Hi friends, reddit family and pasta enthousiasts.
I am making pasta in my home kitchen for a while now.
A lot of people I know ask me all the time when I start selling the pasta I make.
I live in Holland and i want to know how can i dry my pasta to sell it as dry pasta?
And even. how can I sell my fresh pasta.
is only sealing enough or better in the freezer?
Any hints, tricks and tips are very, very welcome !
by Left-Potato5716
7 Comments
The trick to drying any pasta is low temperature and high humidity; so it dries slowly.
That said, I can’t give specifics.
You can sell fresh pasta refrigerated or frozen. You won’t be able to properly dry it without the right conditions. It will become brittle and break. People will tell you, “oh, I nest it on a tea towel!” or “I hang it from a hangar!” but none of these will work at scale to sell. To properly dry pasta, you need a commercial extruder and dryer. The smallest dryer will dry 100 pounds of pasta at a time. Your extruder would need to be big enough to extrude 100 pounds quickly enough to fill that dryer. A little countertop machine won’t work. I have a TRD110 and it can do 80 pounds an hour, which would still be 3 batches of pasta mixed and extruded.
To get pro quality dry pasta, you need a machine to do the curing process. It controls temperature and humidity. Almost impossible to replicate without it. Alex the french guy has a series on youtube where he attempts to do it.
Thanks alot ! This helps so much
Amazing! This helps a lot !
This might not be helpful but u could source a similar one in your country. Here is the link for an industrial oem manufacturer in China.
https://m.made-in-china.com/product/Industrial-Fruit-Dehydrator-Meat-Pasta-Dough-Dryer-2047626605.html
You should see the Dry pasta serie videos of the YouTuber “Alex”. He has a scientific approach and tried to recreate the system see in a pasta factory in Italy. The short answer is that is nearly impossibile in an home setting.