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...It holds about a drop and a half of sauce, it never cooks evenly, and it's apparantly impervious to fork tines. Whoever invented this horrible excuse for a noodle should be dragged out to the street and shot.
I wouldn't ever touch the stuff, but it comes in a costco 6-pack with this other variety - of which I don't know the name - that's fantastic in every way that bow-tie pasta makes me want to stop eating...permanently.
*Apparantly, the kind I like is called radiatori.
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I agree with all your reasoning. It doesn't cook well, hold sauce or taste good. Blah! It is only good for craft projects, not eating. And even then, it doesn't like glue much.
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As I was reading this thread I thought, "hmmm, now what is it about bowtie pasta that is ringing a bell?" because I couldn't remember really ever using it in a recipe. And then I read MandyM's post and remembered. Some kind of an angel made with little glued bowtie noodles. I can't even remember how it was supposed to be done, but I do remember trying to use a glue gun on those thingies and being SO frustrated that I ended up throwing out that craft project.
(OK, so I'm not the craft queen and it doesn't take that much to get me to that point with any given project--but that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!)
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I'm not a fan of bow tie pasta, either. Not because I can't get it to cook easily (I can), but because I just don't like the way the shape feels in my mouth. Not to mention I'm a fan of noodles you can wind around your fork in huge bites. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Man, it's one of my favorites. I love to combine bow tie pasta with sauteed sun-dried tomatoe-chicken sausages, then toss the combo in olive oil and parmesan cheese. Very yummy. And mine always comes out al dente as well, never a cooking a problem.
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Bow tie pasta is my favorite. It cooks well al dente. You don't have to twirl it. You can easily stab multiple bow ties at once (rotinni, wheels and other round shaped pasta tend to get shoved out and then roll off the plate.) Bow ties also take low volume compared to the round shapes.
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Man, I just miss pasta in general. The dining room here doesn't make very good pasta, and when it does, it's always boring spaghetti or ziti. I want something fun and new, like wheels or those cool twirly kind! I think I should make that sometime this weekend.
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Bowtie pasta isn't my favorite, but it isn't my least favorite. When making pasta for myself at home, I just saute some garlic, and put it on top of the cooked pasta in a small bowl with real parmesean. Usually I use angel hair, but for a shape I like rotini.
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Back when I was really big into instant foods I bought a couple cans of chef boyardee. I remember liking it as a kid the few times I had it. Man was that a mistake. The sauce was so sweet it sickened me. Canned pasta shouldn't be inflicted on anyone over the age of 12.
EDIT - what's this about different types of pasta not tasting good? They basically all taste the same to me, except for a slight difference with whole wheat noodles.
Further EDIT - Prolix, I just got the Tucker Carlson reference. I'm ashamed it took me so long.
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Whoever invented this horrible excuse for a noodle should be dragged out to the street and shot.
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