What's the best brand of pasta and is homemade pasta worth the trouble?

I like DeCecco

It is totally worth the trouble.

Homemade everything is worth the trouble. Give making pasta a try, it’s not too hard. I made it once without a pasta maker and it was still edible, wasn’t great but meh.

Home made pasta is simple and worth it. My husband and I have fun when we make it. We open a bottle of Chianti, play Italian music, sing, laugh, and in the end, have a great dinner !

Spinach and whole wheat pasta are both made with some durum semolina; if you try to make pasta with 100% whole wheat, you’re going to break a tooth.

Barilla is one of the better dry pasta companies, although I wouldn’t bother with their dry tortellini.

Some delis have fresh pasta; that’s a good alternative. It’s usually sold in refrigerators, and that’s where you want to go for spinach pasta or tomato pasta or whole wheat pasta.

And yes, homemade pasta is fantastic, and a hand-cranked pasta maker makes a huge difference in how easy it is to produce.

I have two friends who insisted home made pasta was no trouble and you could make it in less time than it took the water to boil.

They were right, and it was fantastic.

There is just no mach for home made pizza, so far I have found to pre made pizza that can live up to it.

I made pasta just the other day. 3 cups semolina, 2 tsp salt, and 3/4 cup warm water. Mix and kneed for about 10 minutes. Roll it out as flat as you can, and cut it into ribbons with a pizza cutter. Cooks up al dente and delicious.