Fresh pasta doesn't swell much at all. In fact if you are cooking a homemade pasta recipe made from scratch you should only cook it about 1-3 minutes. The best way to tell if it's done is when it begins to float to the top of the boiling water.
A dry to cooked pasta calculator helps you figure out the amount of dry pasta needed to make a specific quantity of cooked pasta for your recipe. Simply enter the desired cooked pasta amount and the calculator will tell you how much dry pasta to use.
maybe half a pot
Dried pasta has a better shelf live. Fresh pasta will cook much faster. Fresh pasta has to be refrigerated while dried pasta can be kept on the shelf.
The amount of pasta that equals a gallon can vary depending on the type of pasta and whether it's dry or cooked. Generally, 1 gallon of dry pasta weighs about 4 to 5 pounds, which translates to approximately 16 to 20 cups of dry pasta, depending on the shape. When cooked, pasta expands significantly, so a gallon of cooked pasta would require much less dry pasta to achieve the same volume.
100g of dried pasta makes about 240g of cooked pasta. So roughly 40g
there are 1g of sugar
Dried pasta has a better shelf live. Fresh pasta will cook much faster. Fresh pasta has to be refrigerated while dried pasta can be kept on the shelf. Fresh pasta is typically made in smaller batches and can be created with more variety.
Generally about 200 calories per serving, which is pretty much the same as with cooked pasta.
One pound of dry pasta equals 2.5 pounds of cooked pasta.
A standard serving size of fresh pasta per person for a meal is about 2 ounces.
Pasta about doubles in size once cooked, so if you need 2c I suggest boiling a little over 1c of pasta.
Semolina (durum wheat) flour and water. Pasta all'uovo also contains eggs. Pasta may be secca (dried) or fresca (fresh). Fresh pasta cooks much more quickly than dried.