30 DAYS OPEN PURCHASEThere's a moment in every pasta dough's life that decides everything. The flour lies in a crater on the worktop, the eggs have just been cracked into the middle and it's time to start bringing them together. That's where the Il Tarocco dough scraper belongs – in your hand, in the motion, in the quiet scrape against the worktop as flour and egg slowly become dough.
Il Tarocco is a dough scraper, but calling it just that would be like calling a fountain pen a pen. It's cut from a single piece of solid canaletto walnut, the dark American walnut with almost black veins that wind through the wood like ink through water. No two scrapers are alike. It sits lightly in the hand, just 90 grams, and rests against the palm as if it had always belonged there. With the edge you divide the dough into even portions in a single, decisive press.
When the dough is done, you scrape the work surface clean in a few light strokes, then hang it up by the hole in the side. It's meant to be seen. The walnut takes on a deeper lustre over the years, especially if you give it a little oil now and then, and in time it bears the marks of every pasta dough, bread and pizza base it has been part of. That's how a tool becomes yours.
Il Tarocco is part of Marcato's Heritage range, inspired by the kitchen tools found in Italian homes during the 20th century, but in a darker, more refined interpretation. Marcato has been making kitchen tools in Campodarsego near Padua since 1930.
Dimensions 15 x 10.5 cm, thickness 1 cm, weight 90 g. Solid canaletto walnut. Wash by hand.
