Poll will be coming eventually, be patient (a lot of options on it).
Yes, I know there’s more than 20, but putting more than that on here seemed like overkill, so I figured I’d just go with the ones (I’m betting) most have heard of.
If you don’t know what a noodle looks like, just Google it…chances are it will look familiar to you, even if you don’t know it by name.
My go to dry pasta is linguine, and occasionally penne. I also use cavatappifor mac & cheese and a regional dish known in New England as American Chop Suey, which is really a macaroni in tomato meat sauce.
Hey! Where’s the pappardelle? They’re my favorite. (That didn’t stop me from voting for all my other favorites. Pasta is my favorite food, although now I only eat it in moderation.)
Oddly, the one type of pasta I actively dislike is spaghetti. It’s probably all in my head, but I swear they make tomato sauce feel greasy. I also don’t like farfalle, but that’s usually because they’re very dense and doughy due to the shape itself.
Assuming that Ritoni = Rotini. By ‘Macaroni’ did you mean the elbow shape? Because that can cover an awful lot of types of pasta as an umbrella term.
Unless it’s under a different name, I don’t see Ditali here, and that’s definitely a favorite, especially because it’s so easy to pack in bottles with a sauce for lunch.
Nothing beats spaghetti as an all rounder. Although I adore a good bit of lasagne - when cooked in a certain way it’s a little bit crispy at the edges. Gorgeous.
I have always thought Farfalle are adorable and they’re my favorite shape, but the ones I use most are rotini, penne, and regular old spaghetti. When the kids were small, I used shapes more often than spaghetti, since they could spear it and eat it better, and sort of stuck with that for a long time.
If cooking for myself? Angel hair, the thinner the better. Next: bow ties! Third: small shells, for making cold pasta salad. Cooking for the family, it’s usually spirals or plain old 'psgetti. Lasagna on rare occasions. I don’t like big thick hunks of pasta. That’s good for filling up the empty stomaches of the young and the undiscriminating.