The Technical Difference Between Machine And Handmade Pasta - Chowhound

That texture from handmade pasta is important: Often, the difference between expensive spaghetti and cheap spaghetti is how much texture the noodles have. Cheap, mass-produced pasta looks almost unnaturally smooth, and sauce rolls off it more easily. Nearly any sauce does a better job of sticking to rough and chalky pasta. So hand-rolling can be a much cheaper way to get that sort of pasta than shelling out for…