What’s the deal with this? A cook-book I have refers to a device to make “guitar-style” spaghetti - you put a sheet of fresh pasta against a fretboard-like device and produce flat spaghetti. If you’re buying dry pasta, I understand that you might buy flat rather than round spaghetti. But if you are making it at home doesn’t it always come out flat anyway when you put the sheet through the cutters? Mine does. What am I missing?
Not if you have pasta machine that extrudes it, right? (And isn’t flat spaghetti linguini?)
I’m thinking you’re referring to a “Gitala”, or something like that. I don’t know the correct name, but I know what you’re talking about.
Basically, the thing I saw was not really a fretboard, but a number of thin, parallel suspended wires. The dough was rolled flat, and laid upon the wires. Then, they were pressed from the top, being cut by the wires, and falling beneath them as noodles.
Iron Chef Kobe Masahiko used this device in one of his battles. I look at it and think of egg slicers. You know, the deal you put an egg in, and drop a wire rack on it, and it slices into even pieces.
Here’s an antique “Chitarra”. (scroll down a bit)