Making Pasta With the Pasta Grannies

[weinoo]

Someone in another thread was asking about making orecchiette. I like these videos (but since I have pretty easy access to good, fresh, handmade pasta, would never think of making them at home).

 

 

 

Edited June 19, 2021 by weinoo (log)

[heidih]

They are great examples of the ease with which the experienced ladies use feel . The speed!   Its like they could do it blind folded. Thanks for the reminder. My great grandma was like that.

[kayb]

That's the way my grandmother used to peel and chop potatoes. I swear her hands were a blur.

 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

I love Pasta Grannies as well as other you-tube pasta instructions.   Orecchiette have never been a goal, but there are many worth pursuing.   For the fun perhaps more than needing to get dinner in the table.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

19 minutes ago, kayb said:

That's the way my grandmother used to peel and chop potatoes. I swear her hands were a blur.

 

Practice puts us on automatic pilot!

[&roid]

There’s nothing quite as satisfying as that feeling of flow, absolutely no conscious thought or effort going in to what you’re doing. 

[Franci]

Despite being from Puglia my orecchiette skills are mediocre. It takes a lot of practice to make something acceptable, because it’s all in how you hold the knife, the angle and the pressure exercised. They need to come uniform, thin, no holes, not super thick hedges. I often cheat and use a cavatelli machine (on the flat side, no ridges) and open one by one to get something similar to strascinati. This seems tedious but I can assure you it is still less tedious than trying to make 4 people portions when you don’t have the hand for it. I learned to make acceptable orecchiette when I went to university and I wanted the fresh taste. Nowadays you can buy packaged fresh orecchiette in the refrigerated section of any supermarket in Italy. Still not as good as the properly made one.