Best price I've seen this for a while. Min order 3. Max order 6.
Also Barilla-Pasta-Bronzo-Spaghetti-400g same price, mix 1 max 6.
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We will try it next order, but to our tastes Barilla is nice. I'll be pretty happy if this cheaper one is a suitable substitute! Thanks.
Interesting, I haven't tried that one before.
Are you recommended based on price? Or, do you think this is better than Barilla?
Incomparably better.
Cheaper is cherry on top.
Bronze extruded, slow drying and better wheat.
Cucina Matese (which really is La Molisana) is great pasta too.
Both from Gragnano.
Barilla is mass produced and it was good up until late 90’s. At that stage the brand was huge and too big to fail/lose market shares.
+1, so much better. If Barilla was free, I'd still pay the few bucks for this.
@Acopic: Giving away money for free shit?
Have you consider canceling your user account from Ozbargain?
Are you a Chat GPT 2 bot??!
Thank you! Will try it out
Is this for all in the range or just spaghetti?
Thanks Habulla,
Someone here got me into the Cucina matese and it's amazing. But if that Woolworths organic is just as good and always cheaper will grab it next time.
@kulprit: Both amazing, only less variety for macro.
You do need orecchiette for the salsiccia and broccoli pasta.
Have you got a source that Cucina Matese and La Molisana are the same?
I bought Cucina Matese at the last Coles half price sale and my sister was just telling me how good La Molisana is last week. The coincidence is uncanny.
Are you of Italian heritage?
Cucina Matese is Coles home brand with some nice graphic design.
'Incomparably better.
Cheaper is cherry on top.
Bronze extruded, slow drying and better wheat.'
so … while we're Comparing the 'Incomparably better' …
given that spaghetti is typically eaten doused in a flavourful sauce
so it would be unlikely for anyone to have ever eaten two different freshly cooked unsauced strands of different brands of spaghetti side-by-side and then gone 'ah yes I can taste the difference - this one is more …' - can you actually describe a difference in taste based on such a comparison ?
I'm prewarning that sauce-covered comparisons are unlikely to be true comparisons as any flavour of the pasta alone would be way overwhelmed by the sauce instead.
I'm also aware of bronze-extruded roughness as purported to result in more sauce-cling - that's a manufactured texture, not a flavour inherent in the different raw material.
So - flavour of the spaghetti alone tested and shown to be better ?
@Hangryuman: Nobody mentioned taste except yourself.
"Better" in this context is the ingredients used - "better wheat"
@Hangryuman: OMG worst OzB comment I have read this year. You clearly have no idea whatsoever about pasta, sorry.
@Hangryuman: You really can't tell the difference between different pastas? When one pasta has 20% more protein than the other, it changes the flavour and texture significantly.
"Bronze extruded" source?
@liongalahad: You do not need source.
You see it.
Easy as that.
Worlds apart.
You tell/taste straight up: unmistakeable.
Same story with many of the big name brands now, they lost quality and changed/moved manufacturing and still dominate because of marketing and monopoly. Smaller guys with better/cheaper stuff no one wants because no brand so must be worse.
^ this.
La Molisana all the way for supermarket pasta buying.
Totally agree. As an easy rule, the lighter and rougher the pasta the better it will be. I think it means it's dried slower rather than heat dried.
I think rougher means it is extruded through a bronze die compared smooth, which is extruded through a Teflon die. Apparently rough pasta holds sauce better. This is an interesting video and great cooking channel.
Ah interesting, I didn't know that. This is one of the reasons I can't shop at aldi. Their pasta is horrible unless you want 1cm wide fettucini.
@Acopic: Aldi used to have an excellent organic pasta range, but it disappeared sometime during covid. It was very similar to the woollen one linked above
It's an interesting video but its conclusion is it found no evidence to support rough pasta significantly holding sauce better.
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Agreed. Barilla is seriously overrated and this is much better
Thanks.
Haven't tried that before. What size is it? Prefer the thinner size 3
'No comparison, heaps cheaper'
I always love it when people compare things by saying 'no comparison' … ;-)
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The way Amazon packages are treated I'm sure these will arrive in broken pieces.
I've ordered pasta several times in past few years from them, never an issue so far.
You buy spaghetti, you receive angel hair pasta
It's generally been fine for me.
