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12-18-2010, 09:25 AM
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I'm looking to buy a pasta maker for home use.
Is it worth all that effort to make fresh spaghetti to eat?
What do you guys prefer? Dried pasta or fresh pasta?
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12-18-2010, 09:27 AM
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Fresh pasta is alway good =) Posted via RS Mobile | |
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12-18-2010, 10:51 AM
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fresh
egg + flour + salt
1/8 of the cooking time
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12-18-2010, 11:06 AM
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Nothing wrong with dry of course fresh is preferred.
Cooking time is a moot point because you hve to spend more time making the pasta
Also when u buy a pasta maker u can make ravioli, tagliatelle, pappaedelle, etc... Posted via RS Mobile | |
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12-18-2010, 11:10 AM
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12-18-2010, 12:16 PM
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Dry. Personally I hate working with flour, shit gets everywhere.
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12-18-2010, 01:47 PM
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Personally, I prefer dried pasta because you can get that "al dente" texture that you cannot properly accomplish with fresh pasta. But in the end, it really depends on the way that you are preparing the pasta.
Dry pasta can hold up to heartier, thicker sauces whereas fresh pastas are more suitable for lighter & creamier sauces.
At the same time, you can incorporate a lot more flavour into fresh pasta. I think that pasta's like ravioli and pappardelle are best fresh but I like my linguine/fettucine/spaghetti dry.
You can't really say that one is better than the other because they both have their pro's and con's. It's just personal preference.
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12-18-2010, 02:21 PM
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I cook a lot and I've a pasta hang cranked machine.
pros: fresh pasta is just off the hook, it's night and day in comparison. making real ravioli is just going to blow your minds away.
cons: it's really messy and it takes about 4 times as long to make and get it done. you really have to have a passion for it and have the time to roll the dough.
It's like making fresh spring rolls versus getting them yourself from T&T. Fresh tastes better but it's twice and long but sometimes you just want something quick.
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12-18-2010, 06:20 PM
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Fresh pasta all the way!!
It's just shorter cooking time.
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12-19-2010, 04:16 PM
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can i make fresh pasta without eggs?
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12-19-2010, 05:31 PM
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You really need eggs to make pasta to bind together.
I don't know if there is an substitute for eggs unless you can search it up.
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12-19-2010, 06:42 PM
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Dried or fresh definitely depends on the type of pasta. Something like ravioli would be beautiful with fresh pasta but most of the shaped pasta like penne, etc. I actually prefer the texture from dried, not to mention it's a million times less work. While fresh pasta from your pastamaker is a nice party trick when you have people over, I can think of a lot of different things I could buy for my kitchen and use the money and space I would spend on the pastamaker.
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Originally Posted by Amuse  can i make fresh pasta without eggs? | I've seen a few recipes online but have yet to try them.
What kind of pasta did you want to make?
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12-22-2010, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by aznrsx1979 I've seen a few recipes online but have yet to try them.
What kind of pasta did you want to make? | Spaghetti
I bought a Marcato 150 hand crank pasta maker.
It seems like it's going to be fun making spaghetti from this machine.
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12-22-2010, 11:27 PM
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different pastas and sauces have different applications.
you can be a yuppie foodie and harp about how amazing fresh pasta is, but some dishes get very sloppy with fresh pasta. ravioli and the like are great fresh because they are essentially fresh pasta dumplings. obviously they would be miles better fresh. but a lot of folks, myself included are pretty anal about al dente. i hate that soft mushy crap, so that is a kicker for me.
and i'm chinese, pasta is about convenience for me. i get my red sauce from an italian family who harvests and jars up their tomatoes every year. i got jars of sauce from '96, seriously.
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12-30-2010, 08:27 AM
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For most basic noodle pasta dishes like spaghetti/fettucine etc. dried pasta is usually preferable over fresh due to the texture difference, even by traditonalists.
For raviolis and such fresh is preferred.
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12-30-2010, 08:40 AM
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The only time I'd go to the trouble to make fresh pasta would be if I was making a special dinner/having guests over for dinner. There's no way I could find the time to make fresh pasta on normal week nights.
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12-30-2010, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Amuse can i make fresh pasta without eggs? | There's several egg replacers available, check out the organic aisle at super store (it will be near the gluten free section) and the various organic stores such as Planet Organic (their egg replace is also near their Gluten Free section).
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