Easy, quick, fun & delicious- To Hell with Barilla- Make Your Own!

[stlsaxman]

It's good and good for you!

[stonecutter357]

1. I posted the some link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023733292

[BillyRibs]

2. I'm going to take this opportunity,

to order the new one for My Kitchen aid stand Mixer. BTW I wrote to the Barilla web site and told Guido to go Pound sand!

[MADem]

3. It's not all that easy, and there's that egg in it (which isn't in dried pasta)...

That said, if you have time and the will to do that, more power to you.

It's not the only solution though--there are plenty of others. People are habituated to buy that Barilla crap because they buy those stupid, softly lit commercials. You aren't paying for "special" pasta when you grab that dark blue box--you are paying for the frigging commercial.

The more important lesson here is that not only is Barilla bigoted, they are NOT ALL THAT GOOD. I lived in Italy for years, I saw it on supermart shelves, but never -- ever -- in the homes of good cooks. And they did use dried pasta, but not that crap.


If you want Italian pasta, buy DeCecco. If you want American pasta, buy Ronzoni, Prince, Meuller's....there are a host of others that do a decent job making a very nice, high quality product.

If you want a pasta that will not bump up your blood sugar and put you in a pasta coma, buy Dreamfields--it's great for diabetics and tastes like Neapolitan pasta.

No need to "toil" to tell Barilla that you think they suck. Take the easy route, if you'd like, and enjoy!

Prince spaghetti, then:

and NOW!

[stlsaxman]

4. there is egg in all pasta, save, maybe Ramen...

Prince Spaghetti Day! never seen those... beautiful!

on edit- okay, there IS eggless pasta... oops!

[MADem]

7. No. Not in dried commercial pasta, in many--most, really-- cases.

They skip it! Wheat and water--nothing more.

Example: http://www.dececcousa.com/DeCecco-way/?Pagina_Mondo=4

De Cecco has the exclusive ownership of a source of mountain spring water, located right next to the factory. Even if every pasta factory had its own spring, only few would knead the dough with water around 10°C. Such low temperature is essential to “creating” highly consistent dough, able to hold perfectly while cooking. Mixing coarse flour with cold water is not easy: you need savvy kneaders, who are true masters in preparing different mixtures of dough, and give life to more than 160 pasta types. Just think of it: only spring water and fresh flour. Few products can be so simple and yet so good

If you buy a dried "egg" noodle, it's got egg in it, but most dried pasta on the shelves does not have egg. It's the reason it stays stable for so long.

[RebelOne]

5. Easy? You must be kidding.

That's a lot of work. I do not have a pasta maker and do not intend to buy one. I can buy a box of pasta at my local Kroger for about $1.

[DeSwiss]

6. Not Barilla I hope......

Pasta firm Barilla boycotted over 'classic family' remarks
Chairman Guido Barilla causes outrage in Italy after saying he would not consider using a gay family to advertise his products

theguardian.com, Thursday 26 September 2013 12.36 EDT


[font size=1]Guido Barilla is accused by Aurelio Mancuso, chairman of Equality
Italia, of being deliberately provocative. Photograph: Frank
Augsteinb/AP[/font]

Gay rights activists in Italy have launched a boycott of the world's leading pasta maker after its chairman said he would only portray the "classic family" in his advertisements and, if people objected to that, they should feel free to eat a different kind of pasta.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/pasta-firm-barilla-boycott-gay

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