10 Pasta Brands Compared

Watch me review and compare 10 different pasta brands. Most of these brands you can buy in regular grocery stores. Which pasta brand is best? I will give a brief review of each one. @italianfoodrecipe

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Hey it’s Marty the pasta guy today I’m going to compare pasta Brands I’m going to review 10 different pasta brands that are mostly grocery store brands but I did bring a crafted pasta with me it’s specialty item but I needed something to use as a benchmark for Perfection

Because I’m going to use a five-star rating system price doesn’t factor in I don’t know how much these are I don’t pay attention to that you kidding me I spend my money like three four bucks at a time I don’t care I don’t claim to be

An expert I am a frequent user and I did work at an Italian imported food store all my years as a kid worked for my aunt every summer uh but then again I may not be any more sophisticated than you but uh that’s the point you know this stuff

Came right out of my pantry I’ve used half of it I you know it’s may as well come out of your pantry I think we’re going to be on the same page that’s what this is about nothing scientific just my opinion mine and my good friend and close business associate Bonito here

Yeah don’t get him started about pasta I’m much more concise let’s start with Rouse Rouse is a really good grocery store brand it’s slow dried and it’s bronze extruded I’ll explain that process slow drying is good not all slow drying is created equal but it is technically well they say it’s slow

Dried but it’s also the bronze Extrusion means that it’s pushed out through in the manufacturing process it’s pushed out through bronze die cuts that create a grain a rough texture on the pasta to where it absorbs Sauce better I would give this Rouse a 4.5 out of five stars

Very good pasta Theo the old standby the Workhorse this is what I grew up with a lot of Italians I know grew up with this and I would give Deo a 3.8 it’s slow dried but it’s not bronze extruded it’s it’s a smooth pasta but it’s it’s very

Good it used to be a specialty brand that you would find only in uh Italian stores but now they stepped up their marketing and they’re everywhere which is great burilla okay this is a uh bronze extruded burilla everybody’s getting into the bronze Extrusion thing because everybody I mean a lot of

Consumers have caught on that yeah that’s good bronze Extrusion so burilla actually got on it so they stepped up their game because burilla a plain burilla po is just like I’d give it maybe a two stars out of five it gets soggy fast it’s just not good but this

Actually is very good this is the Linguini and it’s called the AL bronzo line of burilla pastas and this Linguini is actually good it’s good i’ I’d give it a 4.0 the other Barilla that I have used is the protein pasta and the only reason I use this is because I’m too

Lazy sometime to wait for the 12 13 minutes for Linguini when I make clam sauce and this only takes 4 minutes and so and it also will stay firm unlike regular burilla it’s kind of brown but not whole wheat yuck it’s infused with plant proteins I’ve also enjoyed it with

Garlic and oil I don’t know that I’d waste red sauce on it but it’s okay it it’s okay I I’ll give it like a 3.0 okay this is a a Kroger brand that is Kroger is a grocery store chain and this also is bronze extruded like I said

Everybody’s getting in that game and it says it’s imported from Italy and they say they use good Semolina wheat and all that but any other grocery store brand I I would not even try but this one I thought I’d give it a whirl and see how

It was and it was acceptable you know I give it a a 3.3 and this is a craft pasta this is a rusta caladia Bruto you can find this in some groceries I’m not sure if hope Foods has it but Whole Foods does have some other types of craft pastas that

Are good but this is a really nice brand and I would give this a 5.0 this is a small batch a handcrafted pasta it’s slow dried there’s a taste difference that’s very obvious and texture difference and the other uh specialty pasta is granoro which uh I like I like

Their soup pastas a lot granoro is good I give granoro a 4.5 also Theo Theo you can find in the grocery sometimes it’s really good quality it’s bronze extruded it’s slow dried and these are the orzos that I use for soup and and this I would give this

Up 4.5 I put it up on par with the Grano and this is the cream of the crop as far as grocery store pastas if you can find it in your grocery D Martino is really it’s a fine pasta it tastes like a a crafted pasta so I would give this a

Maybe 4.7 de Martino so here are my scores I’ll post these for you if this helps and that’s my rather unscientific but yet very personal opinion from someone who has eaten pasta every day of his life and still does so maybe that counts for something I hope it helps

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