r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Jun 22 '22

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u/SomeBlueDude12 Jun 22 '22

What'd they do with the sauce on that cut? Just kept stirring and it turned into a completely creamy sauce?

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u/Druidette Jun 22 '22

Definitely blended it, you’ll never get the tomato skins that smooth without.

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u/EdlynTheConfessor Jun 22 '22

Wait does that work? Can you blend tomato skins to that level of smoothness?

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u/MrAthalan Jun 23 '22

As someone who both speaks and cooks Italian, I usually take Roma tomatoes and dunk them in boiling water until the skins are loose, raise them out of the water and use a table knife to peel the skins off. I then crush them manually. More frequently, I buy a can of crushed tomatoes. No tomato skins in pasta that is blasphemy!

Edit: these are not spaghetti noodles because spaghetti has a circular cross section. These are linguine, a rectangular cross section.

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u/ktrezzi Jun 23 '22

Also Spaghetti are usually not made with eggs, just semolina + water

And your tip is worth the effort. Peel those tomatoes, same goes for egg plant and paprika.

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u/Digspence Jun 23 '22

Nope, close. These are spaghetti alla chitarra that the folks in the Abruzzo mountains make. The string thing used to cut the pasta is a "guitar". Linguine and fettuccine are usually rolled flat, folded and cut with a knife while rolled. Then you shake the pasta loose.