This video is a detailed guide to different types of pasta shapes and how to cook and pair them with various sauces. It covers a wide range of pasta varieties, including spaghetti, fettuccine, angel hair, lasagna, bucatini, mafaldine, tagliatelle, pappardelle, acini de pepe, orzo, cavatelli, gnocchi, ravioli, fusili, farfalle, and cavatappi. The video explains the characteristics of each pasta shape, their ideal pairings, and showcases some delicious pasta dishes.
1. There are over 300 shapes of pasta today.
2. All pasta can be categorized into three main types based on their shape: long, short, and pastina.
3. Long pasta includes noodles like spaghetti, fettuccine, angel hair, and bucatini.
4. Short pasta includes noodles like orzo, pappardelle, gomiti, gnocchi, ravioli, farfalle, and rigatoni.
5. Pastina includes small grain size pasta like mafaldine, talia tell, and pacini de pepe.
6. The color of pasta gets lighter and it gets a little engorged from taking on the water during cooking.
7. Mafaldine is one of the longest noodles commercially available.
8. Talia tell is a long pasta noodle that's similar to fettuccine.
9. Pacini de Pepe is a type of pastina that is kind of like little balls or grains.
10. Orzo is a short pasta that sometimes lumped in with pastina.
11. Gomi tea is a short Hollow Half Moon shaped pasta.
12. Gnocchi gnocchi is a short pasta that is sort of shaped like a shell.
13. Ravioli is a short stuffed pasta that can have a variety of fillings.
14. Fusili fusili is a spiral or Corkscrew shaped pasta.
15. Farfalle farfalle means butterflies in Italian and is also commonly referred to as bowtie pasta.
16. Cavatappi cavatappi is a short s-shaped pasta that looks like a corkscrew.
17. Orequette orequette is a contemporary noodle shaped like a small ear.
18. Penne penne is a short tubular pasta that is shaped like a ring.
19. Rigatoni rigatoni are short wide tubes of pasta that are always ridged on the outside but smooth on the inside.
20. Shells shells are a type of pasta that's shaped like a conch shell.