Gusta Bucatini Pasta

Bucatini cooked up firm and the hollow center grabbed more sauce than I expected. One package feeds fewer people than our usual grocery box, so check the weight before planning dinner. Quality was excellent though, and leftovers were still good the next day

Made bucatini for friends and the hollow center turned dinner into an event. Sauce clung outside and snuck into the noodles, so every bite had more flavor than regular spaghetti. It stayed firm while I finished salad and got everyone to the table, which took longer than planned. One friend had never seen bucatini and kept holding pieces up to the light like a tiny telescope 😂. Silly, delicious, and definately going into the regular rotation

The hole in the noodle makes everyone in my house weirdly happy. Cooked al dente and held a thick red sauce like a champ.

weeknight standby. easy cook time. holds al dente. pairs well with everything in the pantry. keeps me from ordering takeout.

It was out of stock for a few weeks. When it came back I bought six bags. Not ashamed.

Best bucatini I've had outside of Italy. I know that sounds like hyperbole but I'm being sincere. The texture, the hollow, the al dente hold.

Subscribed. At some point you just stop reordering manually.

heavy sauce pasta. ragu. amatriciana. braised lamb over bucatini. all three were better because of the tube and the texture. this is the right shape for serious sauces.

Some pieces were perfect, a few were softer than I wanted. Could be my technique. Could be the pasta. Not sure. Flavor was good.

You can taste the difference that slow drying makes when you bite into it al dente. The interior stays firm. The exterior has something to grab. This is the pasta that made me stop buying the supermarket version.

I expected to be impressed. I was not. It cooked fine, tasted fine, the tube did its thing. Just not the experience everyone else seems to be describing. Maybe I needed a better sauce.

Cooked alla gricia three Sundays in a row to compare this to what I had been using. By the third Sunday my notes said this: better sauce grip, better al dente, better leftovers. Switching permanently.

new household staple. on my fourth reorder. it goes in every pasta night.

I've been buying De Cecco bucatini for years and thought it was fine. Tried this once. The texture difference is real, the al dente hold is better, the sauce clings differently. It's worth the price difference.

properly rough from the bronze die. properly hollow so the sauce gets in. properly al dente when you cook it right. thats the whole spec and it hits all three.

My husband tasted the first bite and said 'wait, what did you do differently.' I said 'better pasta.' He said 'get more.' We have eight bags in the pantry now.

fine. better than the store. not the transformative thing some people describe. just fine pasta.

Made this for a dinner party for six people. Three of them texted me after asking where I got the pasta. Pretty good outcome for a $14 purchase.

I always thought the hole in bucatini was a fun shape detail and not actually functional. Made this with a tomato and guanciale sauce and understood immediately that the hole matters. Sauce was inside every piece of pasta. Different eating experience.

You can see the rough texture on the dry pasta before it even goes in the water. After cooking, the sauce clung in a way that made the whole dish feel more put-together than the same recipe with supermarket pasta.

Fourth bag. Started keeping a backup bag because I ran out once and had a sad pasta night with something else. Not doing that again.

Good quality. Al dente hold is real. Bronze-die texture is visible. Solid product. Would buy again at a slight discount.

My kids usually pick around their pasta if the shape is unfamiliar. Put this in front of them and they ate the whole bowl. The hollow tube made it interesting enough that they forgot to complain.

Made too much on purpose. Leftovers the next day with a little olive oil and it was still al dente. That never happens with grocery-store pasta. This holds up.

Half the pieces were al dente, half were overcooked. Same pot, same water, same time. Not sure what happened. Could try again but at this price I expected more consistency.

perfetto. used it for amatriciana, used it for cacio e pepe, used it for a simple olive oil and garlic. all three were better than with any pasta I had before. the texture and the tube work together

Tastes better than De Cecco honestly. Just not sure the price difference is worth it every week. For a special dinner yes. For tuesday night not sure.

Made this for Sunday dinner and everyone at the table was asking about the pasta shape. Then they were asking where to get it. Then my mother-in-law asked me to cook it for her next time she visits. Not what I expected from a pasta order.

Made a lamb ragu with this and the tube captured the sauce at every bite. Pasta this thick stands up to heavy sauces without going soft. Cooked it al dente with no problems. Very good product.

literally the tube delivers. sauce inside the pasta. it seems gimmicky until you eat it and then you understand why this shape exists.

good pasta. holds al dente. sauce grips it. nothing to complain about. I dont feel the need to write three paragraphs. just good.

Made alla gricia twice this month with these and both times my wife said it was the best pasta I've made. I didn't tell her I just used better ingredients. Sometimes that's the whole secret.

I was warned that bucatini breaks in the pot. I was careful, lowered it slowly as it softened, no breaks. Perfect cook. Sauce went inside the tube. Dinner was great. The rough surface on this pasta is something you notice the first time you use it.