The 'No-Rinse' Rule: An Owner's Guide to Maintaining Your Commercial Pasta Maker

You’ve just finished making a beautiful batch of fresh pasta with your 38-pound, “commercial grade” LEONEBEBE N-110V-500W machine. Your first instinct is to take the pot and blades—listed as “Stainless Steel”—and run them under hot, soapy water.

Stop. Do not do this.

Welcome to the most critical, and most confusing, part of owning a “commercial” tool: maintenance. The cleaning instructions for this machine are counter-intuitive, and ignoring them is the fastest way to destroy your $360 investment.

The “Dishwasher Safe” vs. “Do Not Rinse” Contradiction

Here is the problem: * The Amazon Spec Sheet: “Is Dishwasher Safe: Yes” * The User Manual: “Do not rinse with water. Do not use wet towel to clean roller and blade directly.”

Who do you trust? The marketing sheet or the engineer’s manual? Always trust the manual.

The manual also reveals the “why” in a Q&A section: “Q:How to clean the pasta blade?” The answer (paraphrased) is: the blade itself is stainless, but the “gears at both ends are not.”

This is the critical secret. This is not a “sealed” consumer appliance. It is a “commercial” machine with exposed (or semi-exposed) steel gears.

Water + Steel Gears = Rust.

A $360 machine can be ruined by a $1 mistake (washing it).

The “Dry Clean” Method (The Only Safe Way)

The manual provides a specific, “dry” cleaning protocol. This is not a “suggestion”; it is a requirement.
1. Turn Off and Unplug: Never clean while plugged in.
2. Let the Dough Dry: This is the most important step. Do not try to wipe off “wet” dough. Let the machine sit for an hour. The “batter on roller and blade” will dry out and become brittle.
3. “Tap Them Off Gently”: Once dry, the flour and dough bits will flake right off with a “tap” or a dry brush.
4. Wipe Down (Carefully): After the dry bits are gone, “clean roller and blade with wet towel again.” A damp towel is not “rinsing.”

The “Oiling” Method (The Pro-Maintenance Step)

This is not an “appliance”; it is a machine with moving parts. Like any machine, it requires lubrication. The user manual is explicit about this:

• For the Blade (Regularly): “Pay attentlon tothe malntenance of the blade, only drop 2-3 drops salad oil into smal holes on both sldes of blade regulary” (Focus ).
• For the Gears (Every 3 Months): “Everythreemonths,open coversonboth sidesof thepastamaker and grease some gears”

This is what you are signing up for when you buy a “commercial” tool. You are trading the “plug-and-play, dishwasher-safe” convenience of a consumer appliance for the power and longevity of a professional machine.

The Final Diagnosis: The LEONEBEBE is a high-performance tool. You must treat it like one. “Cleaning” it means keeping it dry and oiled, not “washing” it.