the decline of tagliatele

[Herbsman.]

whats the crack, how come good long thick wide tagliatele is so uncommon, but other types of pasta are so common that thhey get sold for half price just to get them off the shelves quicker. surely the fact that this wonderful stuff goes best with one of the nations favourite sauces, means it should be the most popular.

 

[strung out]

i quite like it too. bring it back

 

[spanglechick]

it takes up more shelf space by volume than other pastas.

 

[strung out]

i often work out the volume of dry food goods, relative to similar items when i'm doing my shopping

 

[Herbsman.]

it takes up more shelf space by volume than other pastas.

that makes perfect sense and could explain why spaghetti is so popular. no pasta could be more space-efficient than spaghetti, unless they made a special triangular spaghetti that fitted together with no gaps

then again waitrose sell straight 'tagliatele' (thats more like linguine). if all tagliatele was sold flat and straight like spaghetti is, instead of curled up into balls, surely it wouldnt take up much more space than spagetti!!!!

 

[Vintage Paw]

I find it harder to eat. Supermarkets are pandering to my whims.

 

[Y_I_Otter]

Tag's a piece of piss to make at home, no fancy-schmancy pasta machine needed. You make the dough, roll it out, cut it with an ordinary kitchen knife and a few minutes later you're eating it.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Great thread title

 

[Herbsman.]

Tag's a piece of piss to make at home, no fancy-schmancy pasta machine needed. You make the dough, roll it out, cut it with an ordinary kitchen knife and a few minutes later you're eating it.

 

[cesare]

Tag's a piece of piss to make at home, no fancy-schmancy pasta machine needed. You make the dough, roll it out, cut it with an ordinary kitchen knife and a few minutes later you're eating it.

I'm so going to do this if I get pissed off about tagliatelle. Durum wheat, that's easy and cheap to obtain right? Stocked in my local shop right next to a package of the ready made stuff?

 

[Xanadu]

One thing that pisses me off - the lack of good dried egg pasta. You can get the fresh stuff, but I want some to keep in my cupboard, that will last as long as I need, and that I can use only as much as I want to.

M&S used to have some amazing dried egg pasta, but they don't have it anymore

 

[williammartin]

I make my own.

 

[Y_I_Otter]

I deliberately make way more than I'm going to need. It dries overnight on dowels placed between the backs of two chairs. Then you just bag it and it's there anytime you need some.

 

[8115]

Ooooh. I'm going to have a go at making my own next week. Yum.

 

[Sunray]

Just buy linguini and pretend its slightly wider.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I prefer pasta I can eat with just a fork. I've been known to chop spaghetti up with scissors to achieve this aim.

 

[Diamond]

If it gets stuck together after you drain it, it forms really nasty solid clumpy conglomerations of pasta.

 

[strung out]

Just buy linguini and pretend its slightly wider.

yes, i often pretend that one foodstuff is another

 

[Sunray]

Very little difference, both pasta made from wheat just one is wider (perhaps longer) than the other. Tastes exactly the same.

 

[strung out]

taste isn't everything

 

[teuchter]

One of the issues with tagliatele is that you don't have very fine-grained control over the amount you take out of the bag because it tends to come in big clumps rather than lots of small pieces like other pasta.

Personally I am a fan of the multicoloured tagliatele available in some but not all shops.

 

[strung out]

anyway, i don't know why people don't just buy straight tagliatelle. saves room and you can measure out exactly how much you want

 

[teuchter]

Where can one buy straight tagliatele?

 

[strung out]

supermarkets and places

 

[weltweit]

Tagliatelle Carbonara is one of my favourite dishes.

Boring I am told, but I like it!

 

[UnderOpenSky]

The king of pasta shapes.

The only advantage I can see to flat pasta like spaghetti and tagliatele is you can fit more in the pan when camping.

 

[strung out]

not boring. nice

though i don't eat carbonara anymore

 

[teuchter]

supermarkets and places

I see

 

[Herbsman.]

Just buy linguini and pretend its slightly wider.

pffff lol

If it gets stuck together after you drain it, it forms really nasty solid clumpy conglomerations of pasta.

thats why you stir pasta while its cooking

 

[Herbsman.]

Tag's a piece of piss to make at home, no fancy-schmancy pasta machine needed. You make the dough, roll it out, cut it with an ordinary kitchen knife and a few minutes later you're eating it.

Well, I finally tried this.

Fucked it up the first time - too thick & cooked for too long. Yuck.

2nd time rolled really thin & boiled for 2 minutes before mixing with some sauteed brocolli, cabbage & courgette with loads of pepper, garlic, parmesan & butter. TOP NOSH.

I will never eat dried again