What is the difference between pasta and noodles?!
What is the difference between pasta and noodles?
does pasta and noodles taste and looks different?
Answers:
I hope this answers your question, I literally cut and pasted this information from the web, I'm not going to lie!!
There are two basic forms of pasta - macaroni and noodles. Macaroni products are made from semolina and water. Noodles are made from Durum flour (a more finely ground form of semolina), water and, by Federal regulation, egg solids. So, without the egg solids, a pasta product can't be identified as a noodle. Because people often equate eggs with cholesterol, noodles are sometimes mistakenly singled out as a less healthy pasta choice. Yet one two-ounce serving of uncooked noodles, or the equivalent of one and one-quarter cups of cooked noodles, contains 70 milligrams of cholesterol - 23 percent of the U.S. Government recommended Daily Value. Some noodle-shaped pastas are "Yolk-Free" and contain only egg whites and are cholesterol-free.
Source(s):
http://www.ronzoni.com/cooking/funfacts....
The only thing I can think of is that pasta is Italian, or more correctly Chinese. Some explorer took pasta from China back to Italy. Noodles can be from anywhere. I don't know if being made from flour or eggs makes a difference, and I don't care, I like them all!
well,
PASTA-italian
NOODLES-chinese
hahaha. it's the same.!
Pasta is a pretentious way to say noodles. It's all the same.
I usually classify noodles as the ones that have egg in the dough- the ones you would serve with, for example, swedish meatballs.
It is probably still correct to call that a 'pasta'. But I wouldn't call a lot of other pasta 'noodles'.
For example, rigatoni isn't noodles
Hello there!
I am Italian and I live in Taiwan! 'Pasta' is an Italian word, 'noodles' is English, 'mien' is the Chinese word for 'pasta' or 'noodles'.
Basically they are all the same:
- Italians call Chinese noodles 'pasta cinese' (Chinese pasta/noodles)
- Chinese call Italian Pasta 'yidali mien' (Italian pasta/noodles)
- In English you can say both 'Italian noodles' or 'Chinese noodles' ....
So without specifying weather they are Italian or Chinese there's no difference!
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