Friday, 16 May 2025

And Now For Something Completely Different

These very cool GIFs of mechanized production of extruded pasta were
made by David Square MA and are found on his blog Fencehopping.

Oddly mesmerizing, aren't they?


41 comments:

  1. ...thanks, I'm a;ways interested in how things are made!

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  2. You wouldn’t want to be seeing these if you have had a tad too much to drink.
    Lol

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  3. Very cool Everone needs one of those! Gigi

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  4. We could watch those for hours.

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  5. SO THATS how they are made!!!! I guess I'm completely mesmerized by pasta and penis gifs!!!

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  6. Absolutely mesmerizing. I can’t stop watching.

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  7. Whoa.
    This answers so many questions I’ve always have!

    XOXO

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  8. I'd like to have this kind of machine 👍😃

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  9. Hypnotic
    Put one on the big screen next time my brain is too overactive.

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  10. At first I thought the pasta shapes were falling onto the metal plate. Not the swiftest this morning:)

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  11. That was so satisfying.*Sigh*

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  12. I never knew that was the way pasta was made into its various shapes. Interesting.

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  13. These are almost hypnotic.

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  14. I always wondered how they got the shapes and how they managed to be so perfectly uniform.

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  15. That's a lot faster than when I make pasta! Very clever design.

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  16. I always wondered how they made those shapes...oh but they can't compare to my handmade gnocchi, ravioli, and manicotti crepes.

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  17. I say clever, but what would a Nonna say? Haha.

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  18. They are mesmerizing! Really mesmerizing…really…mesmerizing…

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  19. Reminds me of those things you pushed Play Doh through!

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  20. Wow, who knew that extruding pasta would be creepy and hypnotizing at the same time?

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  21. I love a 'how things are made' video! Thank you!!

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  22. reminded me of one of my favourite things to watch.... it's basically various things going through a hydraulic press and being crushed...... or the guy in america who unblocks drains - mesmerising

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  23. Interesting and hypnotic.

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  24. Put it this way, if I had to work on a factory production line, this would be the best factory for me lol! Betty

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  25. Why are they all falling to the bottom of the picture?! 😁

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    1. @ Mike -- Good ask! I suspect the GIFs have been rotated and that the actual pasta machines are horizontally aligned, so that the cut extruded pasta will fall down into a bin or perhaps conveyer belt or somethng for the next step, which is probably drying to harden it.

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  26. Martita en EspañaSaturday, May 17, 2025

    I really appreciate all of your daily posting. Thank you very much - I've dropped all news and political sites. Your site gives me just a taste of dopamine in the morning! Peace, ya'll.

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    1. @ Martita en Espana -- Thank you! If you enjoy my goofy posts, then my job is done!

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  27. It's the infinite feeling of it that gets me.

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  28. Okay this is how the various shapes of the pasta are made wow
    Really interesting and fun to watch 🤗♥️

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  29. This is quite mesmerizing.

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  30. I would LOVE that noodle cutter. How much fun. I did recently hunt for one to use at home. I'd like it for bean/seed noodles.

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  31. Kind of creepy but interesting!

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  32. I find them disturbing! Like worms and creepy things in a graveyard. I had no idea that this was how the pasta shapes were made.

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