Let's cook some spaghetti.
We will need other ingredients.
The first step is to prepare the guanciale.
>>21675282Let's see your carbonara
>>21675314The guanciale needs to be rendered for that to happen
While that renders, let's grate the cheese. Only genuine, imported pecorino romano!
The guanciale is done!
>>21675345Yet you buy the most hobo-approved malted booze beverage known to man. Priorities I guess. Won't be caught dead with store brand ingredients but buys the bummiest beer on the market.
>>21675345>Only genuine, imported pecorino romano>pasteurizedlol
>>21675361The eggs are store brand.
The sauce needs eggs. I'm using three egg yolks and one whole egg.
>>21675361>bummiest malt beerthis abyss goes deeper
i fucked it up OP, sorry
Next, it's time to cook the spaghetti.
>>21675282>Barilla >Al Bronzo Sauce GriplolJust get fucking De Cecco you maroon.
>>21675408I hadn't seen this at the store before and decided to try it to see if it was better. De Cecco is better than this.
>>21675402Where did you get the water from? Store brand?
In it goes! I'm only using eleven ounces.>>21675417It's tap brand from the well.
>>21675413That's an acceptable excuse. You can obviously afford De Cecco based on your kitchen. Al Bronzo is definitely Barilla trying to compete with the better sauce gripper pasta brands like De Coco.
>>21675428De Cecco was $2.50. This was $2.00.
While the pasta cooks, we can get the sauce ready.
nigga u been cookin this for an hour and a half and you ain't made shit
>>21675327Whats wrong with your bacon? It looks retarded
>>21675448It's not bacon.
It's important to incorporate the cheese gradually.
>>21675454Its some retarded euro bacon
To fully melt the cheese, gradually add some pasta water to the egg and cheese mixture while stirring rapidly. This tempers the eggs.
why would you buy that giant slab of meat just for 1 dish?
>>21675464I froze the rest.
>>21675435POORFAG!!!!!!
The pasta is al dente. Time to add it to the guanciale pan.
Next, we add the peas.
>>21675494STOPWHAT ARE YOU DOINGFUCK
>>21675499Just kidding! No peas went into this meal.I didn't have a good chance to get a picture of the sauce in the pan, but the heat from the steam reduced the sauce. Anyway, here's the finished meal. It was good 'nara! Next time I'll definitely spend the extra fifty cents for De Cecco spaghetti.
Thank you for your effort, looks good friend.
>>21675520Where's the lucky guy ?
>>21675537Thanks!>>21675540I was the lucky guy because I had a good meal. The other bowl was for my wife, and I was not going to post a photograph of her on 4chan.
>>21675550What's his name?
>>21675520I hope this image is reversed. If it isn't then you made grievous errors with your table setting and the whole meal is ruined. Fork and napkin go on the left. Wine glass goes on the right.
>>21675611Are you Australian? That arrangement would make sense down there.
>>21675630Fuck you. Proper table setting is the same despite in both hemispheres.
>>21675652Every place setting I've ever seen has had the utensils on the right side of the plate, unless it was some super fancy formal setting with multiple forks. It's probably set up that way because most people are right-handed. The glass placement is opposite to the person eating in order to reduce the chance of an accidental spill.
>>21675282Rhymes with GloRilla.
Op is married to a post wall female and sees her every day
>>21675520Looks yummy and nice plating.>>21675652You sound upsetti
>>21675550she's probably an ugly whore and i hope she gets raped
>>21675392gross
>>21675520looks good, nice job
>>21675445Good things come to those who wait.
>>21675550>I was not going to post a photograph of her on 4chan.
Funnily enough the Italians do have a carbonara version that does take peas in it. It's called Carbonara e Piselli.
>>21676781>piselli cuckitini
>>21675282Does anyone else find the Barilla AL BRONZO packaging disgusting? I can't even tell what material it is but it's the most unpleasant packaging any pasta company has ever used. It feels so dirty and awkward when you touch it, must be some recycled stuff.I only got the Spaghettoni for Carbonara because they finally went from 400g to 500g which is the standard in Europe and it's no longer a rip off at 1,11€ on sale (used to be 1,79€). Barilla's Al Bronzo line must have flopped really hard for them to make changes like that
>>21676869they completely fucked up by making the packet 400g and priced higher or the same as better brands. however their fussiloni have become my favorite shape for short pasta and no other brand around here has this
>>21676953Yea, most people that have been put off by the shameless 400g will still think that it's 400g unless they do some major rebranding. I wouldn't even have checked twice if it wasn't only 1,11€.I love the general shape of Fusilli but I was hoping for small Fusillini which would have been great for for salads for example and not big Fusilloni. What do you use them for most of the time?
>>21676869>>21676988Is it true that Barilla is Italy's number one pasta brand? As an American, I hate Barilla and only eat De Cecco or better.
>>21677159Nobody knows how they determined that. It seems sus because Blue Barilla is no better than most if not all store brand pasta and it's actually worse than every al bronzo store brand. Red Barilla is not competitive with the better brands, not in terms of price and definitely not in terms of quality
>>21676953I never lived in an area that sold this brand until recently, so fucking good. never had the barilla version but I don't want to encourage that company either way as their regular pasta is poopoo.
