Foodie divides pasta fans with controversial recipe for fresh fettucine: 'Where in Italy did you learn this culinary crime?'
Sometimes with recipes, you just need to trust the process.
And one pasta aficionado on the internet has taught us just that. Grace Taylor, who shares cooking videos on social media, shared a trick she learned while travelling through Italy.
US-born Taylor, like many of us, loves the idea of making fresh pasta but finds the activity a bit tedious.
She revealed an unconventional hack she was taught in Italy which involves blending dried spaghetti to make your own pasta dough.
Watch the clip above
Taylor blended angel hair spaghetti to a fine powder. Facebook
Taylor used angel hair pasta and shoved an entire packet in the blender, before pulverising it into a fine powder. "We're making fresh pasta out of pasta," she narrated the viral clip.
After blending the angel hair, she popped the flour-like substance onto the kitchen bench and cracked an egg into it.
The next step involves combining the egg and dried pasta together until it makes a doughy paste.
"If your dough is a little too dry, you just need to add another egg in there," Taylor explained to her followers.
Next, Taylor flattened the dough with a rolling pin and sprinkled some pasta flour on top.
Then she simply cuts the dough into fettuccine-shaped pasta.
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After adding an egg and combine the ingredients, she cut the dough into thick strands. Facebook
The result was a fettucine-style pasta. Facebook
"What's so cool is you can make any shape of pasta that you want," she added. "There's no rules with making pasta this way."
The result is long strands of fresh pasta, which Taylor transformed from hard, uncooked angel hair pasta.
The final step is cooking the pasta in salted boiled water. Her secret tip is adding a little bit of oil to the water so the pasta doesn't stick.
"It's like the perfect consistency, it's soft and it tastes exactly like fresh pasta," Taylor said, while eating her concoction.
While her pasta looked like the perfect Italian feast, plenty of Taylor's followers weren't overly impressed with how she made it.
Some people questioned her method and claimed it certainly wasn't an Italian-approved recipe.
Some pasta fans weren't so sure of the hack, though. Facebook
"No way that this is learned in Italy.. Italian people get heart attacks seeing Spaghetti broken like this," one person wrote.
"Where in Italy did you learn this culinary crime?" another furious commenter added.
Taylor, noticing the deluge of shocked responses, took to the video's comment section to calm the angry foodies.
"I like to have fun in my kitchen. This was something i heard "works" not necessarily that it would be practical lol. I just wanted to experiment and find out for myself!" she said.
"I never meant to highly offend any of you Italians. My family on my dad's side are all Italian!! And they thought it was funny how it does actually kinda work. No harm was meant to be done here!"
