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Bronze dies give pasta a rough surface that holds sauce

Extruding through bronze leaves a porous texture that white teflon dies do not

Industrial pasta is often pushed through smooth teflon dies, which gives a glossy, slippery strand. Traditional bronze dies are rougher, so the extruded pasta comes out with a micro-texture that grabs sauce rather than letting it slide off, and it clouds the cooking water with more starch. The trade-off is a slightly slower, less uniform production line.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Extruding through bronze leaves a porous texture that white teflon dies do not. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a food fact?: Yes. It sits on the Food shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.