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Originally Posted by
Piobaire 
I enjoy the results more than the process, but am very happy to go through the process to get the results. As an example, handmade pasta. Quite the pain to make, but the results? Makes it hard to ever eat dried pasta again. And if you eat it with say, homemade pesto? Oh man, hard to beat.
Fresh pasta isn't a substitute for dried pasta. In Italy, there is dried and fresh, and they are seen as different products. Dry pasta in Italy is made with durum wheat flour and water, fresh pasta has eggs.