Don't make the same mistake I did with this recipe: I selected grams instead of volume and trusted the conversion of 2 cups of flour to 241 grams. Wrong! This was far too wet a dough for making any kind of pasta. I make a lot of pasta, and always measure by weight instead of volume--it's far more accurate and easy to manage. A cup of flour--scoop and sweep--weighs about 150 grams, so I should have used 300 grams of flour for this recipe. I worked as much flour as possible into the dough while kneading but once a pasta dough is out of balance, it's very difficult to bring it back to what it should be. My noodles were so sticky after cutting that there's no way they wouldn't stick together, so I had to go directly from the pasta machine into boiling water to avoid disaster. By all means, weigh your ingredients. Just don't trust the conversion factor from this website.

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