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Bronze cutting is slower (so less efficient) but being slower make the pasta more “rough” and not smooth. This makes sauce stick more to it

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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I see… But wouldn’t that only effect the ends? Or does it start as a sheet and get cut into strips like fettuccine? But that would still only be the edges, right? What about something like linguine with a rounder cross-section?

I’m just not picturing it

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- Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Pasta is extruded out of what’s called a die: 1000186606
  
  Normally this die is PTFE-coated on the inside to minimize friction, so they can run the machine faster and therefore make more money. This results in smooth surface pasta. In recent years they figuered out they can charge extra for pasta that that was made on a die without PTFE coating, because there is a myth that rough pasta holds more sauce (it doesn’t). This is marketed as “bronze cut” because traditionally the dies are made of bronze I guess
  
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  - wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Ohhh, so that’s the part that’s made of bronze. That makes more sense. It threw me off that it’s called “bronze cut” and not “bronze extruded” but I get it now
    
    because there is a myth that rough pasta holds more sauce
    
    I don’t know, the Italian in this thread seems to approve of bronze-cut pasta. Not sure if the opinion of a German overrides that… (I jest, I have German grandparents)
    
    they figured out they can charge extra for pasta that that was made on a die without PTFE coating
    
    Honestly, PTFE has other issues though. It’s a forever chemical and can cause birth defects and cancer. For several years it was popular on cooking stuff for its non-stick and anti-scratching properties. I had a couple pans with it myself, and I loved them at the time. But that was before we as a society learned more about PTFE. Like asbestos and cigarettes, it became widely adopted before we knew enough to avoid it.
    
    Aside from PTFE, phenols (like BPA, BPS, and PFAS) are another thing that are really important to avoid, but commonly used in modern manufacturing.
    
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