[Sca-cooks] handmade pasta
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
Tue Oct 14 22:05:22 PDT 2003
Some years ago, I saw a demonstration of noodle making by Mark Pi.
Not sure if they have them every where, but Mark Pi's is a large
chain of Chinese restaurants.
He took a large amount of a fairly soft dough, stretched it, folded
in half, stretched it again by holding both ends and flipping the
dough up and down, until it was maybe 6 feet long. He folded it in
half and stretched again.. and again.. and again each time doubling
the number of strands. Until there were thousands of noodles, using
only his hands.
I'm sure it was much harder than it looked, but it only took him a
few minutes, and didn't seem harder than tossing a pizza (another
skill that's harder than it looks). In fact, now that I looked up his
website, he holds a Guinness World record for making 4,096 noodles in
41.34 seconds!
http://www.markpi.com/mp2.htm
This is apparently a traditional method of noodle making in China,
but I don't know how far back, or if it was ever known in Europe.
Ranvaig
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