There are so many kinds of noodles you may need a guide to pasta ... shapes, they also have a job to do: those shapes have crevices for sauces to sink into. That's why curly noodles such as rotini ...

And while most of the shapes Cutolo recommends are pretty common, there are lots of unconventional pasta shapes that fall ...

But there is a sound reason for choosing certain types of pasta for certain dishes ... type sauce will not sit well with narrow ribbon shapes pastas such as fettucine because the bits of veg ...

My New Year’s resolution is the one I make every year: to try as many new shapes of pasta as possible. Like my own personal carb-based Pokémon, I wish to collect them all. It’ll be tricky to top 2024.

If you’re looking for an extruder-style pasta machine that can make pasta shapes beyond flat noodles, the Philips Viva Collection Pasta and Noodle Maker is a great choice. I would happily buy my ...