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Radiatori can achieve such a wild sauce to pasta ratio, I love them. Wheels have a good texture too. Hell, shells as well. I might just like structure.

I should probably find and try some cascatelli.

I could do without penne; I think I'd always prefer rigatoni.

Anything with a filling is even better.

I hate angel hair spaghetti

It's always mushy. It's like eating wheat jello with a fork. Can't al dente it without some NASA ass timing. No thanks.

bowtie pasta is good because they're shaped like bowties for tiny businessmen, who have been ground up into the sauce & you are eating them. bowtie pasta is a great expression of the revolutionary sentiment: "eat the rich"

I like rigatoni because they're like penne but big enough to actually get chunky sauce in the middle hole.

I usually use penne for pasta salads even though twists are the the classic for that.

Spaghetti is over-rated. Tagliatelle is better for things you'd use spaghetti for IMO. The egg is nice in there. But if you don't want the egg, tagliatelle and pappardelle are pretty much the same shape.

Not sure if it counts as pasta because of how much of it is potato, but gnocchi are pretty good too.

Now I want to go carb-load

Rotini is incredibly versatile. S tier pasta shape

favorite is spaghetti for most things except sauces where it's all about gnocchi for me

I agree that farfalle are the worst

I don't know how it is called in english, we call it vermicelli and it's a thin spaghetti with very short (around 2 cm) length.

It's very fast to make and doesn't require much camping around the stove.

Top: cavatappi. There is nothing that it doesn't work with.

I used to get gemelli sometimes but since early covid days they never have it at the grocery store anymore

I like elbows

bowties are the clown shoes of the pasta world. the long ones get stuck on my tongue piercing and choke me. the tube ones spill sauce, wasting it and making the messes. the stuffed ones cost more than iPhones. I guess that leaves rotini?

bowties look like little bowties

Best: penne, angel hair pasta cut in half

Worst: all others except rigatoni it's good too

Penne or bust

I like all pasta shapes. Mainly I think the pasta shape has to fit the sauce. Why some shapes seem to fit some sauces better than others, I cannot articulate.

campanelle are the fucking worst

Top: Penne (with the ridges). It seems to be one of the most hated for some reason, but I like how easy it is to cook, it holds most sauces pretty well, and the texture is fun to eat.

Bottom: Risoni. Like, what the fuck even is that shit. If you want pasta, eat pasta. If you want rice, eat rice. None of this weird middle ground bullshit, just fucking commit.

Rigatoni is the best. When I was a kid I could smell the difference between rigatoni boiling and any other pasta.

Rigatoni, Papardelle, Bucatini, sometimes i just buy lasagna sheets and slice them into thick strips. I like stuff that the sauce really sticks to. Orzo makes a nice salad.

Don't care for Penne, Fettucine, even spaghetti when i think about it. Boring but practical, i guess.

Funny story, one time i made my nephew and niece some mac and cheese using Rotelle pasta and now that's the only way the want to eat it. My sister hates me for it lmao, and now i buy a box of that pasta for them on christmas.

favourite: shells, corkscrew and butterfly (or conchiglie, fusilli and farfalle to use their proper names)

least facourite: spaghetti actually

The bowtie pasta has to be made by hand to alleviate the problems you describe. That way the thickness is even so it cooks evenly (pinch the middle firmly once the shape is made) , and you can make them an appropriate size so that the folds can hold onto the sauce you are pairing with it properly. I make them by hand for a treat, and they're delicious with a nice sauce.

Check this out for an example from yours truly

Orzo. Just eat rice at that point, weirdo. Couscous obviously gets a pass, as it's shaped differently from rice.

I fucking hate spaghetti.

top: spaghetti (keyboard accurately suggests the 🤤 emoji)
bottom: idk but farfalle do suck yea
light defence of farfalle tho: the way they're symmetric does make nd brain go brrr when you poke into them with your fork

Does ravioli count???

shells are great because I can scoop up a mouthful at a time

by contrast, penne is just frustrating to eat

s/o to alphabets, the best soup pasta

Favorite: Orecchiette.

Least favorite: Fussili