Penne and ziti are both short, tubular pastas. Ziti has a smooth texture and a straight cut with thin walls, while penne has ...

The trickiest choices are when two shapes seem pretty similar. Take penne and ziti, for example. Is there any real difference between these two? Can you just swap one for the other? Here, we break ...

Ziti is a little longer, thicker and is evenly straight across on the ends. Penne pasta, which is also a tube pasta, has ridges that hold sauce and angled ends. Penne is also used a lot in penne ...