The difference
Cavatelli vs Lumache
Both cup a sauce, but cavatelli is a hand-rolled hollow, a short dough log dragged into a rough little trough, while lumache is an extruded ridged shell curled like a snail. Cavatelli is open along its length, lumache closes into a shell with one mouth. Hand against die, trough against shell.
Cavatelli
- Family
- Hand-formed regional
- Size
- not yet measured
- Surface
- Textured
- Cook
- 15 to 18 min
Wants: Sausage ragu, Broccoli rabe, Tomato sauce
Lumache
- Family
- Shaped shorts
- Size
- not yet measured
- Surface
- Ridged
- Cook
- 12 to 13 min
Wants: Ragu, Chunky vegetable sauce, Cheese sauce
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