For something like spaghetti aglio olio e peperoncino, I like serving that on a plate. I usually put big shrimp in it. Its easy to get off the plate and into your mouth. Lasagna goes on a plate.
For a sauce with ground meat, I like serving that in a pasta bowl, as I find it impossible to get all the sauce goodness into one's mouth from a plate.
Anyway, I like spaghetti and similar pastas Al-dente, but macaroni, ziti, etc...a little softer. Anything with a stuffing should also be a bit soft. Under-cooked pasta is too chewy and pasty. I find that worse than over-cooked pasta.
With the exception of lasagna or something like that, I tend to go with a bowl. I can't imagine eating many varieties of pasta without the side support that a bowl provides.
If it's just pasta and sauce, then in a bowl. If it's used as a bed for a piece of meat or is otherwise not the main course itself, then on a plate. And by bowl, I mean the wide ones with shallow angles to the rim.
I went with plate in my vote because I wanted to feel fancy. Sure, out in a restaurant it is going to be served on a plate, but at home give me a fucking bowl that I can just hold under my food hole and shovel shit into.
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