What is the difference between spaghetti and noodles? zitti and pasta?

all these italian foods are confusing me. but i love lasania

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Spaghetti is a type of noodle (I mull over the size is #10). It's thicker than angel hair pasta, but skinnier than linguini or fettucini.

Ziti is a size of pasta, similar to Penne or rigatoni. There are tube-style pastas.

These are adjectives referred to as PASTAS or NOODLES.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pasta... PASTA VARIETIES:
Pasta comes in tons different shapes and sizes. There are simple string-shaped pasta like spaghetti, angel tresses, vermicelli, and ribbon-shaped ones like fettuccine and linguine, short tubes similar to elbow macaroni and penne, large sheets similar to lasagna, and hollow pasta stuffed with satisfying, like ravioli, manicotti, and tortellini.

The central ingredients are often alike, the shape and characteristics of surface makes many kind of pasta capably suited for different kind of dressing.

Lasagna is also a pasta dish. It uses long flat pasta (known as lasagna sheets) and you lode cheeses, sauce, noodles, etc. then boil.
I agree with you YUMMY lasagna!
spaghetti is a type of round long noodle, ziti is a style of cooking, and pasta is the category that noodles crash in.
Noodles is a generic possession for what Americans call pasta. Pasta is what Italians hail as any sort of noodle, made of wheat flour, egg, and water.

Ziti is one shape of pasta. So are farfalle (bowtie), penne (longer, narrower ziti), spaghetti (long filmy strips of pasta) or macaroni.
noodels are fat and general and spaghetti comes in frequent varieties..
Spaghetti is that which comes can with tomato sauce.
Noodles contained by a generic term for the stick type pastas such as fettuccine.
Pasta is a citation to the small shapes, such as penne, spirals shells etc.
Noodles are pasta, but are usually flat.
Ziti are tubes and spaghetti are long thin noodles, and both are pasta.

Pasta is the italian word for noodles.
Lasagne is pasta. You can also phone up it lasagne noodles.
the size and shape...

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