Explore 8 articles tagged “cacio e pepe”.
8 articlesCacio e pepe comes down to cheese and black pepper, yet almost every failure has one cause — a pan that's too hot when the cheese goes in. Eight chefs split into three schools for that moment.
Ogura mixes Parmigiano into raw egg for carbonara, where shred size decides whether it melts evenly. In his cacio e pepe, cheese is just grated over the top — so fineness matters far less.
Italia Squisita's original cacio e pepe gives no water volume or salt amount — just "enough salt" and water used "sparingly." Its amatriciana browns guanciale in a dry, blazing-hot pan instead.
Pasta Grammar's carbonara cuts pasta-water salt in half and emulsifies on residual pasta heat alone, no pan over the flame. Cacio e pepe rests off the heat three minutes before the cheese goes in.
Vincenzo's Plate emulsifies both carbonara and cacio e pepe off direct heat, with the pan suspended over the pasta pot's steam. His 2026 cacio e pepe drops salt entirely.
Three channels all calling themselves traditionalist put 25g, 37.5g, and 50g of cheese per 100g of pasta into cacio e pepe — the middle one is half Pecorino, half Parmigiano.
A 2025 physics study found sauce stability turns on starch as a share of cheese mass: under 1% splits, 2-3% is ideal, over 4% stiffens. Kenji cuts the water; the paper's own fix is powdered starch.
One Roman amatriciana uses 20g of Pecorino Romano DOP per 100g of pasta — the highest ratio we could confirm for the dish. Buying it as a wedge, in our view, keeps more of the aroma.
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