Abstract: A machine for automatically packaging pasta strips of wide flat type, in particular pasta known as lasagne, having at least two matching conveyors provided with a plurality of containing elements, which carry stacks of pasta strips from a horizontal conveying position to a halted discharging position rotated through 90.degree., adjacent transfer devices being provided to insert the reconstituted stacks into packaging containers carried into a halted position in succession by a further transporting device, the conveyors and transporting device being motorized in mutual stepwise synchronism.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of instant-cooking alimentary paste, mainly of the type based on cereal flours or other flours, characterized in that it comprises the following steps:(a) the carrying out of a vaporization treatment, using steam at a temperature of less than 100.degree. C., at atmospheric pressure, on a paste coming from the extrusion stage and having a moisture content of between 25% and 35%;(b) the humidification of the paste treated as stated until its moisture content is approximately from 40% to 55%;(c) allowing the paste humidified in this way to stand;(d) the carrying out of a vaporization treatment of the paste allowed to stand as under (c) above with steam at a temperature of less than 100.degree. C., at atmospheric pressure.