“Forkability,” “sauceability,” “toothsinkability” – do these words mean anything to you?
For one podcaster and food-based inventor, these were the key ingredients in a three-year year pursuit for pasta perfection.
Dan Pashman, food connoisseur and host of The Sporkful podcast, created Cascatelli (“waterfalls” in Italian), drawing inspiration from the classic pasta shapes of pipe-like bucatini and ruffled malfade. Pasta company Sfoglini, which produces the pasta in their Hudson Valley, NY pasta factory, describes Cascatelli as half-tube troughs with twin ruffles for holding sauce and right angles for resistance to bite from all angles.
It’s this unique shape that, Sfoglini claims, delivers maximum “forkability” (how easy it is to get the pasta on the fork and keep it there), sauceability (how well the pasta shape holds sauce), and “toothsinkability” (how satisfying it is to bite into).
Pashman’s quest for the perfect pasta was recently documented on The Sporkful’s “Mission: ImPASTABLE” series.
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