but the whole difficulty was that. so that the design meets such requirements as reliability, rigidity, so that the metal bodies of the dumplings are securely fixed, do not slap, and at the same time can be reached, and it was also necessary to increase the height of the dumplings itself, so that you can make not only small dumplings, but be able to lay a lot fillings into the holes of the dumplings, and at the same time you need to think over a convenient system for removing excess flour from under the holes. In addition, the most difficult thing in designing a bed for a dumpling maker was that, in addition to a reliable fixation of dumplings, the edges of the metal dumplings should be strictly at a certain level with the edges of the side walls of the dumpling maker bed. so that only the edges of the dumplings rise above the edges, so that nothing would prevent the rolling pin from rolling. For this, the framing edges of the bed must be milled to a strictly defined height, not higher or lower than the desired one. And at the same time, the material of the bed of the dumplings must be durable and moisture resistant for easy subsequent care of the dumplings. I tried aluminum corners of different profiles, cut a bed of relatively soft pine wood, but at the end of the research, the laminate was perfect. I used a jigsaw, but for that. so that the jigsaw file does not lead and in order to get an even cut, I used a building meter level as a guide to direct the jigsaw platform.fixing it with T-clamps. The very design of the bed of the dumplings consists of a base. fixed on the base of two wooden planks, and on top it is crowned with 4 sides in the form of a frame. A receiver for excess flour is rigidly fixed to the longitudinal sides of the dumplings. When the dumplings are tilted, excess flour quickly leaves the receiver, because the flour moves along the chute. I assembled the entire structure using a screwdriver and self-tapping screws. into pre-drilled holes with a small drill, because this is not a soft wood, but a very hard laminate. So that the caps of the screws are flush, that is, flush with the framing frame. then before screwing in the screws. you need to drill a larger diameter drill grooves - grooves under the caps of the screws. It is drilled for a long time and strained. you do not need to feed the drill quickly. Of course, I made a stencil for flouring only the working holes of the dumplings. When I assembled the dumplings and began to make the first rolling, my dumplings began to roll on the table like a ski in the snow. I had to glue two flat pieces of rubber on the bottom of the dumplings, and now the dumplings became like dug up.
All!!! I did it! It took the dumpling machine itself, a laminate, wooden blocks, 4 large serving plastic napkins for a stencil and excess flour dusting on the receiver chute, double-sided tape, self-tapping screws, rubber for the bottom stopper and equipment with tools - a locksmith's workbench, T-shaped clamps, hacksaw for metal, hacksaw for wood, files, skin of different numbers, electric drill, electric jigsaw, electric screwdriver. A little more plaster for minor abrasions and hand cream. And, I forgot, because there is also a whole week of work.
The extraction of ready-made dumplings occurs by placing a cutting board on one of the two metal bodies of the dumplings, followed by extraction by the rounded corners of the dumplings. then in the air I turn the dumplings and the board 180 degrees. As a result, 24 dumplings remain on the cutting board. the same is done with the second dumplings. here the whole prefabricated dumpling maker does not turn over, but two separately extracted metal bodies of the dumplings are turned over. As a result, we get 48 dumplings for one rolling. The width of 14 cm from the Imperia Titania dough sheeter is just enough for a width of 4 rows of dumplings. Since the dumpling maker consists of two metal bodies. then, of course. I turned the cells of one of the dumplings in the holes in order to check how this will affect the speed of extracting the dumplings. I did the experiment and found out. that this did not affect the speed of shaking out the dumplings. dumplings were shaken out the same way. that with turned holes, that of untreated. and left it like that.
It was very interesting for me to assemble and make a dumpling maker myself, in order to check my theoretical assumptions, and I also made this dumpling maker for my daughter, because I myself have to constantly make and send dumplings to her. The daughter refuses to take the dumplings, because she has long been accustomed to receiving ready-made dumplings. But nothing, I'll see. In the meantime, she stopped giving her dumplings, like mom is now too busy. Here is the end of the story with a dumpling machine for a dough roll. Described in detail possible for those who dare to repeat my "feat".
