/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5417747
I do.
>vive la revolution

>>5417747
I break them into 3 or 4.

>>5417747
>not breaking your pasta to make it cook faster
>2014
shiggery diggery doo

>>5417747

You used to be able to by spaghetti in lengths of something between 2 and 3 feet. Lots of people broke it in two then.

My guess is that people are too impatient and want to throw it into the pot of water and forget about it until it is done. It's also possible that they are using far too small a pot of water.

>>5417747
I do too. Cooks faster and is easier to eat; what's your issue with it?

>>5417747
why is you pasta crunchy?

I do it because I end up cutting up my spaghetti so it's easier to eat anyway. It's easier to snap it before it's cooked than to stab around in it to try and cut it up evenly.

I snap it half so it'll fit in the pot better.

I know a few people who refuse to break it before putting it in the pot, they like to cut it on the plate or slurp super long strands. That's weird to me.

i use scissors ,which is more human-like and not ape-like

When I was out of other noodles, I'd break up speaghetti into really small pieces and turn that into mac and cheese.

We have to be cruel to survive.

>>5417812
How the hell does that work? I can imagine it flying everywhere.

>>5417804

Even when the long spaghetti was available, you could buy the half length packages as well so you wouldn't need to snap it in half.

>>5417767
>>5417784

Breaking it in half doesn't change cooking time you dipshits, it just makes it harder to eat.

>>5417747
I did that the other day to mix it with tuna and vegetables, I broke it in 3 pieces because if it's too long it does not catch the chunky sauce.
I only had spaghetti and not my preferred quill shapes or small elbows.
Sometimes we must do disagreeable things out of necessity.

>>5417813
why cant you just have spaghetti and cheese? are you autistic?

>>5417889
It's not the SAME, man

>>5417887
Wtf is quill shapes? Are you really 12?

>>5417747
I do when I'm preparing it for a small lunch. I have a small lunch container, like 2 inches by 4, and it would be hard to fit full noodles in.

>>5417902
It's just penne, calm down

>>5417920
sorry but yeah, and apparently the elbow shape is called macaroni

>>5417747
I never liked it how people break it in half, and then when they see me cooking pasta they complain how I put it in whole, and I always try to explain to them that when it warms up they get softer and bend and all the pasta settles down into the water naturally, but they try to tell me that I'm wrong and try to convince me to break it in half, I always resist and tell them I don't agree with them and they get angry, but I tell them that I will cook it the way that it makes me happy and then they see it settle into the water, but they try to make up another reason why I was wrong, even though I just proved them completely wrong, so I tell them to leave me alone because I like my pasta the way that I like my freedoms. free.

>>5418155
so... the pasta just....sinks in the pot?

on its own?

really?

>>5418320
yea, wait a sec Paint.jpg coming.

>>5418155
God bless America

Also small pieces of spaghetti are difficult to twirl on a fork

>>5418330
image

>don't break spaghetti
>suddenly this happens

checkmate OP

>>5418338
you probably set your icecream on fire, go to cooking school.

>>5418337
>"and the pasta just goes ahhh nice"
>mfw

Because I don't like the noodles in my soup to whiplash me across the face with boiling hot liquid when I slurp them up. So I break them in half as a safety precaution.

>>5418364
>soup

>>5418358
I'll never break pasta again. Thanks Anon!

Over the pot I assume (retard).

>>5418364

When eating spaghetti right out of the boiling water, how do you get your sauce to stick? Or do you just eat it without sauce?

>>5418375
By the time you've drained it and served it, it'll usually have steamed off enough that the sauce should stick to it somewhat.

Although I was talking about soup, not sauce, but whatever.

if you don't break it, half the noodle will be more cooked than the other half. breaking it allows for distributed cooking. idiots

>>5418390
this is exactly one of the things that these morons try to convince me of in
>>5418155

your wrong, it comes out excellent for me every time.

>>5418320

Actually, it will. On this short spaghetti we have today, my pot I use for cooking pasta is large enough for it to be completely immersed in water when I put it in. On the longer spaghetti, when I could find it in the stores, I would help it along by pushing it to get it immersed faster.

