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Article: Quick-start lasagna No-boil noodles win favor of home cooks
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 2, 2000
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When no-boil "instant" lasagna noodles hit supermarket shelves
five years ago, some home cooks were skeptical. How can you layer
sheets of raw pasta into a lasagna pan without boiling them first?
Rather than risk a tray full of precious ingredients, they passed up
the convenience and continued to parboil their noodles.
Others threw caution to the wind and substituted the stiff-as-a-
board pasta into their lasagna recipes. It worked. And those home
cooks have never looked back. Ronzoni, the largest U.S. maker of
"oven ready" no-boil lasagna noodles, now sells one box of no-boil
for every five boxes of traditional lasagna noodles.
"Our oven-ready noodles have been one of our best pasta ...