/ck/ - Food & Cooking

People crave variety, probably as an instinctive trait to ensure balanced nutrition. As much as you love Alfredo sauce, eat it every day for a couple weeks, and that marinara will start to look a lot tastier!

>American Italian food

Jesus christ you people are basic.

>>5781711
But Alfredo sauce is still inherently better

>>5781714

The dish was named by Alfredo Di Lelio I, a restaurateur who opened and operated restaurants in Rome, Italy, throughout the early to mid 20th century.[1] While the term "Fettuccine Alfredo" is especially popular in the United States, in Italy the dish is largely unknown under that name. The American version of Fettuccine Alfredo is usually richer and very different from the original recipe created by Alfredo Di Lelio I.

>>5781705
ever had a white pizza OP? I think you'll find heaven when you try it. topping suggestions are grilled chicken, mushroom, and spinach

>>5781705
Alfredo is good and I prefer it usually, but if I'm making it at home, I can't do alfredo but I love my marinara.

>>5782816

>can't do alfredo

It's literally two ingredients. Melted clarified butter with parmesan cheese (i personally prefer pecorino romano because i have a fuck ton of it) and add to pasta. far easier than marinara

the wild american is repulsed by anything containing an actual vegetable. It's okay, we know you have a dependency on butter and cheese.

>>5781727
Yeah, it is.

>>5782834

>no cream

k.

>>5782838
>tomato
>vegetable
pick one retard

what if i told you

that

i like both

would it be too much for you to handle

>>5782847

the original "alfredo sauce" aka pasta al burro was created using only butter and cheese. cream is an americanization

>>5781705
I actually just got done making alfredo sauce from scratch. It was my first sauce ever, and I hated it. I also somehow fucked up the noodles despite following the direction on the bag. I feel retarded and depressed, like I never want to cook again.

>>5782854

lel, no. Pasta al burro is just butter pasta.

Fettuccine with salsa bianco is a better candidate for the forebear of alredo.

>>5782856

tell your ego to STFU and try again.

>>5781705
I don't see how anyone in their right mind would prefer alfredo sauce over Pesto Sauce on pasta

>>5782865

it MEANS pasta with butter but all recipes call for cheese.

>>5782879

sure, absolutely. that doesn't mean that it's alfredo sauce. your attempts at authenticity are misguided and laughable.

>>5782873
>pesto
>sauce
Pick one.

>>5782886

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettuccine_Alfredo

>>5781705
Because it's healthier? Most restaurants just use Heavy Cream in their alfredo sauce. Heavy Cream is 40% fat.

>>5782988
but pesto is a sauce and it's really damn nice on a pizza

>>5782850
Speaking culinarily, it is.

>>5782856
Don't see how you fuck up the pasta itself. Alfredo sauce I came to find out is simple but it's hard to make it thick and creamy. The stuff I make is pretty thin

>>5783027
yeah but you don't say "pesto sauce" just "pesto"

>>5783022
>Heavy Cream is 40% fat.
then just eat 40% of the alfredo, instead of 100% of marinara

>>5783031
Speaking with words and definitions it isn't.

All sane people enjoy pasta sauce
in the following order from best to least best:

bolognese
carbonara
marinara
alfredo

>>5783174
The botanical sense of the word fruit is the secondary meaning, when compared with the culinary meaning.

And vegetable has no botanical meaning at all.

>saturated fat: the sauce

I'm not the one to go FAT IS BAD FOR YOU, but come on. There's a difference between including fat in your diet and pouring what essentially amounts to butter over your pasta.

>>5782856
Like all pursuits in cooking, keep trying, anon.
For the pasta, once it becomes flaccid start tasting it every 30s-1minute, and drain it immediately when it's to your liking (once you get it down you might want to remove a bit earlier, as there will be a bit of carryover cooking).

>>5783031
Confirmed for never having tasted tomatoes.

>>5783201
Wrongo shithead

>Tomato fruit is classified as a berry. As a true fruit, it develops from the ovary of the plant after fertilization, its flesh comprising the pericarp walls. The fruit contains hollow spaces full of seeds and moisture, called locular cavities. These vary, among cultivated species, according to type. Some smaller varieties have two cavities, globe-shaped varieties typically have three to five, beefsteak tomatoes have a great number of smaller cavities, while paste tomatoes have very few, very small cavities.

For propagation, the seeds need to come from a mature fruit, and be dried or fermented before germination.

>>5782773
In Italy it is called "pasta in bianco", and I assure you that nobody eats it. Apart from some rare meals in elementary school, I've never seen it in any restaurant or household.

>>5785135
its generally for when you're sick anon. I feel sorry for you if you never had some mild and savory pasta in bianco when you're feeling ill.

>>5785135
muh authenticity

>>5782834

Gunna have to call bullshit here. I looked on the ingredient list on my alfredo sauce and it contains soybean oil and no butter.

>>5785135
I always thought it was a food for picky eaters.
I had a classmate in elementary school who would only eat sandwiches filled with a couple slices of prosciutto cotto (which she bought from home and stank terribly) and pasta in bianco.

>>5785080
do you even reading comprehension? that wikipedia snippet means jack shit to a chef. now type the same shit for the word vegetable

I can think of two reasons.
>I'm vegan.
>I'm lactose intolerant/I have a dairy allergy.
I'm neither of those things, but there you go. Two reasons why someone whould choose marinara over alfredo.

>>5781705
Because it's just mac and cheese disguised as something fancier for grown ups.

>>5787497
>>expecting the jar ingredients to be the same
retard alert.

>>5787497

Well that's because you have shitty premade alfredo sauce.

Why would you buy that when it's so easy to make it?

>>5781705
Why would I have to choose? I prefer rose myself but I suppose that would just BLOW your mind OP

Because a tomato-based sauce can usually end up more chunky and stew-like and I enjoy that aspect to my pasta dishes.

Maybe they don't want to die of a heart attack after eating their meal

>>5787911
Is it supposed to stink?