Actually also the chemistry of pasta is quite interesting. During the cooking certain compounds change at a particular temperature. That's why you always should drop the pasta inside hot water and not in cold one waiting it to boil.
3:45 Yes it is. Pasta secca is the dish you make normally, but pasta fresca is usually reserved or more special occasions (e.g. Sundays or holidays.) This is beacause you can buy pasta secca whenever and eat it whenever, but pasta fresca doesn't last for long so you have to plan when to buy it.
Grew up in an Italian family. Big family, big holiday meals. Several sheet pans of fresh handmade ravioli with 3 italian cheeses, with fresh sauce from roma tomatoes. My mother was fond of rigatoni, I ate it many many nights for dinner as a kid. Great video about different kinds of pasta, learned a few things i didn't know.
Hey, wait a minute! Professor Dave's last name makes him flour?! That's awesome! All kidding aside, there can't be a better way to teach a new language than by teaching it through food and cooking. Brilliant, Professor Dave! Just brilliant!
Great video and thank you for giving me a new understanding about pasta. In return, I would like to share something might be new to you: Like spaghetti being quintessential in America, macaroni (in chinese: 通心粉 or 通心面) has also mysteriously become quintessential in areas with large Chinese populations open to Western cultural influence. Instead of going into some Italian restaurants, you can find macaroni commonly served in the breakfast menu of local restaurants and even fast food restaurants chain (although the recipes of those dishes are highly localized).
Bravissimo professore! Specialmente la storia della pasta: sempre ben documentato e divertente. I suoi video sono un' antidoto contro le sciocchezze che girano su Internet. E' un piacere seguirla, grazie mille!
@6:15 Anyone curious about this read Alberto Grandi and Luca Cesari's books on Italian cuisine. Spaghetti is the default pasta in the US because its popularity in Napoli was brought here. It was eaten plain, by hand, on the street.
Professor Dave, I am a long time fan of your work, and I must say that it's remarkable how you can make any subject informative yet fun and functional. From every subject ranging chemistry to things like pasta, you are a well informed man in many areas, in a staggering sense. I do have one question if you aren't pressed for time, that being how do you do it? Do you research after you decide on a subject, or are you just this well educated and need only cursory sourcing for the plethora of knowledge you behold? With respect, August.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Oh I see! That makes a lot of sense. Even so, you do write quite a few yourself it would seem, impressive either way. I love your presentation and no-nonsense approach to subject matter. Very refreshing as well as easy to digest. Thanks for the reply Professor, have a wonderful day/night sir.
An interesting fact is that in south italy (especially sicily) penne without grooves are more popular (especially among older folks) because they require less sauce.
Hello Prof Dave, I’m Italian and I don’t know that verb at 1:04 “Maccare” , I couldn’t find it on Google, Wikipedia or Italian dictionary on line! I suspect you mean “Ammaccare” that means exactly what you say. Lastly that guy eating pasta at 0:08, uugghh that’s overcooked into what we call “mappazza” a block of inedible food, not a good way to start talking of some delicious food. Still appreciate a lot the effort to dispel that notion of pasta = Chinese noodles therefore pasta from China.
6:27 Yeah, that is weird. In Germany, the main perception of pasta is also spaghetti. In France, however, I think it's mainly tagliatelle. At least those are the ones I see most often per country.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Fun fact: here in Veneto you won't hear people asking for Lasagne in a restaurant. We use instead the term "Pasticcio" which is a funny name since it is the equivalent of "messy" in english
I have purchases rigatoni and ziti in the USA, and they are different. The rigatoni is what Prof. Dave described in the video, but the ziti are longer thinner tubes with a smooth surface (no groves).
I select pasta after what sauce (ragu or meat) I want to eat, I do like spaghetti bolognaise but I think there is better pasta to use for bolognaise like Tagliatelle, and I agree with you that it is a shame that just spaghetti became a bit to popular in America and other parts of Europe so it start to find the other pasta.
As a person who loves cooking, Fussili pasta has become my favorite, while Farfalle is the one I run away from. Farfalle takes so long to boil to the right consistency, its too time consuming and almost always set to fail.
Yeah, the Marco Polo story never made any sense to me, especially since the noodles found in East Asian cuisine are so obviously different from traditional Italian varieties.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
I would say Spaghetti, Penne, Spiels, bowties (farfalle) and shells are the most popular pasta in the UK. So I was confused when Americans called Pasta: noodles because most of the pasta I eat doesn't look like noodles but it makes sense if Americans are mostly eating spaghetti (which looks like noodles) that they would say noodles instead of pasta.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Ty for that! I enjoyed my fusilli while watching this. Penne Rigate is my favorite. I actually don't like spaghetti very much.. idk why it's so popular here in the states... I hate how it feels in my mouth. It's weird lol
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Probably because someone was a grain farmer or merchant in his ancestry. A lot of surnames in Europe are either based on jobs (like Smith, meaning fabricator), the given name of an ancestor (like Johnson meaning Son of John), or geographical location where your family is from.
IDk how I feel about the accents. Good to respect the language/culture but also seems unnecessary. Either way, good on you Dave and cool vid EDIT: Dave has informed me of his intents, I'm sorry if my comment makes you mad or something.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
In Assamese language pasta means 5 things, so whenever I bring pasta to town from city and say my grandmother to make it she say' oh 5 things or 10 things' n I couldn't control my laughter🤣
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Ortzo looks alot like ptitim. ptitim (or isreali cooscoos) where invented in isreal in the 60s as a locly made replacement for rice because in this time isreal was really poor so the government had food sanction. Today is a very popular carb side in isreal made like rice(but more of a ratio of 1.25 water -1 carb than rice 2-1) but we add chicken Boolean power into it. But also it's can be made whit other stuff and you can kinda make whit that a easy risotto if you know what you are doing
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
Italian food: 🤢 Chinese Food: 😍 The Chinese food is so much better! They use so much more spices and they even make their food extra spicy if you like it spicy! The flavours are so much better than the Italian food! The only thing that Italian food has better is the pasta and that's it! Other than the pasta Italian food has nothing else.
@@Sammy-34079 no thats hardly wrong and europian cusines use less spiceses in general because food dont go bad as fast there because of the lower temperatures
