/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12743549

Autism 101

>>12743549
>dear /ck/ I don't like something

>>12743549
Never go out for pasta. How cucked could one man be?

>box of cheap spaghetti noodles ($1.50)
>can of HUNTZ pasta sauce ($1)
>boil noodles while watching tv
>forget about it
>remember
>strain noodles
>open up can of pasta sauce
>dump it on the noodles
>eat it
>clean the dishes
>forget about it until you get hungry again and make another one

Spaghetti is spaghetti. "Good" spaghetti is made with homemade noodles, sauce made from scratch, 2 to 3 different kinds of cheeses, meatballs, and some garlic bread on the side. Who the fuck has time for that? All that work just for spaghetti? Literally ANYTHING else is going to be the same. It doesn't matter if you use prego, or HUNTZ, or campbells, or whatever. It doesn't matter if you use golden grain, or store brand pasta. Spaghetti is just noodles and sauce, and it's meant to be cheap, easy to make, povvo food for people too lazy to cook.

Spaghetti, by nature, is a non-spectacular dish. It's one of the basic defaults for quick, cheap meals.

Totally agree with you OP, noodles and tomato sauce aren't very good. It's the very lowest of the low carb/condiment combinations (bread & butter, rice & soy sauce, oats & honey, corn & butter, etc). Spaghetti and sauce MUST have meat to become actually palatable.

>>12743871
based aglio e olio poster

>>12743987
Totally agreed. Plus, pasta dishes at restaurants have way too much sauce and cheese. So much so that I often feel sick afterward.

t. loves chicken fingers and mac & cheese

>>12744085
Honestly, there is nothing more complex about pasta and tomato sauce than pasta and cheese sauce

Isn't spaghetti also usually on kids menues?

>>12743987
>just uses hunts pasta sauce
Anon you are not some animal! Have some decency and at least add some jimmy dean ground sausage and add italian seasoning to your sauce. Jesus fuck at least some garlic or diced onion for fucks sake. It's not that hard

>>12743549
Spaghetti is good if you make it the right way. I.e. not the way almost everybody makes it i.e. with waaaaay too much pasta sauce. It takes like you're eating tomato soup with noodles most of the time. This is wrong wrong wrong. You need a SMATTERING of sauce, and the sauce should be as fresh as possible with minimal additives like salt sugar or vinegar. It also needs copious olive oil. It should almost be more oil than sauce. And of course, the spaghetti itself must be just the right firmness.

>>12744655
They slather it with sauce because tomato sauce simmered with basil and garlic is fucking boring and that's what any youtube channel will tell you is enough for a perfect red sauce.

>>12744673
>no, I prefer my sauce full of sugar, corn syrup, pineapple, ground up animal anus and some kraft singles ontop, everything else is flavorless garbage

>>12744655
Yeah I've had that, it's not very good

>>12744820
It's great, I don't know what you're talking about.

>>12744825
Just tastes of shitty pasta and tomatoes and olive oil

>>12744858
Pasta is only shitty if you don't cook it right. Al denty sketi is magic. It's the star of the show. The other two ingredients are understated in order to allow it to shine.