Selecting the wheat
Selecting excellent primary materials is the first step, the most important one in fact, in creating unique pasta.
Semolino
De Cecco Semolino in 250 g packs is a product that meets all the criteria for the quality, care and attention that De Cecco dedicates to its products. It is made only from the very core of the wheat, ground in our mill and is a true distillate, whose extraction occurs during the first steps of the milling cycle. It has many uses and is ideal in hot soups and for preparing gnocchi and home-made pasta.
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Our method
Attention, care, experience, quality at every stage: from our mill to your table.
The milling
We have been millers for almost two centuries: way back in 1831, Don Nicola De Cecco was already producing “the best flour in the county” in his mill. To this day, we grind all the wheat in our own mill next to the pasta factory, floating with intense and delicious aromas.
The dough
Cold water and dough at a temperature of less than 15 degrees: two details allowing us to produce pasta that fully respects the primary material.
Drawing
While it is the drawing process that gives the pasta its shape, it is the rough die that make our pasta uniquely porous, so it captures all the sauce. Hence, this is one of the special procedures we have chosen to preserve and protect. With great pride.
Drying
Another of the secrets behind our pasta is slow drying at low temperature. It is our way of keeping the sensory properties of the wheat intact.
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Hints
It is a good idea to cook this rice until all the cooking liquid has been absorbed and then let it cool by spreading it out on a clean, cold plate (rather than subjecting it to the thermal shock of putting it under the cold tap).
Vacuum-packing prevents the rice from changing and preserves the colour, flavour and nutritional values of the grain.
