Tagliapasta

What to know about shopping at Tagliapasta

Tagliapasta is a family workshop in Molinella, just outside Bologna, selling the tools used to make pasta and pastry by hand. The catalog is organized by what the tool does rather than by brand: wheel cutters for pasta and ravioli, boards and rolling pins, ravioli molds and stamps, drying racks, small pasta machines, and a separate HACCP-compliant line aimed at professional kitchens. Everything is made in Italy, which is the store’s whole proposition rather than a marketing line.

The cutters are where most of the range sits, and the material is the real decision. Brass is the traditional choice and the one that gives the fluted edge its characteristic bite. Steel is the hardest wearing. Food-grade Delrin is the lightest and the easiest to clean, and it is what the HACCP line is largely built from. None is straightforwardly better — brass wants drying by hand and will patinate, while Delrin will not, so the honest way to choose is by how you expect to wash and store it rather than by price.

The boards and rolling pins are worth reading dimensions on carefully, because they are sized for real pasta work rather than general kitchen use — the birch boards run to a meter across, and the rolling-pin covers are sold by length to match. If you are equipping a home kitchen rather than a restaurant, check the measurement against your counter before ordering; this is the most common way to end up with something unusable in an otherwise well-chosen order.

On savings, this is a small Italian maker rather than a discounter, so expect occasional seasonal offers rather than a standing code. Two practical points matter more than any discount here. Free shipping applies to orders within Italy only, so a US order pays carrier-quoted shipping that is calculated from the weight and volume of the cart and shown at checkout once you enter an address. The store also states that prices exclude customs duties and export taxes, which can be charged on arrival. Grouping everything into one order is the single most effective way to keep the total down, since separate orders are charged shipping separately.

— MoneySaverCodes Team