A Pasta Kitchen gift card lets someone choose their own Italian kitchen equipment, whether that turns out to be a Marcato pasta machine, a Berkel knife, a pizza peel or a few bags of proper Italian flour. Pick £10, £25, £50, £75 or £100, and we send it by email once your order is paid: to you, if you would rather print it or pass it on yourself, or straight to the recipient with a short message from you. There are no processing fees and nothing is shaved off the balance while it sits unused, so £50 buys £50 of equipment. Cards are valid for 12 months from the date of purchase. Sending it straight to the recipient Tick "I want to send this as a gift" above and you can add their email address, their name and a message of up to 200 characters, which means the card goes to them rather than landing in your inbox for you to forward on. Leave the box unticked if you would rather receive it yourself, which suits printing it, tucking it into a card, or holding on to it until the day itself. Either way this is a digital card sent by email and we do not post a physical one, so nothing needs to arrive in time. How it is redeemed The email carries a code and a link to the card. At checkout the recipient enters that code in the gift card and discount box, and the balance comes off the total. If their order comes to less than the card is worth the remainder stays on it for next time, and if it comes to more they simply pay the difference by card or PayPal. A gift card counts as payment rather than a promotion, so it works alongside a discount code instead of cancelling it out. The one thing it cannot buy is another gift card. Choosing an amount Smaller amounts suit the tools people are happy to be given but would not think to ask for, so £10 and £25 sit comfortably in gifts under £10 and gifts under £20, covering things like ravioli cutters, gnocchi boards and Italian flour. At £50 the range opens up to drying racks, moka pots and the better knives, and you can see the spread in gifts under £50. £75 and £100 move towards pasta machines and their attachments, and if the plan is a machine or a Berkel knife, a £100 card makes a serious contribution without committing them to your choice of model. More than one card can be applied to a single order as well, so two people can each buy one and put them towards the same thing. When something else is the better buy If you already know exactly what they want, buy the thing itself: a gift card asks the recipient to do the deciding, and that is only a kindness when the choice is genuinely theirs to make. It works best when you know the interest but not the detail, as in you know they make pasta but not whether they already own a ravioli stamp. Worth weighing too is the 12 month validity, which is a real deadline, so for anyone inclined to save a voucher for a rainy day a physical present from our gift collection will serve them better. Gift Card Details Specification Detail Amounts £10, £25, £50, £75 and £100 Format Digital only, delivered by email. No physical card is posted. Delivery Sent by email once your order is paid Send direct to recipient Optional, with recipient name and a message up to 200 characters Validity 12 months from the date of purchase Fees None. No processing fee and no deduction from an unused balance. Part-spent balance Stays on the card until spent or expired Use with discount codes Yes, a gift card counts as payment rather than a discount Spend it on Anything on pasta.kitchen, other than another gift card Refunds Gift cards cannot be returned or exchanged for cash VAT No VAT on the card itself. UK VAT is included in the price of whatever it is spent on.