>>21678583How much is this in regular stores (not online) without sales and on sale if that ever happens?
>>21675520lLooks great, anon. What are you drinking with it
>>21677159Marketing can be very effective. Barilla is not bad but not exceptional either they just did a good job with their ads and it stuck with the boomers.
>>21675345>Only genuine, imported pecorino romano!stop falling for EU protectionist nonsense. you can get pecorino romano in the united states for a fraction of the costs and honestly tastes even better than wop slop
>>21678610I wouldn't say that Barilla is bad either but when you compare it to store brand Al Bronzo pasta that is cheaper it's a pretty bad deal. Even when Barilla is on sale it's a bad deal because the store brand is noticably better. Not to mention all the actual good brands
>>21678600I think it is all $3 though there's some imprint within the brand that may be slightly more expensive by about 50 cents for a few specific shapes. Roughly equivalent in price and quality to De Cecco. I think Molisano has a bigger variety of shapes though. I shop at a local Amish-run market, and I can't remember the pasta ever being on sale, Pantry stuff never being on sale and in short supply and variety is the one downside of shopping there.
>>21675345>>21678612I've tried all kinds of combos. Pecorino, Parmesan and Grana Padano. Pecorino is nothing special, for me it's the worst of the three. Just go with whatever hard cheese you like best that is available to you. For me it's a 30 month old Parmesan which is incredible and sometimes I add 50% Grana Padano for balance. Most people won't even like Carbonara if you only use Pecorino.Lots of people will prefer a good Pancetta over an overly fatty Guanciale too
>>21678630Sorry I confused Molisana with Monograno for some reason which is probably the most premium pasta brand. 3,90€ to 6,80€ online here. The US packaging for La Molisana kinda looks like Monograno Felicetti, that's probably not a coincidence but the EU packaging is completely different. La Molisana is relatively cheap here at 0,99€ on sale which is pretty often and 1,99€ regular price. I love their Al Bronzo Lasagna plates, can't beat that at 0,99€ for 500g. I guess it's a real advantage to live so close to Italy
>>21675520Nice...
>>21677159>Is it true that Barilla is Italy's number one pasta brand?in the same sense that mcdonald is (probably) the US number 1 restaurant chain>>21677226i think i read the fine print once, and it was based on sales numbers, which makes sense
>>21679018It's actually Subway followed by Starbucks but McDick's is third
>>21678609It was some cheap store brand Italian pinot grigio from BJ's wholesale club that was not very good.
>>21679026>Starbuckseither i'm missing something or the people in charge of that have a very loose definition of restaurant
>>21679044Women go there for breakfast and lunch, they have pastries and eggs and shitMy wife works with kids and their parents give her hundreds of dollars in Starbucks cards and she's always saying their eggs are great but I'm like they're just coddled eggs we can do better at home but fuck it, let her eat overpriced eggs and coffee, I don't want to bother selling the cards on Ebay
>>21675520Looks great anon, even if you're a fucking attention whore you did a great job on a poor man's dish. I'd use a red wine, and nothing fancy but an everyday meal's wine, but it's not mandatory, just preferences. I'd have a bigger serving, to be honest but maybe you're just showing off your "plating" >>21677159Pretty much it is, as this guy >>21679018 here pointed out. But here in the stores we really have a lot of brands, even local ones. Molisana is doing well even here in Italy quality/price wise.>t. italian
>>21680526Ckean the extra soce off the dish for better presentation
>>21680537not my intention, went just for the content.
>>21680558I can dig it
>>21680561Wrong pic. Pasta thread and whatnot
>>21680561>>21680567God you're an annoying fag
>>21680571Kek cry pussy nofood tastelet
>>21675520Tasteful.These days I add additional fat to the bacon as it renders and use that to mix the cheese and egg instead of pasta water, the emulsion is easier and it makes for a different experience, you should try it sometime!
>>21680587Che schifoCarbonara is supposed to be a light dish
>>21680589>to be a light dishCarbonara a light dish? The fact that it has just a few ingredients doesn't mean that pork fat, eggs and goat cheese are exactly "light".A plain tomato pasta is light, or the many sauces that use vegetables are. The fuck are you saying carbonara is light, ma ti leggi quello che cazzo scrivi?
>>21680729>goat cheese*sheep fml
>>21675290Why eggs??
>>21676988Just as a general-purpose short pasta. It was great with homemade pesto this summer. Also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdaJR9qwkXM and other chunky sauces that are better eaten with a spoon rather than a fork.>1,11€Are you in Germany? Saw that price in Kaufland I think.
>>21678583my local supermarket (kaufland, germany) has like 5 awesome italian pasta brands. de cecco, felicetti, la molisana, garofalo (every now and then) but it's always just the same 3-4 boring shapes...the barilla fusilloni look different and are not just larger fusilli.
has anybody already told you Barilla is overrated? I came in this thread just to say that
>no sour cremePleb tierItalian are the worst at their own cuisine
OP here, I'm trans btw if that matters
