Thread 21675282

Let's cook some spaghetti.

We will need other ingredients.

The first step is to prepare the guanciale.

>>21675282 (OP)
Let's see your carbonara

>>21675314
The 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!

>>21675345
Yet 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
>pasteurized
lol

>>21675361
The eggs are store brand.

The sauce needs eggs. I'm using three egg yolks and one whole egg.

>>21675361
>bummiest malt beer
this abyss goes deeper

i fucked it up OP, sorry

Next, it's time to cook the spaghetti.

>>21675282 (OP)
>Barilla
>Al Bronzo Sauce Grip
lol
Just get fucking De Cecco you maroon.

>>21675408
I 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.

>>21675402
Where did you get the water from? Store brand?

In it goes! I'm only using eleven ounces.
>>21675417
It's tap brand from the well.

>>21675413
That'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.

>>21675428
De 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

>>21675327
Whats wrong with your bacon? It looks retarded

>>21675448
It's not bacon.

It's important to incorporate the cheese gradually.

>>21675454
Its 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?

>>21675464
I froze the rest.

>>21675435
POORFAG!!!!!!

The pasta is al dente. Time to add it to the guanciale pan.

Next, we add the peas.

>>21675494
STOP
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
FUCK

>>21675499
Just 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.

>>21675520
Where's the lucky guy ?

>>21675537
Thanks!
>>21675540
I 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.

>>21675550
What's his name?

>>21675520
I 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.

>>21675611
Are you Australian? That arrangement would make sense down there.

>>21675630
Fuck you. Proper table setting is the same despite in both hemispheres.

>>21675652
Every 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.

>>21675282 (OP)
Rhymes with GloRilla.

Op is married to a post wall female and sees her every day

>>21675520
Looks yummy and nice plating.

>>21675652
You sound upsetti

>>21675550
she's probably an ugly whore and i hope she gets raped

>>21675392
gross

>>21675520
looks good, nice job

>>21675445
Good 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

>>21675282 (OP)
Does 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

>>21676869
they 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

>>21676953
Yea, 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
>>21676988
Is it true that Barilla is Italy's number one pasta brand? As an American, I hate Barilla and only eat De Cecco or better.

>>21677159
Nobody 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

>>21676953
I 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.

>>21678583
How much is this in regular stores (not online) without sales and on sale if that ever happens?

>>21675520l
Looks great, anon. What are you drinking with it

>>21677159
Marketing 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

>>21678610
I 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

>>21678600
I 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
>>21678612
I'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

>>21678630
Sorry 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

>>21675520
Nice...

>>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

>>21677226
i think i read the fine print once, and it was based on sales numbers, which makes sense

>>21679018
It's actually Subway followed by Starbucks but McDick's is third

>>21678609
It was some cheap store brand Italian pinot grigio from BJ's wholesale club that was not very good.

>>21679026
>Starbucks
either i'm missing something or the people in charge of that have a very loose definition of restaurant

>>21679044
Women go there for breakfast and lunch, they have pastries and eggs and shit
My 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