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Tearing this opinion apart by merely stabbing it with my fork and failing to pick it up

I've never had trouble cooking penne to the proper texture, sauce will stick to it and go inside. It also works great in baked pasta dishes. I don't know what the penne haters are even doing, it's the most versatile shape.

Boooo!

Penne is kind of useless.

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But we do agree on angel hair. It's my mom's favorite and it's such a pain in the ass.

Guess your gravy (said what I said) isn't as good as mine!

Trying to figure out my angle here cause I love penne + butter + Parm but in no other context

Those of us who use the pasta to hold the sauce, are shaking our fists at you.

Also it's too big.

At last we know, how many angel hairs could dance on the head of a penne?

I understand big tent arguments but I can't go shoulder to shoulder with these bowtie people, Cook Farfuck outta here with that shit

I’m curious! Why do you dislike each?

Which is the best, tho? This thread baffles me because every type of which I am aware made the list…

I have had to mute this thread because I cannot see any other notifications otherwise but I celebrate everyone’s pasta opinions, even the patently wrong ones

I do not even respect them.

no you don’t

What does it mean if you like both of those? At least if the penne is cooked well enough (but then again I’m not a huge fan of anything al dente.)

I like rigatoni. Rigatoni with meatballs was my dad's requested birthday dinner for decades, and I have fond associations there. Also, it's not hard to eat like penne is.

angel hair—barf!!

angel hair the GOAT

Wat?!

But mostaccioli is just even more boring - and slightly unsettling - penne. It's definitely mostaccioli.

Could not disagree more strongly. Absolutely love penne, give it to me every time. I am the origin of the phrase "Penne wise, pound foolish"

wow

Penne blows! It was my first thought.

Contrarian nonsense.

falls off of forks

Are you talking about penne lisce? I still think it's far from the worst shape but there's probably no excuse for it when penne rigate exists.

Penne is great if you have good gravy.

You are correct, sir.

AGREED

Penne isn't great, but ziti is worse!!

You have to sauce it delicately, with olive oil, tomato, and basil

I kid really, penne is fine but I’m more of a simple rigatoni man

the next person to cook penne properly will be the first

Welp, can't unsee that now

Rigate dammit

But I was told that the penne is mightier ...

*gasp*

SpongeBob shape

I know I’m out of step with what’s hot but bucatini is dumb and useless. Spaghetti with a hole in it? Gtfoh.

I think all pasta shapes are at least good, while some are even better

Farfalle's for freaks who want a variety of textures from a single piece of pasta

Themed shapes are right there sucking ass in 2025 and everybody is giving them a pass?? Well not anymore.

The shit my dad buys at Costco. It's funny that it's called Garafalo but the shape is meh. Like barely a twist.

Penne, it’s obvious

angel hair is somehow always soggy, even if you let it sit for like 4 hours what the fuck is that shit

Orecchiette - the flat-ish round kind I've never had it when it wasn't overcooked. Also: don't look like Quisp if you're not Quisp. Just be Quisp!!!

Spaghetti. Absolute trash pasta.

Any shape made from whole wheat flour. Some people are animals. Oh, and pappardelle - ungainly.

I was today years old when I found out there are people in this world who make pasta salad with cream of mushroom soup and I wish I could go back in time and unlearn that.

It's exceedingly simple to cook properly!

It's called Farfalle and it's the best!

Pinwheel pasta. Grow the fuck up.

macaroni elbows suck actually and the only reason anyone likes them is trauma nostalgia from the rare "cooked" meal your alcoholic parents bothered to make for you same goes for hamburger helper. I'm sorry she didn't love you enough to quit

strozapretti, too clergy-hating

And fall apart when you cook them!

Macaroni is the worst. Gnnochi is the best.

There’s no reason for farfalle - they are always overcooked at the wings and uncooked in the middle. Same for those ridiculous wheels.

Farfalle bc either the center of the bow is insufficiently cooked or the outer edges are overcooked and floppy. Useless pasta shape. Elbows second, penne third.

Farfalle (bowtie) is objectively flawed. The thick bunching in the middle necessarily leads to either undercooked middle or overcooked wings.

it fills with sauce only to fling it everywhere when you try to eat it

I’ve never seen it but it sounds worse than fettuccine which is the only noodle I avoid.

rigatoni. too damn boku. unless you're a real sauceror, you're gonna end up with a bunch of dry noodles.

Spaghetti

I didn’t realize there was pasta people aren’t fans of until today.

I’ll give you three that are trash: Penne, lasagna, angel hair

Rotini is perfect. How dare you

Dinosaur

Fusilli. So gross.

Linguine. Either pick Spaghetti or Fettuccine, don't be a coward and split the difference.

Rotini. Penne is right there to hold onto sauce, but these mfers gotta be extra and have weird frills to mess with your texture.

I love those crunchy little clumps

unfortunately this touches directly on the discourse I am trying to steer away from

Penne. It's not cooked, it's not cooked, it's not cooked, it's splitting into ribbons because it's overcooked. This is all in the space of 90 seconds. It's shite.

macaroni, boring as hell vehicle for some of the whitest culinary atrocities ever conceived

Bow-ties. They should just print on the box that you’re supposed to cook the ends for 9 minutes and the centers for 11.

Spaghetti! I basically like everything better than spaghetti. Why did it become the default pasta? It's like one of those long running CBS shows that no one you know has ever watched.

Penne - not so much the shape but the texture. You end up eating sauce separately. So dumb.

as long as nobody attacks my bowties i'm good

Wagon wheels. The thick walls are always a terrible combination of tough/chewy and gummy.

fettuccine, do we really need wide spaghetti????

bowties

this is the way. inferior, useless pasta

Spaghetti. Everyone else is doing something better than spaghetti

Big ass pasta shells

bucatini is the right answer

I never met a noodle I didn’t like!

Orecchiette. no contest

Angel Hair. there's a 4 second window between raw and mush.

Bucatini, it got really popular but it's bad spaghetti

Penne lisce specifically. Even Italians don't want it

Angel Hair. Do you like choking? How about feeling like you are choking? Try Angel Hair. The next best thing to a mouth full of actual hair.

I love the *idea* of bucatini, but in practice it just doesn’t work.

Angel hair is gross

Is tortellini a shape? Those nasty little nuggets. Are they better in Italy, is this an American frozen-food problem?

Its Pikachu. Obviously.

Farfalle, without a doubt.

Farfalle. Its always a brick to chew.

Lasanga But BUT Only after leftovers. It’s gets all hard and weird and I just don’t like it at all. Only fresh is ideal.

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