Masciarelli Bronze Cut Pennine Piccole Rigate

Pennine Piccole Rigate Bronze Cut Pasta

Pennine Piccole Rigate Pasta? It's small and pointed.

If you like a pasta that will hold up to any kind of sauce or preparation, well this is it. BUT, you can't twirl it

Penne Piccole Rigate (Little Penne) belongs to the family of Penne but differ in diameter as they are much smaller and cut on a bias. Penne Piccole Rigate are excellent for preparing any pasta dish that you like. They also adapt perfectly to soups.

What makes Pastificio Masciarelli Bronze Cut Pasta so incredible? Well, almost 95% of all dry pasta produced is made using silicon dyes, which create a very smooth surface. Not Masciarelli.

They create their bronze cut artisan pasta one form at a time, using a single press and a small set of handmade circular bronze dyes. The ingredients are simple: 100% durum wheat (high in protein) and pure spring water from the waters of the surrounding Majella National Park; and nothing else.

Each batch is handled independently from the others; mixed and adjusted by eye and feel and cut by hand. The resulting shapes are allowed to dry at a very low temperature (not exceeding 45* c) for as long as 3 days.

This method is more time consuming than those used by most of their large scale counterparts, but allows for the gradual removal of moisture from the pasta. A fact that can be seen on the pasta itself, in the form of a fine dust of flour that remains on the surface.

All of this extra effort and bronze dyes produce a rough texture, (which you can feel) and allows sauce to cling to this extraordinary product. So, if you’ve ever wondered why the sauce just slides off your regular industrial pasta, this is why; it has nothing to cling to.