Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water.
How Made Factory made in the form of a small, curved tube, imitating the Austrian sweet called Kipfel; may be smooth or ridged. Chifferi are boiled in plenty of salted water or in broth.
Also Known As If small, chiocciole, lumachine, lumachette, lumachelle (the last three, all snails), chifferini, cirillini, genovesini, gobbini (humps), gomitini (elbows), gozzini, pipette, and stortini. If large, chifferoni, gobboni, gomiti, mezzi gomiti, gozzettoni, and stortoni.