Our Test Kitchen Editor Can't Stop Raving About This DIY Pasta Maker

Any home cook will tell you that getting their hands on a KitchenAid stand mixer (finally!) changed their life for the better. Out of the box, these heritage lifelong mixers can do so much to revolutionize prep work on a daily basis — especially for bakers, who can elevate their finished baked goods a lot easier thanks to KitchenAid's deft precision. But a KitchenAid can do so much more than just whip through wet and dry ingredients with ease thanks to its highly precise line of attachments.

Nearly all of attachments and accessories are designed to be used with any Kitchenaid. The gadgets that are specifically designed to fit into what's known as the attachment socket of your stand mixer (which is covered by the silver cap at the very top of your mixer's tilting head) can reportedly be used with any model dating all the way back to 1937. KitchenAid's most popular mixer models have been within the Artisan series recently, and all of the attachments on this list work well with any Artisan stand mixer. These attachments can help cooks prep savory recipes, whiz through fresh homemade pasta. grind and sift all kinds of ingredients, and even eliminate the need for a vegetable spiralizer that may hog space elsewhere.

Editors in the Good Housekeeping Institute's Test Kitchen highlight the following attachments as a way for you to turn an everyday mixer into an "all-around workhorse for cooking" in any kitchen. All of these items have been tested in our Kitchen Appliances Lab. We're sharing the best KitchenAid attachments based on their workability and versatility in the kitchen, their cost, and whether or not they're likely to make cooking complicated dishes that much easier at home.