There was never any need at all to break it in half. For that matter, if someone wanted it shorter so that they could immerse it into any decent sized pot (I think that most people use too small a pot) for making pasta, all they had to do is buy a shorter version in the store.

>>5417882

It does because I can fit it all in the pot easier, and also increased surface area.

>>5418444
>hue hue

>>5418456
He meant breaking it in half lengthwise, you dolt.

>>5418461
Why not do both? Then you get the god tier of semolina products, couscous. Don't need none of that pasta shit, blegh.

While holding the whole batch of spaghetti I twist so when I let go and the spaghetti relaxes in the pot it spreads around the rim of the bowl keeping it nice and even. And your not supposed t cook till it's mush, do you people not know "al dente" = to the tooth

>>5418464
Why do people always abuse couscous?
It seems as if they treat it like rice's retarded brother, never doing anything with it.

>>5418472
I have no idea, I always toss extra stuff into it. Leftover couscous is great for a sort of pasta salad thing, with tomatoes and green onions.

>>5418464
>put spaghetti in food processor
>process
>maximum surface area
>maximum taste clinging potential

>>5418358
why is there a penis in the pasta?

>>5418477
>not just eating flour straight from the bag

>>5418483
>Not mixing your sauce into your flour to taste the flavour coating maximum surface area.

Pleb

>>5418496
>not just eating the grain and tomatoes straight from the plant

Uncivilized swine. I bet you use fire to keep yourself warm too.

>>5417747
Over here breaking them in half isn't well looked upon. Still, it's acceptable if you have to fit them in a small pot or want to put 'em in a soup.
Source: greasy Italianon.

>>5418479
thats just a silly representation of what one of the pasta is thinking. its not a ding dong.

if you have too long a pasta and want it to fit fast presoak it in cold water
it also helps it cook faster or in sauce
if you steam it it goes chewy and interesting
you can keep it in the fridge so it makes for a fast alternative to cup noodles

I can't tell if people are serious or not, like >>5418390

Are you guys serious? I eat my pasta with a fork and a spoon, why would i cut or break them?

>Year of the horse
>Using dried pasta

Fucking plebs

>>5419148
fresh pasta is gash

also why the fuck to americans call pasta noodles

>>5419181
>mfw when a European male wore a thong, called his remote a smibbly bibbly, ate crisps and drank fizzy drink, collected the goop from his cheesedick and put it in a jar, paid high taxes, lost his Zed tile in scrabble, drank tea in delicate flower painted cups, wanked his chap's jibbly with slippy dip, had bad teeth, dove in the grass, digested digestive biscuits, went barmy, had a smoke and a pancake, had a closet full of blue track pants, snogged with his mate, feared the wrath of a queen, called his relative an upsy stairsy, surrendered in war, had scruffy hair, was prudish, felt dickey, said cheerio, ello, and god save the queen, smoked a fag, called his keyboard a hoighty toighty tippy typer, walked his cat on a leash, spent a fortnight in a hostel, used icing sugar, jimmied in the alley, told some one to belt up, sniffed stranger's knickers, ate a lolly, called the internet the inty winty, used a pillar box, was arse over tits drunk, had Tiger nuts, was a soap dodger, spun a yo-yo anti-clockwise, went to the C of E, drank scrumpy, had a beret, was gobsmacked, put on a welly, had some candy floss, was randy, appreciated another male's waistcoat and and bum bag, took a shufti, watched the telly, took a kip, was off his trolley, took a poopy-doo on the tea cup, had a sticking plaster on his knee, called a fan a twirly gust, was rude, waited in a queue, drove in a roundabout, said tootle pip to his mate, wore a bearskin and stood real still, asked me to blow him, shot the chin wag, was arse over elbow over a dishy bloke, wore lederhosen, was a poof, learnt maths, cocked up, identified the primary colours, told someone to bugger off, and drove on the wrong side of the road near me

>>5419181
Different vernacular.We are on different continents. Word meaning are gonna drift.

