Dan Pashman runs a food podcast called "The Sporkful", and he decided to create the "perfect" pasta.
He spent THREE YEARS researching. He interviewed experts and went to a place called the Pasta Lab at North Dakota State University where they develop new types of noodles. And after all of that, he came up with a shape he says is perfect.
It's called cascatelli, which means "waterfalls" in Italian. The pasta pieces almost look like rainbows, with a lot of hollow space on top to hold sauce.
Dan set three big criteria for the perfect pasta: How easy it is to get it on your fork . . . how well it holds sauce . . . and how satisfying it is when you bite into it. And cascatelli was the best noodle for all three.
Now a company called Sfoglini is selling the pasta.