Review on 🍝 Large Wooden Pasta Drying Rack by Bellemain by Divya Flood

I'm not a newbie to pasta making. Growing up in an Italian family and being a second-generation American, fresh pasta made up a big part of our Sunday lunches. I've been making fresh pasta for more than decades than I'm about to reveal here. The reduction to science was a "process". When I got married I continued the tradition by upgrading my machine twice, first from my grandmother's old cast iron machine, straight out of the Old Country, to a pasta machine and in the last 15 years to an extrusion machine. However, what never really changed was what to do with the finished pasta, especially during the wet summer months when sticking was a common and annoying problem. The same applies to the pasta sheets before cutting them with the pasta roller. It was strange. I would bring folding chairs into the kitchen to hang pasta on. I've made an unholy mess. The kitchen was like a junkyard, between all the shabby folding chairs, draped pasta, tiny bits of pasta everywhere, and flour strewn on the floor (not to mention the dust on my face and clothes). Enter this paste. Dryer. I got it just before Christmas Eve, for which I traditionally make white wine seafood sauce with fettuccine spinach. So we unboxed it that day and found that assembly is so easy that even I, the first mechanical nerd, could put it together and power it up in a few minutes. Each dowel is slightly narrower at one end so you always know which one to insert into the hole in the post. The base is wide and strong enough to keep the rack balanced even when only one or two arms are loaded with pasta, and they never wobble. I started uploading it. Each of the 8 branches (4 dowels that go through holes in the B pillar midway where they make 8 branches) are long enough to hold a lot of noodles. I did a quad batch and only had to unload 4 hands into a clean smooth dish towel. But by this point, they were dry enough to remain fully separated. Best of all: The small pieces of dough that always fall down weren't on the floor, just on the counter, directly under the counter. No dirty floors! The shelf was dismantled just as quickly as it was reassembled. Reverse the process by removing the 4 anchors and then unscrewing the center post from the base. All parts fit easily back into the slim box, which takes up minimal pantry space when stored on the side. Since the pasta dough did not stick and the day was not wet, there was no need to wash the grate. However, if you find that your dough is wet enough for the noodles to stick to it, washing the basket parts should be a very simple matter with hot soapy water and an old toothbrush to clean if necessary. Process spanning decades, I was pleasantly surprised that this device made the task so much easier and neater. This is the BOMB! I only wish I had found it sooner.