How is pasta made? ?

Question

Not how to cook it. How wheat is made into the hard stuff that you will put into the pot to boil.

Answer 1

howitsmade.com

Answer 2

Hi David,

Typical handmade Italian pasta is made with:

* Flour (plain/general purpose or ideally, super-thin 'type zero')

* Eggs (one per person portion)

* A little salt.

The process is, for 2 people for example:

* Make a 'bowl' out of flour on a worktop using your fingers

* Crack in 2 eggs

* Cover each yolk in salt

* Whisk eggs within this bowl, carefully, using a fork

* When mixed, gradually tip in the sides, mixing in flour

* When done as much as you can without spilling egg out of the bowl, remove excess flour walls and mix eggs and flour with your hands.

* When non-sticky, create dough ball, flatten and repeatedly 'flatten and fold' with your hands.

* After few mins, when small air holes/dimples appear, leave dough ball to stand for 5 mins.

* Roll flat (10 mins to lose stretchiness), right down to 1mm thickness, then make pasta shapes (i.e. chop into tagliatelle strips).

If that's in any way not obvious, and you're looking to make pasta yourself David, I have a video version of this online at http://www.pasta-recipes-made-easy.com/h... (also on that page is a link to a written picture guide of the same).

(Obviously, commercially made pasta follows roughly the same process, but this is carried out by huge automated machines, which produce/cut many of the shapes that are difficult to make at home.)

Answer 3

i make my own, you can use regular flour but semolina is best, mix in a food processor the flour , egg, oil& water then you can roll it out on a flour dusted surface or I have a pasta machine which is hand cranked, & it gradually thins the thickness.