Does your lasagne have a pasta sheet "floor"?

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Just that!

Saw a tip online saying "spread a thin layer of tomato sauce onto the bottom of the dish so the pasta doesn't stick".... 🫨

In 30 years of making lasagne I've never put a floor in & curious as to whether I've been missing out all this time 😅
(To the point I've just made the sauce and may experiment, but wondered if I've been committing a misdemeanour this whole time. Sorry Italians if I have!)

Nope I start with the mince at the bottom.

no, mince on bottom

No, but maybe I will start doing this as sometimes there isn't enough pasta in my lasagne (I need a deeper dish!)

Yes, I do - couple of spoonfuls of the ragu spread thin on the bottom to stop the pasta sticking first.

Mince first

No that’s totally 100% wrong. I hope you told the big clown how wrong they were.

Whaaaat! I am indeed shooketh.
It never occurred to me to do this, but more pasta never hurt anybody, right? 😋

Olive oil so it doesn't stick, then the pasta floor (Tesco fresh egg lasagne sheets) and then build from there.

No I find lasagne heavy enough with out an extra layer of pasta

I do a triple decker so already have 3 layers of pasta and thinking 4 might be overkill.. however I'm willing to experiment and take one for the team 😁

No. It's mince first surely? Pasta first seems so wrong.

Do you use dry pasta sheets, asking for a friend, or fresh pasta per pp?

I always do.

I grease the dish with butter, but yes I put in lasagne sheets first. That's what my Silver Spoon Italian cookbook en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_cucchiaio_d'argento tells me to do.

It is one of my favourite dishes. And you can never have too much pasta!

Nope, mince mix first, pasta, cheese sauce, and repeat in thin layers until you hit the top of the dish.

What I have found is that having many thin layers works better than just 1/2 layers with thick layers of meat mix sliding around. And also having the meat mix with the least amount of liquid possible - still moist but not sloppy IYKWIM.

A thin layer of bechamel, then pasta.

At the end, on top of the last pasta sheet: bechamel, grated emmenthal.

It is one of the very few dishes I master 😁

Nooo, mince first - always!

Think I'm being thick here. The advice is to put a layer of mince (I. E the tomato sauce) first. Isn't that what everyone does? Who's putting pasta first???

Well clearly not.

And, really, does it matter?

No, but I don't like too much pasta in my lasagne.
I do now want to make lasagne for dinner, however, so thanks for that!

I used to do mince first, then I saw the tip of sauce under the first layer, and I've been doing pasta first ever since. I have to admit it does scoop out easier with a pasta layer floor.

It goes ragu, white sauce, parmesan, pasta sheet, ragu, white sauce, parmesan, pasta sheet until the top sheet of pasta then last of the white sauce, plenty of parm and some mozzarella.

Pasta for me so I use the whole pack (fresh). Firm not sloppy mince/ ragu. My lasagne is the dish that's the family favourite. It's already on the menu for tomorrow night.

sauce first

always

every recipe I've ever seen saya this

@LaCouleurDeMonCiel You are 100% correct! 😊 I have no idea what the rest of these animals are making 😳😂