Last time I ordered from Amazon (4 varieties X 3) there were 6 packages -
Never had a problem myself.
Haven't ordered pasta from Amazon since the $1.36 Barilla but all of that arrived in good condition.
Great price but the family only likes angel hair. Any deals on that one?
Nah that is the only good deal right now on Amazon
Harris Farm has about 4 different types for $2.50. I saw a fine one like anglehair, as well as a bigger one that has a tiny hole in the middle (been looking a while for this after Woolies stopped selling Zarrafas brand of it.
Bucatini!
Yes. Seems to be hard to find, well not in the normal supermarkets.
You must be roman
Strange thing, Coles and Woolies no longer stock Barilla Angel Hair, I used to buy them, but haven't found it in supermarket over last six months.
Best pasta
It been there for weeks at that price . Attentions going to take away S&S .
Hence I fired every ac I have at it max for the last time .
ac ?
Spaghettini > Spaghetti
Dont @ me
Spaghettoni>Spaghettini
Both in section area and taste
Nope, too fine.
I'm wondering if I'm just imagining that standard supermarket spaghetti has gotten thinner since I was younger - I thought is used to be about 2.5mm diameter dry, and now I just measured a piece at around 1.6mm diameter dry - when I've compared on the shelf it seemed to me all the brands were a similar diameter.
I just googled and read 'In the U.S., spaghetti is between 0.06 inches and 0.11 inches [1.5-2.8mm] in diameter, whereas vermicelli is less than 0.06 inches (1.5 millimeters) across.' - https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-is-vermicelli-5213765
It's an easy guess this could be to increase profits if a smaller size filled the same size packet with less weight - dunno
but if my standard spaghetti is 1.6mm diameter that looks to me pretty close to vermicelli (<1.5mm)
All packs weigh 500g though.
Haha! Calipers out with each purchase?
$1.70 a pkt back on 30.06.2021, damn inflation.
I was thinking the same as I searched before posting. Depressing isn't it?
Thanks OP!
Barilla Pasta Al Bronzo Spaghetti 400g also at same price for those of us who prefer the texture.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Barilla-Pasta-Bronzo-Spaghetti-400…
Awesome thanks never seen this before, am getting a few to try and I'll update the post.
Ok!
This is actually not too bad.
2500 times better than the blue box
Barilla spaghetti, how many do you get?
No 5 (lol)
No 5 is alive
Nova Robotics
Barilla is rubbish - Cucina Matese, La Molisana (which are the same thing) or the Woolworths Macro Organic are miles better.
Great pasta, only the price lately went over my budget.
Generally speaking, $2.25 is not a good price for pasta regardless of the quality.
I managed to get 500 gr for $0.50 but that is a good clearance. Amazon promotions on pasta are usually around $1 per 500 gramm pack (e.g. San Remo).
Seems like it’s $1.5 many times before. Not much of a deal this time
Alex, while not a professional chef by trade, has a wonderful YouTube channel for those who love food.
How I Buy Pasta Like An Italian Chef (up your pasta game for good)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_XMTvAgpEw
(yes he ranks Barilla)
To Italians, Barilla is like Fosters to Australians.
eh..not really. Im pretty sure Barilla is the most sold brand in Italy. Maybe in the past decade or so other brands have caught up a bit, I dont know, but historically it has always been the best seller. Not the best product, just the most marketed and sold.
On the other hand Fosters…. seriously I have no seen one Australian dinking it since I lived here lol. Not sure Ive even ever seen it in a bottleshop
My conclusion was based on anecdotal "evidence". Every Italian I know says they don't eat Barilla. Just like Aussies don't drink Fosters. BTW never seen in the bottle shops either.
Barilla has 50% market share in Italy, so plenty of actual italians are buying it.
I don't understand all the hate for it here, it's perfectly fine pasta, same quality as other common italian brands (e.g. Divella, De Cecco). It isn't gourmet pasta, and isn't priced as such either.
@greatlamp: Probably VB would have been a better analogy. Drinkable, but average. Still much better than most aussie brands of course.
I think De Cecco and La Molisana have a better reputation, but priced more as well.
It took longer than what I thought it would but S&S OOS .
Please don't!
Get this one in the link below instead.
No comparison, heaps cheaper.
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/215450/mac…