Talk:Spätzle

message: The caption that reads "dried convenience food, not the real thing" seems a bit off? 24.164.77.105 00:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Caption

message: How much is two hints of salt? Is that half a clue?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.173.177.55 (talk) 14:27, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Measurements

message: Spätzle are indeed dumplings, as dumplings are merely “small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough”.  The Maggi product is even marketed as such.  Additionally, a Google search finds hundreds of references to Spätzle as dumplings. Elcobbola 05:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Spätzle are in Baden-Württemberg usually seen as a thing of their own, they are neither dumpling nor noodle/pasta 78.42.252.102 (talk) 20:25, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Dumplings

message: I'd avoid calling them noodles, as the word noodle tends to refer to the long, thin pasta in East Asian cuisine. I've changed the text.
"Spätzle ... (also Spätzli or Knöpfle) are a type of egg pasta or dumpling, typically found in cuisine from southern Germany and regions of neighboring countries" Huseyx2 (talk) 10:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree; that's a good distinction to make.  I’ve tweaked the wording in the preparation section to match. Ɛƚƈơƅƅơƚɑ talk 14:49, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed "pasta" back to "noodle".  Pasta refers to noodles formed in the high Italian style;  Chinese and Japanese noodles certainly are noodles and not pasta.  There's a graduation between noodle and dumpling, though;  that's harder to work out.  Some spaetzle are long, like thick spaghetti or certain oriental noodles.  (This article needs a more global POV, by the way.  Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary, so this article should include noodles that evidently are spaetzle even if not called spaetzle.) --Una Smith (talk) 05:25, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

text: well Spätzle are NOT Nudeln, in Southern Germany Spätzle are usually not considered to be Nudeln ("noodle/pasta") they are Spätzle (they ain't dumpling either) 78.42.252.102 (talk) 20:22, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: noodles / pasta

message: The italian rough translation to spazzato is actually a past tense verb. It should be changed to "spazzare" which literally 
means "to break/split".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattycoze (talk • contribs) 06:47, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italian translation 

message: Must be some goofy person with a Northern German background.  If you want the real deal - never milk, only water! Kd4ttc (talk) 05:15, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Milk? 

message: I'd challenge the statement that "spätzli" is a north german term or even used there. I've lived in northern Germany and I have never heard it. I'd be surprised if there even was a word which is specific to the north since it isn't a common dish there. IMHO it'd simply be called "Spätzle" like almost anywhere else. The "-li" sounds more like it is an allemannic/swiss variant. --Eistreter (talk) 09:36, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spätzli 

message: To the best of my knoledge the dough is prepared by mixing the flour, eggs and salt first, then add handwarm water to reach the desired thickness, not the other way round as in the article.
As for scraping of the dough into the boiling water no special device is needed(for spätzle, for knöpfle you need one). You can scrape them from a (thin and not to wide) cutting board using a dough scraper or even a knive(if the blade is not curved). This is the traditional method but requires some practice though.
Fjbeyer (talk) 20:56, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preparation order of dough and scraping of the dough 

message: When I look at the picture and read the description, I instantly think of the Hungarian nokedli. They look exactly the same and are (probably) made of the same ingredients, so what's the difference? And why isn't there an article on nokedli? Nederbörd (talk) 19:08, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knöpfle = Nokedli? 

message: Huge article about it in German wikipedia  which, given the number of German speakers posting notes here, could be culled for material to translate and add. Doubt I did the link right, but you get the idea. Enjoy. Profhum (talk) 04:29, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: * I've read it and thought about translating it in the past, but I have higher-priority projects and couldn't get to it until next year. I agree, it has great material.--ColonelHenry (talk) 05:14, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huge article on it in German Wikipedia 

message: There is a separate article called Swabian Spätzle but as it isn't really a separate food, just a regional way of preparing it, I would suggest a merge --Mezaco (talk) 22:05, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Swabian Spätzle]]?

message: Nice one. Kind of cleaned up. Wrong, though.
Spaetzle was originally Spitzle, you still find Bubespitz in some regions. It's a slang word for penis, espc. a small boy's penis.
So your whole 'sparrow' spiel is very funny. And rather typical for the way current society deals with anything sexual.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.47.91 (talk • contribs) 
:You're right in principle but not in this case: Bubenspitzle.--TMCk (talk) 21:32, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: This should not be done as this recipe may have changed when it was brought to the New World. Also, Knoepfle or Spätzle soup is certainly very uncommon in Germany. Therefore, merging these articles would cause a loss of information  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sokafemi (talk • contribs) 00:27, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Is there a reason Knoephla should not be merged into Spätzle? --Melsj (talk) 19:33, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Equivalence isn't clear; is there a reference demonstrating equivalence? Oppose, if no such evidence. Klbrain (talk) 21:26, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

text: Closing; no merge. Klbrain (talk) 13:33, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 29 April 2020 

message: I'm ok with changing "pasta" to "noodle" but we would need a new source for the definition. GA-RT-22 (talk) 20:41, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Made the change with added citations. Thanks Quark1005 (talk) 21:40, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pasta or noodle