STW forum came good for me the last time I had a question relating to Italian food, so fingers crossed someone can help me with this too.

I’ve got a bit fussy and now only like to eat bronze die pasta, rather than the standard stuff – but the constant supermarket BOGOFs seem to have dried up lately and £2 for 500g is pasta joke (arf arf).

Are there any specialist retailers where I can pick it up cheap, maybe several kilos at a time? Google is not helping me out.

Grazie!

In typical STW fashion of providing a different answer to the question posed, might I recommend wholewheat pasta? It’s really nice, I went from crap > branded > bronze die > wholewheat and never looked back, it’s the real ale of the pasta world (unlike brown rice which I can not get on with).

Brown rice is nice.
STWTFU.

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I do eat wholewheat when I’m trying to be virtuous Cougar, but it doesn’t go quite as well with some of my favourite recipes. Maybe a bit too much flavour of its own.

Thread derailed in 2. Must be a record.

Give it time, it’ll come back on track.

Wow. I’ve learnt something here, I din’t know that there was a difference to my spaghetti depending on whether the machine it was made on was made from metal or plastic.

|doffs cap|

Make your own?

surely must be cheaper, and you can control the ingredients…

I used to eat posh pasta but eventually decided it wasn’t worth the extra cost over ordinary stuff. I think not overcooking is what makes the big difference.

2 quid is expensive for 3 good portions? I think not.

I believe Garofalo past is all bronze die – we buy ours from Costco in bulk…

with pasta , the most important thing to look for is the number of eggs per kg .
the more , the better . 10 is probably the max in fresh pasta .

I din’t know that there was a difference to my spaghetti depending on whether the machine it was made on was made from metal or plastic.

Changes the texture, bronze die is coarser and holds sauce better.

2 quid is expensive for 3 good portions? I think not.

Compared to £1.40 for 8 good portions, yes. But then i’m getting old and looking forward to only being able to afford one bar on the electric fire. So I’m stocking up on thick wooly socks and old overcoats from the charity shop.

😀

I believe Garofalo past is all bronze die – we buy ours from Costco in bulk…

Cheers, I knew we’d get there in the end once we got past the snobbery, inverted snobbery and general irrelevence.

De Cecco is the best of the packet stuff I recon £1.50 to feed four ain’t bad either.

Cheers, I knew we’d get there in the end once we got past the snobbery, inverted snobbery and general irrelevence.

Gah, too late again !
I was hoping at least for a swift inverted snobbery and then a tomfoolery or two 🙁

Recently tried some seeds of change semi-wholewheat when it was on offer and it was great, held sauce like bronze die and much tastier than normal pasta but not as heavy as full wholewheat. Now it’s back up to full price – bastards!

Watching a cooking programe on tv once. Presenter was in a Michelin one star restaurant in Rome. Chef was using De Cecco linguine. If its good enough for a one star restaurant then its ok for me.

A bugger to find though

In true STW faux-heritage stylee I go one step beyond bronze die. I only eat Ti die pasta 🙂

Wholewheat pasta is just wrong. 😕

I think perfectly cooked cheap ass pasta tastes as good as shit cooked perfect pasta.

Anyway, you can buy it in a tin, pre cooked and with free sauce. In hoops, letters or pointlessly small pieces that don’t wrap round your fork.

I used to work in an Italian restaurant and was surprised to hear that in Italy they buy “whatever pasta the shop sells” as there’s “too-a many ladies to-a f*ck-a to make-a de pasta from-a fresh, cazzo”

Screaming back around to inverted snobbery, general mysogyny and racial stereotyping.

And that’s Jenga.

Organic, non-GM, fair trade Jenga, I hope?

No, that would be ridiculous.

Wholemeal, sustainable Jenga only in this yurt.

It is all rather like people saying that Colnagos must have Campag on but in Italy they couldn’t care less if you put Shimano or SRAM on…

I don’t think you can get wholemeal groupsets though 🙂