# I've never had fresh pasta. Is it really "all that" compared to boiling dry noodles?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 14, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-had-fresh-pasta-is-it-really-all-that-compared-to-boiling-dry-noodles/493024 "2009-04-14T02:50:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-had-fresh-pasta-is-it-really-all-that-compared-to-boiling-dry-noodles/493024/41 "2009-04-16T14:58:04Z")

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> [@Athena](#):
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> I’ve become more enthralled with [Mark Bittman](http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/) lately. High quality, easy recipes, and not a bit of smarm in him.

_[Spain… On the Road Again](http://www.spainontheroadagain.com/)_ was rather enjoyable. Catch it on PBS if you can.

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-had-fresh-pasta-is-it-really-all-that-compared-to-boiling-dry-noodles/493024/42 "2009-04-16T16:11:44Z")

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> [@salinqmind](#):
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> (drooooollll 😃 ) I’m going to make a version of. this for Mother’s Day!..I’ve had fresh angel hair pasta with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil. It went down WAY too easily, IMO. I once watched Jamie Oliver whip up a batch of noodles on TV, he rolled them out with a rolling pin. So I tried, and BOY HOWDY, was that hard to do! You really need a pasta machine for that, The noodles were good, but too thick for my taste, I think it’s useful to have a pasta recipe in case for some reason you need it and can’t get to a store. (same with flour tortillas, easy to make and very tasty.)

The advantage of a pasta mill is it makes the rolling way easy, and you can get cutting heads for different types of skinny pastas =) With a mill you can choose how thick to make the sheets of pasta.

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