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by jillesvangurp 869 days ago
It's simply not the same thing. The dried pasta you buy is extruded under high pressure. Typically you use a good quality semolina and water for this instead of type 0 flour and eggs.

Hand kneading and rolling your pasta produces a very different texture from extruded pasta. Even if you use semolina and water and hand roll it, the result just isn't the same. It's actually very hard to reproduce some of the pre-packaged pastas in terms of texture without the right equipment. Forget about doing that at home; you need some industrial equipment to do that well.

I follow a channel on Youtube that did a whole series on dried pasta a while ago. Worth watching if you are interested in the virtues of dried pasta vs. home made pasta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptnXLYYIQ9Y&list=PLURsDaOr8h...