Picking The Right Pasta For Every Sauce | Epicurious
Pro chef Adrienne Cheatham returns to Epicurious to break down which pasta best complements the sauce of any recipe. From the tiny dimpled surface of orecchiette and rice-like orzo to long layered sheets of lasagna, learn when, why, and how to pick the right pasta your next time in the kitchen.
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Director: Cory Cavin
Director of Photography: Jeremy Harris
Editor: Boris Khaykin
Host and Expert: Adrienne Cheatham
Director of Culinary Production: Kelly Janke
Coordinating Producer: Tommy Werner
Culinary Producer: Kat Boytsova
Line Producer: Jen McGinity
Associate Producer: Michael Cascio
Production Manager: Janine Dispensa
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Camera Operator: Jake Robbins
Audio: Rachel Suffian
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Hair & Make Up: Nicole Vidro
Culinary Assistant: Asnia Akhtar, Malin Hillemann
Research Director: Ryan Harrington
Copy and Recipe Editor: Vivian Jao, Liz Tarpy
Post Production Supervisor: Stephanie Cardone
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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0:00 Pasta Categories
0:47 Spaghetti
1:33 Fettuccine
2:19 Angel Hair
2:54 A Note On Cooking Pasta
3:19 Lasagna
4:09 Bucatini
5:02 Mafaldine
5:56 Tagliatelle
7:10 Pappardelle
7:46 Acini di Pepe
8:53 Orzo
9:48 Gomiti
10:37 Gnocchi
12:07 Ravioli
13:20 Fusilli
14:05 Farfalle
15:04 Cavatappi
16:05 Orecchiette
16:57 Paccheri
17:54 Penne
18:31 Rigatoni
19:18 Shells
20:11 It’s Pasta Time
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Pasta and noodles are not interchangeable. As an American, there is a very clear distinction between “pasta” and “noodles”, at least in my part of the country. Pasta is Italian, so like all the things showed in this video. Noodles are Asian, so like ramen and lomain.
Where was linguine
Orzo looks like rice with tumeric
Thanks
Orecchhiette and Bolognese. Yall thank me later
Gnocca has another meaning if you know
Oh i m in LOVE
I reeeaaaally need that Paccheri 😏😍🔥🥵🌶
I would have thought the different categories would have been dried, fresh and filled.
She’s over here being all educated and then uses a spoon you roll? Sad
Lost it when she said 10 inches 💀
Where is the best place to buy some of these pastas with the unusual shapes?
Terrible pronunciation of the pasta shapes. Then uses a spoon!!!👎🏻
fettuccine alfredo is not an italian dish. it's as american as spaghetti and meatballs
5:17 How is that possibly ten inches?? 🤣
17:56 i dissociated
Unless she's an absolute miniature human being there's no way that noodle was only 10 inches…
Hehehe @5:16
Gnocchi is my favorite
what's with the pronunciation? )))) poor Italians watching this video)))
Excellent pasta presentation & gorgeous 😍
i am asian, but i dont like rice, i guess i can switch to orzo, lol
Out of all the pasta shapes. Angel hair and spaghetti are the worst. With the all the other options i see no reason to ever touch spaghetti again unless its given to me or im getting paid to eat it
Bucatini deserves a much looser sauce. When you mix them in the pan, it actually sucks in the liquid in sort of a capillary action.
PLEASE USE THE METRIC SYSTEM. NO ONE CARES WHAT A GALLON IS!
Why is Mariah Carey teaching us about pasta?
Thanks for such great videos.
I want a big guide on edible flowers and which flowers and how they r used in dishes around the world ❤
There are so many wrong explanations!!!! You need to learn very well before teaching!! So disappointed
I have never heard tagliatelle pronounced like that …
Well dang I need to re-up
Take me to the store NOWWWW
18:31 @Epicurious about "rigatoni": the pasta initially shown raw is actually "tortiglioni", which are slightly smaller and have helical ridges, while proper rigatoni have straight ridges and are generally bigger.
Anyway, at 18:45, as for magic, the Gricia pasta dish presented has real rigatoni in it (you can easily see the difference in the ridges' shape) lol
It's a Mario time
i wonder if Vincenzo's Plate have watched this and got triggered many times due to butchered Italian words by an American.
I love watching Epicurious videos but I keep cringing every single time she mispronounces the different names of the pasta. 😖Please pronounce them as intended and with an Italian accent. Grazie!
I love how all of the dishes are fairly traditional and then for the cavatappi they went with crushed hot Cheetos.
love the vid but calling it 'noodles' is not it
Thanks much
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Great video, but I am quite disappointed you didn't include the bicycle shape 🙁
What is the difference between fusilli and rotini, though? Is rotini like the foreign name of fusilli? Or if the fusilli is cooked, is it called a rotini? My confusion is as screwed as a fusilli
This video is a lie, fusilli is the best for everything!