strozzapreti - not only is it a great shape for holding sauce and fun to eat, it’s got a delightful name: the “priest strangler”
E: typos
It looks sooooo good:
Fusilli. The spiral shape allows the right amount of pasta sauce to stick to it so you get a nice pasta-to-sauce ratio.
that’s like picking a favorite child, and it’s timmy, and penne
Farfalle is the correct answer
It’s the fanciest pasta - always wearing a bow tie.
Whichever one is currently working it’s way into my mouth.
Hey, it’s me, your pasta.
I take it back. This shape sucks.
Cascatelli really is the best shape. I also like rotini
Conchiglie, the medium size of shells.
Pipe rigate for cheese based sauces, fusilli (rigatoni) for tomato based sauces.
Alphabetti Spaghetti
I make no apologies.
Spaghetters
That pillow shape if it’s filled with parmesan.
People like hating on elbow but I think it’s quite nice… cavatappi gives me anxiety. I do also really love a standard flat square ravioli.
Rotini holds lots of whatever sauce plus seems like a great consistency - substantial but not solid
The curly tubes
People can say “penne rigate” or declare not to be Italian without actually writing it
Oh man, my local shop sells these as “makkaroni” and I was so confused, because I knew those to be a different shape. Now I just checked Wikipedia and it literally has a heading like:
“Makkaroni” in Germany
And it says that apparently we refer to any longer, straight, tube-shaped pasta as “makkaroni”. I guess, it’s alright that we don’t use the Italian spelling after all. 🫠
Italian food snobism ruined Italian cuisine
Penne rigate are the opposite of snobism!
Ziti because the sauce gets up in the hole :)
