What It Means When Pasta Is 'Bronze Cut' And Why It's A Green Flag - Chowhound

Luca Lorenzelli/Shutterstock As it turns out, the pasta you buy in the grocery store isn't hand rolled by hundreds of Italian nonnas (it's okay to be disappointed). Instead, the pasta is extruded — raw, soft pasta dough is pushed out of a mold into shapes. Some of those shapes are long and round, becoming spaghetti, some of those shapes are twisty, getting cut into pasta varieties like gemelli, and some are round…