Its all about the noodles!

I agree with the pasta myths site, but I still like to have loads of sauce with noodles that will hold plenty of it on them. I just answered your other discussion about that (I apparently missed it along the way). Love my sauce!!

I think it's a personal choice. Elic. I STILL LIKE A BUNCH OF SAUCE.

Noodles, like rice, I could care less without the sauce. They taste like glue without the sauce. At least to me. My husband and my brother could eat them without anything, but I think they like the taste of glue and probably enjoyed non-toxic glue as kids.

To me all noodles taste the same they are just shaped differently so I guess I have to go against what the site says or against the popular answer and say the sauce.

Yup. If you start with the wrong pasta, it doesn't matter what sauce you use it's going to taste horrid. If you use good Italian pasta, it doesn't mater what sauce you use, it will be good. It's all about the pasta. I only buy Barilla pasta. As I am not in the States, I don't have the same selection of pastas you guys have. Barilla from Italy is great. Barilla made in the States is garbage, by the way. So if you are in the USA be sure to check were it is manufactured. I only buy pastas imported from Italy. I tried some from Turkie,, but they just don't cut it. The local Israeli ones are so horrid, they make Golden Grain seem good.

I didn’t respond to your original discussion for some unknown reason and if I had I would have agreed with you. I am Italian and I was brought up on pasta and I have always preferred it to be perfectly ‘al dente’ and definitely not with too much sauce in fact one of my favourite ways to have pasta is with just butter and parmesan cheese. I don’t like adding olive oil to the cooking pot either; it doesn’t do the job properly!

Well between you and Rachael Ray you have taught this old dog a few new tricks. I always put some oil in my pasta to keep it from sticking together. I won't any more. Rachael says to put some of the cooking water from the noodles in the sauce to help it to stick to the noodles. Now I know why my noodles would not keep the sauce on it. and that is the reason I never cared much for spaghetti. Mine was always so sauceless. It ended up on the plate. Great discussion by the way

Depends on the sauce, I guess, but then, butter is better. I love buttered noodles.

I like this piece of information here! Too much of everything can make the noodles displeasing to eat. I have enjoyed reading this article here. It makes the facts come true.

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I am not sure which is better, but I do like the noddles.

It both its both !!!! All kidding aside sauce is great and does change the taste of noodles.BUT noodles are made thin thick yes to fill like ravioli and manachotti large shells. Now we even have multi grain and whole wheat noodles which taste sooo much better then the white flour /egg noodles. at least to my family. :) So yes I say the noodle no matter what any site tells me. have a great day

It's the noodles. But if the noodles don't have sauce then do the noodles become boring within their varieties? Deep question.

No not all noodles taste the same. You can get spinach noodles or whole wheat noodles and they make the recipe taste so much yummier than the plain old white noodles. Egg noodles are also good to use.

thats quite a useful site,my kids love to have sauce all over their noodles,i tried the homemade sauce but they like the ones we get in the market.

I think I recall responding to this discussion also. I like noodles but I have to have my sauce also. I understand alot of people really like the pasta taste alot better but the sauce it what makes my noodles taste so much better. I understand what you are saying though.

hi elicbxn oh definitely its all about the noodles to me they have to be barollis pasta plus spaghetti no other brand will do and no not all noodles are alike,they have different composition. barollis has added protein and they are so good, and they also have omega 3 and 6 oils that are needed inour bodies for good health. other noodles do not have these added goodies and they taste it too. no it must be barollis for me and that is really great eating with tomato spaghetti sauce with lots of basil oregano and garlic, lots of garlic and some olive oil too.

Hey Elic! I do everything wrong according to this article! I don't like my pasta al dente, I like it cooked more! I break my spaghetti in half! And I eat pasta with my sauce! I was never really great at following rules anyway! And I was going marry an Italian and we would always fight about the pasta! I hated that it wasn't cooked enough for my taste! And it's so funny because guess what I'm cooking right now! Yup, spaghetti with sauce and fried pork chops! And I already broke the spaghetti in half and will be having my sauce in a big old bowl with some spaghetti in it! My boyfriend laughs at me all the time when I do it!

Pasta and sauce is like cake and frosting. Some people believe that the pasta, like the cake, is just a convenient carrier for the sauce (or frosting). Others think the other way around. Because today's focus is on eating healthier, more emphasis is going to be put on the pasta because it's fat-free unlike the sauces. Go back 50 or 80 years, and I bet the thought process was reversed. Back when life was more labor intensive, more fats would have been needed for energy. Even in today's health-driven society I can dispute that it's the pasta all the time though. And I can do it in one word. Lasagna.

I would agree as I love pasta no matter what and whenever u cook a receipe you should always follow the rules set by the maker not what you introduce to it. So if they say its pasta with the sauce and not the other way round then you should listen to them.