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Good gnocchi depends on dry potato and little flour

Extra flour makes the dough springy and the dumplings heavy

Potato gnocchi are held together by the starch in the potato itself, with only enough flour to make the dough workable. Using a floury potato and drying it after boiling limits the water, so less flour is needed and the dumplings stay tender. Overworked dough develops gluten and turns chewy.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Extra flour makes the dough springy and the dumplings heavy. 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.