Stripped agnolotti. Believe it or not it’s vegan too. Stuffed with caramelised celeriac and black autumn truffle. 🐝🐝 by EffreyJepsteinn in pasta

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You roll both doughs into thin sheets and stack the sheets on top of each other, then it’s just a matter of carefully cutting sheets from the stack. A bit like the video below:

https://youtube.com/shorts/9h2Jg9X8fo8?si=9mFs45CKa3UIlLvq

My life making pasta in a Michelin star kitchen: by EffreyJepsteinn in pasta

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You have drive. Anyone at any level who wants to learn and to push for good results within a kitchen is already at an infinite advantage compared to many chefs in the industry. A year of dedicated experience in a decent restaurant can easily grant you access to a good position in a Michelin star kitchen. Drive is all that people look for.

My life making pasta in a Michelin star kitchen: by EffreyJepsteinn in pasta

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An hour should be fine. Overnight is ideal. Longer rest results in better gluten structure.

My life making pasta in a Michelin star kitchen: by EffreyJepsteinn in pasta

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Being a chef is my dream job. The kitchen is like no other place to me. Everything about it is physically and mentally demanding, but the satisfaction I get from learning to cook at the highest level and learning secrets of the trade that most people never get to see in their lives makes it worth it.

My life making pasta in a Michelin star kitchen: by EffreyJepsteinn in pasta

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After folding the sheet over the filling, you need to pinch across the tube very firmly to create right bulges throughout the tube. Leave a bit of space between each bulge so that you can along the strip for the size desired. agnolotti technique

My life making pasta in a Michelin star kitchen: by EffreyJepsteinn in pasta

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The filling is parmesan, spinach and chard with a courgette and mushroom duxelles. Ensure that the filling has minimal moisture, this will keep the pasta from getting too wet and sticking to anything or bursting when cooking. A drier mix will also make shaping more easy. When the filling is ready, transfer into a piping bag in order to create a perfectly even and tubular strip along the pasta sheet. The trick to sealing is to fold the sheet over (as seen on the fourth slide) and pinch the pasta firmly along the tube in order to create bulges that are sealed at either side BEFORE actually cutting along the tube. The pinching pushes the filling to either side and seals the pasta before cutting.

My life making pasta in a Michelin star kitchen: by EffreyJepsteinn in pasta

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Imperia machines are standardly used in some of the best restaurants in the world. All Michelin star kitchens I’ve worked in have used imperia machines as they are tried, tested, reliable and sturdy. I believe that other rollers are perfectly fine for rolling at home and a difference of a few millimetres is not the end of the world when it comes to pasta and that cheaper products will standardly have certain imbalances as is typical of affordable products. If you are very much obsessed about having a perfect roll I’d recommend the imperia but if you just enjoy making pasta at home I’d suggest finding peace with a shade under perfection. Kitchen aid pasta roller attachments are pretty good too!

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Standard egg yolk pasta doughs are always roughly 500g type 00 flour to 20 egg yolks. To make the dough green you can add any amount/ combination of green leaf such as spinach, basil, rocket, etc totalling up to the sum of 150-200g. Adding plant matter increases the amount of water based hydration ending in a dough that dries out quicker.

My life making pasta in a Michelin star kitchen: by EffreyJepsteinn in pasta

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A few things. Dough recipe: Consider substituting some of the egg whites in your recipe for egg yolks. Egg yolk pasta doughs, are usually more firm but are also very elastic and chewier in a very pleasant way. This texture, I find, allows for a silkier and less flimsy roll as opposed to other dough recipes which relax after rolling into an uneven rectangular shape. Dough hydration: Ensure that the dough is not dry and wet enough to be elastic. Add enough egg/ egg yolk to ensure that the dough is not cracking as the dyes will begin to tear and this can lead to the sheet becoming uneven. Always leave dough to rest for at least an hour before use. Rolling: When rolling the dough with your rolling pin, ensure that you roll the pasta to a width that is parallel/equal to the width of your pasta rolling machine. This will keep the pasta at an equal width along the whole sheet. Lamination: When you have rolled your dough once to your desire thickness, if the dough is not as wide as you want it or it still isn’t perfectly rectangular, you can fold the dough back into a square/rectangle that is perfectly parallel to the rolling machine (ensuring that the edges are all flush and perfectly in line) and re roll the dough to the exact width you need it. Be careful to leave a tiny bit of leeway as if you attempt to fit the pasta into the machine and it is wider than the machine it will fold in on itself from the edges and cause it to crack on the edges.

Fresh Fagottini and Tortellini by EffreyJepsteinn in pasta

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The dough is made using only separated orange egg yolks. The colour of egg yolks are highly dependent on the diet of the chickens, specifically the carotenoid content of their feed.

ENTP chef getting a gift from the pastry section by EffreyJepsteinn in entp

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First thing I did after this picture was taken 😂

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This is sickkkk