We certainly do love our pasta around here and we're always on the lookout for new ways to jazz up our humble dishes. This pipette-shaped pasta recently appeared on our grocery store shelves, and we've quickly decided it's our top choice for the coming cold season dishes!
Look! Pipette-Shaped Pasta
Their shape is somewhat similar to macaroni, but the tube is wider and actually dips down in the middle like the pipe it's named after.
With one open end and one slightly cinched end, sauces and smaller ingredients get caught inside the pasta. Take a bite and you get the chewiness from the pasta followed by a burst from the liquid being held inside.
To take full advantage of this unique characteristic, this pasta is best suited to soups and pasta dishes with a rich sauce. We've tried it in tomato soup and with a hearty ragu with enthusiastic results.
Look for it next time you go grocery shopping!
Related: Recipe: Southwest Skillet Ragu
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They are conchiglie, that is shells in Italian. (As many might have noticed Italy has more than just maccheroni and spaghetti.)
As in the post, they are ideal for hearty sauces like ragù.
view lugri's profile
my mom always prepared them with peas (cooked with the pasta or added afterward), I love them together
view plch's profile
I spent a few years in bio & chem labs... this isn't quite what I had in mind when I read the word 'pipette' :)
www.pipette.com
view Plaid Ninja's profile
Echoing Plaid Ninja, these do not look like Rainins to me.
I was excited for a minute there and then my dreams were crushed. I want pipette shaped pasta. And maybe a cake shaped like a vortex mixer.
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Noooooooo, not Rainin!
Sorry, I used to work for Brinkmann/Eppendorf a long time ago, and I still remember the grumbling about how the Eppendorf name wasn't yet synonymous with pipettes the way Rainin was in some labs. I still have my set of highly coveted pipette pens, at least they were once upon a time - we used to get calls from lab managers who wanted to place orders just for the pens.
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