Why bronze-cut pasta makes every sauce better
Rough surface = sauce clings. Teflon-extruded = sauce slides off.
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## The texture difference
Bronze-cut pasta has a rough, porous surface. Teflon-extruded is smooth, almost waxy. Under a microscope it's night and day.
## Cook-water starch
Bronze-cut releases more starch into the cook water — which is why '2 ladles of pasta water into the sauce' actually works.