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Not talking about specialty pastas, like flavored or with special ingredients. Just plain pasta (spaghetti, elbows, etc.), made from wheat. Anybody ever experienced any difference in flavor, texture, cooking characteristics, product consistency, or anything?
Does it make any difference if the label says Durum or Semolina or both?
Or is the cheapest pretty much the same as anything?
I never thought there was until someone on this forum recommended DeCecco capellini. I have never had such good angel hair pasta, with great flavor and holds together without clumping.
I agree! I really like the Barilla brand of pasta. The sauce adheres well to it, and I like the texture.
I agree, if it's dried pasta, Barilla is the best I think. I am not real picky about name brands but in pasta, the cheaper ones are not as good somtime and the Barilla is not really that much higher than the store brands.
When I lived in NY, I thought Ronzoni was the best pasta. Ronzoni isn't a regular shelf out here in AZ, so I buy Barilla out here.
I find there's a huge difference between the above brands and, for example, store brands. Store brands have less flavor and are incredibly more starchy, meaning the pasta sticks together more easily.
Not talking about specialty pastas, like flavored or with special ingredients. Just plain pasta (spaghetti, elbows, etc.), made from wheat. Anybody ever experienced any difference in flavor, texture, cooking characteristics, product consistency, or anything?
Does it make any difference if the label says Durum or Semolina or both?
Or is the cheapest pretty much the same as anything?
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A few times, we've bought pasta at Ocean State Job Lots and I swear that it's better than any grocery store name brand I know. Don't ask me the name of the pasta we got at Job Lots -- I have no idea.
The difference is: you know how the pasta you get in the grocery store (be it store brand, Ronzoni, Barilla, whatever...) is shiny? The pasta that I've bought -- and loved -- from Job Lots doesn't have a sheen on it. Maybe the shine that is added to the "regular" stuff makes it prettier, but the non-shiny stuff tastes better, in our opinion.
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