"Bier de Stone" > wrote in message
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> I had an experience buying bucatini some time ago at the supermarket.
> These are hollow noodles and when I put them in a pot to boil, I found
> all the little eggs and baby weevil like insects floated at the top.
> That was my motive to make my own noodles.
>
> I purchased a noodle press and now I'm quite good at making fetuccini.
> My question is for noodle makers out there reading this. How does one go
> about drying a noodle so that they remain flat, and most importantly,
> don't stick to one another? My current method is lying them flat on a
> cookie pan and sprinkling flower on top of them so they next layer
> doesn`t stick. When I'm done, I put the pan in an old fashion gas pilot
> oven. The ongoing heat from the lit pilot is warm enough to dry the
> noodles from one day to the next.
>
> I've considered hanging them up to dry separately, allowing a single
> noodle its place on the line but haven't gotten to that point of
> experimentation yet. I'm using the 4 cup recipe and usually divide the
> dough in half for the noodles I dry per pan using the oven. I discovered
> if I try to do the whole mass of dough, sticking is unavoidable. Tell me
> I'm not doing this wrong because I need to dry a single layer at a time
> in the oven.
>

Get yourself an old fashioned wooden clothes rack for drying clothes and dry
your noodles over this. That's what I do. Except I have to put mine on a
table so the dogs don't snack on the pasta as it dries.

Anita