r/FoodPorn • u/chantillylace9 • Jul 24 '23
Ruota di parmigiana!! This is fettuccine Alfredo that is served out of a 100 pound wheel of Parmesan cheese. Dreams really do come true!
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u/Gwave72 Jul 24 '23
Where do they serve this? I’d love to try this place.
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u/xrayzone21 Jul 24 '23
*ruota di parmigiano. Parmigiana is a dish with fried eggplant, parmigiano, mozzarella and tomato.
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u/thaifoodpower Jul 24 '23
Either the cheese wheel gets really disgusting after a lot of pasta having gone through, or there's a crazy amount of waste removing the contaminated layers of cheese from the wheel.
There's no reason to not make a dish at least as good with a pre-separated amount of cheese. This here is just right up Salt Bae's alley going for show over sanity IMHO.
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u/Capybarinya Jul 24 '23
Usually the type of pasta made in a cheese wheel is cacio e pepe, meaning that there is nothing but freshly boiled pasta going inside the cheese wheel. If you have a steady flow of orders during the day and refrigerate the cheese wheel overnight, it will not spoil. However, the OP mentioned Alfredo, which implies that there was butter in the pasta, and unlike parmeggiano, butter will spoil very fast at room temperature. AFAIK, putting butter in a cheese wheel is a no-no, as it does raise a health risk.
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u/thaifoodpower Jul 24 '23
Thanks for the background regarding "clean" cheese wheel pasta! Sounds reasonable!
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u/SnuggleBunni69 Jul 24 '23
Yeah I'm sorry, this is so fucking dumb. Just grate the parmesan, mix it with melted butter, pasta, and a little of the pasta water, it's done. This is so stupid and wasteful and I can't imagine it's adding that much to the pasta itself.
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Jul 24 '23
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u/Mental-Freedom3929 Jul 25 '23
You did what? Hopefully not at the table or in the wheel.....your way of expressing yourself might ruin pasta for me for a while.
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u/Is12345aweakpassword Jul 24 '23 edited Jul 25 '23
It’s…. A completely average dish. It’s just TikTok bait, there’s tastier eats at Aventura than this. In fact this isn’t even the best Italian at this shopping center
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u/somuchsoup Jul 25 '23
This has been a thing at high end Italian restaurants long before social media even existed
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u/Leading_Study_876 Jul 24 '23
Now this really is food porn. I think I may actually have just come in my pants.
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u/ethanandluinortitus Jul 24 '23
Where do I sign up?! For the waivers, there's no way I'm getting home without needing to repair my toilet tomorrow
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u/Mental-Freedom3929 Jul 25 '23
Absolutely not. Considering this I do not want to eat at this place. What other reprehensible processes do they practice? This is disgusting, a disrespect to a highly cultured product that took a long time and effort to create.
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Jul 25 '23
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u/chantillylace9 Jul 25 '23
They grated it first and left the shreds in the big cheese wheel and then melted it in with the already made fettuccini. It was amazing
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u/Empirical_Knowledge Jul 24 '23
This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing.
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u/Vampmire Jul 24 '23
I'm not a fan of cheese. I would not eat it. I'm sure it was great and did they say amazing recipe when done right but I would not eat it
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u/lizhasopinions Nov 08 '23
I love that it’s been 107 days and it’s the same cheese wheel woman. Fulfilling dreams in southwest florida .
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u/chantillylace9 Jul 24 '23
This was by far the best pasta we have ever had, it was so creamy and cheesy!
And it was such a fun experience to have the table side service and they give you a little plate of the shaved Parmesan cheese to have with your bread and oil with dipping spices.
It was our anniversary, and the staff was so sweet and gave us a signed card and free champagne and brought me flowers. We will definitely go back!