Barilla Pasta Spaghetti No. 5 is on sale at 29% off - it seems a pretty decent price. (I know some would say Woolies Macro Organic Spaghetti Pasta 500g is cheaper and better value at $1.65) but it may still be a deal to others :D
Barilla Pasta Farfalle, 500g is also on sale - the same price as no. 5, except no minimum order.
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Or Jimmy O. Yang :P
Farfalle Getting 5.99aud for delivery
Wow, guess that's not a deal then, didn't know Amazon AU charges deliveries for things they sell. I shall update the post! Thanks :)
Yeha that is quite weird no worries
I bought these 2 weeks ago they arrived all broken inside
Spaghetto No. 1.25
Did you get in contact with customer service?
They refunded and pasta went in the bin. If I knew the two doenvoters I'd send it to them or their dogs
I had similar when I ordered a few months back - the packaging was damaged and pasta exposed. I've also seen that reported on one other Amazon deal.
I'm not sure why the down votes, maybe they feel you didn't provide enough information.
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Is it the OzBargain thing to buy the 'home brand' eqv spaghetti or pasta at $0.99 ish? Can anyone attest to better flavour from different dried pasta brands?
Yes, I have bought 5 to try. The kids like Angel Hair but looks like they're getting No.5 for the next couple of months … Poor them.
La molisana and Cucina Matese are supposed to be decent and significantly better than Barilla (which is pretty crap apparently)
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They might be better but they are not supposed to be. I still prefer Barilla but I have an Italian tooth
It's not necessarily the taste but the texture and the way it cooks. For uneducated mouths anything will work, more or less like mine when I cook an Asian dish
It's to do with the starch content. If you're cooking pasta dishes that don't use cream and rely on pasta water to thicken the sauce, then La Molisana is better than Barilla. Due to the fast manufacturing process (drying, in particular) of Barilla pasta (so they can produce the amount they do), natural starches from semolina are gone. You can't thicken pasta sauce using Barilla pasta water alone. Barilla is not considered higher-end brand pasta in the country it comes from, they just have a great marketing team in Australia and the price point suggests that they are. In Italy, they're the equivalent of our San Remo brand, a pasta brand you can find anywhere. Nowadays, due to better knowledge, La Molisana and Rummo are more available in Australia for people who like their spaghetti carbonara the way it's done in Italy (without bucketloads of cream, thank you). The texture of the pasta also comes into play as the slower manufacturing process often results in a rougher pasta surface (not immediately visible to the eye usually) that gives more surface area for sauce to cling to. So it all depends on what you cook and how you like your pasta. Note: I use Pasta di Liguria spaghetti for carbonara for best results, not La Molisana. La Molisana is good, but if I'm going to eat something so calorific (and high cholesterol) I want it out of this world amazing hahaha
I share your kids' love for angel hair for my bolognese and for this, I use Barilla. Such thin pasta doesn't work well with a slower drying process and the thinner the pasta, the more sauce you pick up each forkful. Yumm…
I am Italian from Italy and Barilla is number one in any sense with De Cecco, you are too sure of too many things. The more starch the less al dente the final result. I saw Americans cutting spaghetti and eating with a spoon so there is room for everyone and everyone's opinions, included yours.
@Laziofogna: Barilla is number one only in the sense of sales. Just like tavernello wine.
It’s just another mass produced brand, with inferior wheat, poor manufacturing and insane marketing.
‘The more starch the less al dente’ does not make sense either.
Plenty of far superior pastas from the Gragnano region readily available in supermarkets across Australia!
@Hasbulla: But she said she is Italian, can't argue with that. That's even better than someone that spent 5 years getting a degree in a specialist field in university.
Limited to 6
Interesting, all the promotional material is in Spanish.
It isn't bad, but this should be the normal price. It's just as good as Woolies Macro Organic, and better San Remo
Good deal for Roger…