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Steve Pope Steve Pope is offline
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Default User > wrote:

>I don't like to eyeball it, because I often end up with a remnant
>that's not enough for the purpose. I use a kitchen scale to weigh out
>the pasta. It's easy and sure.


Yes, same here. When we're cooking for ourselves, we user 2
oz by weight of dried pasta per person in any of our standard
pasta dishes. Note that we include a lot of vegetables also
(squash, peppers etc.) so that makes a quite large bowl of
pasta per person.

Steve