Editing Spaghetti (section)

===Fresh spaghetti===
[[File:Pasta machine 2.jpg|thumb|Fresh spaghetti being prepared using a pasta machine]]
Pasta can be made at home, cutting sheets of flattened dough with a knife into ribbons,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Pasta/?ALLSTEPS|title=Homemade Spaghetti|date=16 October 2008|work=Instructables.com|access-date=19 December 2014}}</ref> rather than spaghetti with circular cross-section. Some pasta machines have a spaghetti attachment with circular holes that extrude spaghetti, or shaped rollers that form cylindrical noodles.<ref name="Conran1997">{{cite book |last1=Conran |first1=Caroline |url=https://archive.org/details/essentialcookboo0000conr/page/238/mode/2up |title=The Essential Cook Book: The Back-to-basics Guide to Selecting, Preparing, Cooking, and Serving, the Very Best Of Food |location=New York, New York |publisher=Stewart, Tabori & Chang |year=1997 |pages=229,239 |isbn=978-1556706028 |accessdate=2024-08-15 }}</ref>

Spaghetti can be made by hand by manually rolling a ball of dough on a surface to make a long sausage shape. The ends of the sausage are pulled apart to make a long thin sausage. The ends are brought together and the loop pulled to make two long sausages. The process is repeated until the pasta is sufficiently thin. The pasta knobs at each end are cut off leaving many strands which may be hung up to dry.<ref name="Hand Pulling Noodle">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYZM_ZDZHlQ  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/TYZM_ZDZHlQ| archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=How To Make Hand-Pulled Noodles: Part 2 of 2, Pulling|author=Luke Rymarz|publisher=YouTube |date=24 June 2008}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Fresh spaghetti is usually cooked within hours of being formed. Commercial versions of fresh spaghetti are manufactured.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-17 |title=Fresh Spaghetti |url=https://www.metro.ca/en/online-grocery/aisles/pantry/herbs-spices-sauces/marinades-cooking-pastes/fresh-spaghetti/p/059749979818 |website=Metro}}</ref>