The best pasta from the supermarket according to Italians

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: the best pasta brand from the supermarket according to Italians.

Pasta: not only can you make terrible mistakes, yes it is quite precise, also eating pasta should only be done in one way. But everything starts with very good pasta. But which pasta from the supermarket is that actually?

When it comes to pasta, we Italians trust blindly. Although the shelves in the supermarket are filled with different brands of pasta, according to most Italians there is only one brand they buy when they need dried pasta. And that is De Cecco.

The ingredients
Famous pasta brands like Grand Italia, Barilla, and De Cecco all use 100% semolina (in Italian semola and in English semolina) from ground durum wheat or hard wheat, so the ingredients are not what makes the difference, but what does?

The pasta cutting machine
The difference lies in the cutting machines with which the pasta is cut. In the De Cecco factory, all types of pasta are cut with bronze cutting machines. These machines give the pasta porosity during cutting, which means that small pores are created on the pasta. And these pores are key for perfect pasta. This way, the pasta absorbs the sauce better and the sauce adheres better to the cooked spaghetti, rigatoni, or farfalle. If the pasta is too smooth, the sauce easily slides off the pasta, and a pasta not wrapped in sauce is a downright nightmare for all Italians (and for you).

100% al dente
This way of cutting pasta also ensures that the indicated cooking time on the packaging is much more consistent than with other pasta brands. So you can now perfectly cook your favorite dried pasta to the second al dente .