The chef contestants on Bravo’s popular reality TV show “Top Chef” compete against each other each week by completing culinary challenges. These tasks include everything from designing a menu for a finicky bride and groom to getting a restaurant up and running in four hours.

UK-based Brakes was looking for equipment that was diverse enough to handle all types and shapes of pasta - particularly long pastas such as fettuccine, linguine, tagliatelle and spaghetti.