Does it get too dry? Go stale?

Is there something that makes dried pasta unable to rehydrate?

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[–] 9 points 4 months ago

In my experience the pasta breaks apart more the older it gets during the cooking process. The end result of a particularly old box of rotini looks more like the fragments at the bottom of a bag of tortilla chips that are too small to dip with.

My personal cutoff is about 1.5-2 years after expiration

Never had an issue with taste though

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