Practical kitchen tools

Measure less.
Cook with confidence.

Nine useful answers for the decisions pasta cooks make most often.

What can I cook tonight?

Match real recipes to ingredients, time and the kind of dinner you need.

Plan dried, fresh, filled or baked pasta for adults and children.

Move in either direction: sauce to shape, or shape to sauce.

Choose a roomy or compact pot and get a sensible seasoning range.

Estimate a realistic cooked-weight range for four pasta categories.

Adjust a packet time for the texture and finishing method you want.

Filter key events by the strength of their evidence.

Explore shapes and sauces through careful regional associations.

Test the familiar stories and learn why each answer holds.