Welcome to the second episode in our Exploring Academia Barilla Culinary School series. Today we will follow Chef Matteo Carboni, who disappeared behind the doors of Academia at the end of the opening episode, to explore the Training Kitchen of our culinary school.
Chef Carboni will tell us all about the features of one of the eight cooking stations, and will spend a word also on some of the tools every cooking station is equipped with: KitchenAid tools.
Those tools, that perform a number of operations thanks to interchangeable accessories, have been gifted to the Academia Barilla Culinary School directly from KitchenAid, a partner of Academia Barilla, and are really the bread and butter of working in a kitchen, according to Chef Carboni who also call them “Chef’s best friends“.
After discovering some of the technologies of the Training Kitchen (we will cover more and more details over the next posts), Chef Carboni asked us to follow him in another lab full of technology, but to show us some traditional, manual pasta making tools, which we already discovered not long ago, as Matteo used them to make Garganelli pasta for April’s ingredient of the month’s recipe.
In the video above, Chef Matteo Carboni will offer us also a close look at both the traditional classic pasta making hand tool (the metal tool in the video, “the one every Italian grandmother has“, as Matteo says), and to Chitarra, an Italian regional traditional pasta making tool needed to make Rigatoni alla Chitarrra that looks - and sounds - like a guitar!
We also republish the previous Garganelli pasta video here below so you can see the Pettine (comb) tool in action.
More insights, chef tips and video explorations around the Academia Barilla Culinary School will be published soon here on our Italian Food Lovers blog, so stay tuned. We have booked Chef Matteo Carboni for more interviews tomorrow - just give us a little time to edit the movies and we’ll share them with you!
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Thank you for this lovely site!
I love the “pettine per i garganelli” comb tool. Do you know where can I buy one and have it shipped to Israel? Even second-hand.
Thank you!
Hi Asaf, thanks for your comment -
I had a look over the web and found this blog post about the garganelli pasta tool, and the references on how to get it - check it out!
http://fxcuisine.com/Default.asp?language=2&Display=113
Keep following our blog!
Massimo
Italian Food Lovers Editorial Team
http://www.italian-food-lovers.com
Hello: We have recently started useing a newly purchased Pasta attachment for the Kitchenaid Mixer to make noodles and other pasta’s. We are trying to locate a Pasta Drying Rack similar to the one we saw the Kitchenaid representative using at a Macy’s in our area. It was just a long probably 16-18″ long verticle rod of some sort with other rods that could be extended out to different widths to hang the noodles and pasta on to let it dry. I found one at a webside called Central Chef.com but when I try to order I get a notice that will not allow me to continue to checkout. Can you tell me of any stores locally in the Columbus Ohio area that I can purchase this item. Thank you for your assistance, Dan Goeller (614)-885-1578
Hello Dan,
I’m sorry but I can’t help you on this question.
You could ask to the web site you found or make a search on google with “Pasta Drying Rack” as key words.
Chato Morandi
Italian Food Lovers Editorial Team