On Oct 4, 2:26�pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> I'm watching a Spanish language cooking show,
> and the chef is making gnocci in a way I've never
> seen before.
>
> He made a sheet of pasta using a pasta machine,
> cut it up into squares, then he used this tool
> I've never seen before. �The tool has two parts,
> a wooden rod about the diameter of a pencil
> and a wood block about 3 x 5 inches with a set
> of fine parallel grooves in the long dimension.
> He puts a square on the block oriented diagonally,
> then starting at corner of the square, he rolls
> the square onto the rod while pressing it against
> the block, resulting in a tube of pasta with
> grooves impressed into it.
>
> Hmmm . . . I wonder what that tool is called.
> I'd like to have one.
>
> I never thought I'd learn anything from the
> Spanish-language cooking shows, but this
> puts it ahead of Matha Stewart's Everyday Food.

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/...chi+boards&gcl
Here is the little grooved board I have used. I have not use a rod
with it.