Long cut pasta

Long pasta

Long pasta may be made by extrusion or rolling and cutting

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Type
Description
Translation
Barbina
Thin strands often coiled into nests
Little beards
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Bigoli
Thick tubes, often made of buckwheat or wholewheat flour
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Bucatini


A thick spaghetti-like pasta with a hole running through the center.
The name comes from Italian: buco, meaning "hole", while bucato means "pierced".
Capelli d'angelo
A synonym of capellini, they are coiled into nests
Angel hair
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Capellini
The thinnest type of long pasta
Literally "thin hair" in Italian language
Fedelini
A very thin spaghetti.
Little faithful ones
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Fusilli
Long, thick, corkscrew shaped pasta that may be solid or hollow. Hollow fusilli are also called fusilli bucati. Pictured is fusilli in a pesto sauce.
The word fusilli presumably comes from fuso, as traditionally it is "spun" by pressing and rolling a small rod over each thin strips of pasta to wind them around it in a corkscrew shape, much like a modern Turkish spindle. Long rifles.
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Fusilli bucati
Long coiled tubes that are hollow. Also called fusili col buco
Holed rifles
Matriciani
Similar to perciatelli, but folded over rather than hollowed out
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Pellizzoni
Thick spaghetti
Medium twines
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Perciatelli
Identical to bucatini.
From perciare "to hollow"
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Pici
Very thick, long, hand rolled pasta. It originates in theprovince of Siena in Tuscany; in the Montalcino area it is also referred to as pinci.
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Spaghetti
A long, thin, cylindrical pasta of Italian origin.Spaghetti is made of semolina or flour and water.
"Little strings."Spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning "thin string" or "twine".
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Spaghettini
Thin spaghetti
Small little twines
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Spaghettoni


A spaghetti that is extra thick or extra long.
Vermicelli
A traditional pasta round that is thicker than spaghetti. (refers in U.S. to a style thinner than spaghetti)
Worms 
Vermicelloni
Thick vermicelli
Large little worms
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Ziti
Long, narrow hose-like tubes sized smaller than rigatoni but larger than mezzani. The addition of the word rigati (e.g. ziti rigati) denotes lines or ridges on the pasta's surface.
Zito is Italian for "bridegroom." (Ziti is plural).
Zitoni
Wider version of Ziti
Large ziti

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