>>5419185
then what do you call noodles

>>5419181
honestly you wont hear anyone calling great pasta noodles
its mostly reserved for china food and childrens meals

>>5419189
noodles now stop being such an autist

>>5419194
sow how do you know which the person is talking about that is dumb

>>5419198
It's not like no one calls pasta "pasta" in the US. You're making retarded generalizations. I hope you're just trolling and you're not actually this mentally inept.

It is quite common to break spaghetti into 3-4cm cunks and cook them directly into soups in Italy (at least the part where I grew up). It's the only way if you plan on eating it with a spoon.

Also, as an Italian and a human being, i think people eating pasta with fork AND spoon should be immersed into boiling salted water for a prolonged period of time and covered with thick homemade tomato sauce. You are the scourge of the earth, the spawn of Satan himself

>>5419201
but i thought you called pasta noodles

Breaking spaghetti in half is normal in Italy, why don't you do it?

>>5419198
see
>>5419191
barilla spaghetti no. 5 in butter served to a child = noodles
vodka alfredo over cappelini = pasta
or more often than not, cappelini/angel hair

>>5419206
Noodles refer to spaghetti and asian noodles. Zitti elbow macaroni etc all get called by what they are.

Also this post and >>5419185. Are my only ones. I'm not that easily upset anon also responding.

>>5419213
stop responding to trolls

>>5419210
Who in the blessed world of God still eats spaghetti with butter? It always seemed an indigestive meal.
Sorry, but spaghetti all'arrabbiata are way better than a pasta like that.

Pasta is the italian name for noodles.
Say Italian noodles or chingchong pasta, if you wish: it will only bother the autistics.

>>5419218
Try capelli d'angelo with roasted breadcrumbs. There's no turning back.

>>5419218

Did you miss the "served to a child" comment in his post? That should make it pretty clear that it's not food for normal people.

>>5419218
like i said, children
think high chairs buckled in, throwing noodles all over the walls

>>5419222
>noodles

>>5419221
>>5419222
The following thing may surprise you, but I often see Italian people who eat pasta with butter, even in the adulthood.

>>5419225
if a child is throwing fistfulls of zitoni at me im going to call them noodles

>>5419227
that sdumb

>>5418461
How the fuck do you break spaghetti in half lengthwise?

>>5419250
its not
its like calling a maglev a choo choo train

>>5419262
very carefully

>>5419262
lol at one place i worked we used to tell greenhorns to cut rice in half to make sushi rice

>>5417747
People who only have one very small pot.

>>5417813
>noodles
>spaghetti
>mac and cheese

I, what? Spaghetti and macaroni are types of pasta, not noodles.

>>5419292
you put the pasta in as far as it will go and gradually push it down as the pasta softens

>>5417747
I do it when I'm cooking spaghetti in the microwave.

>>5419320
Or you could just break it in half.

>>5417895
ok, autism confirmed

>>5417747
I've been forced to do this upon moving into a new place, I only brought some of my pots and pans the first night I was cooking. I had a saucepan to cook my pasta...so I had to break it for the first time in my life. It was the same length as canned spaghetti and it made me slightly depressed.
Reminds me of eating MRE spaghetti.
"I'm just eating this so I won't starve to death." Is what always went through my head.

>>5419474
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hF41qPkJxs

>>5417747
I do this. Because for some reason, the pot for pasta doesn't work anymore on this electric stove they bought, so I have to use another smaller one. Still, I can opt not to break it but most of the time I feel lazy and break it anyway. I only do this when it's just me or my family. I won't do it if I serve it to visitors.

>>5418155
While I break my spag when I feel lazy, forcing it to someone is just really shitty.

>>5418338
How do you even burn spaghetti

>>5420849
Gas too high, pasta over the edge of the pot.

>>5420843
>they

Who's 'they'?

Your parents?

>>5420849

>>5418155
Your noodles will turn out overcooked on one end and al dente on the other.

>>5419130

Dat plate.

for chicken nooble soup, nigga!

>>5420878
>Your noodles will turn out overcooked on one end and al dente on the other.
I don't think 10-15 seconds to stir in pasta is going to matter that much over a 6-8 min cooking time.

There's probably more unevenness created because of the time it takes to get even cooling to prevent overcooking.

>>5418336
>twirling spaghetti past the age of 12

>>5421878
>slurping it like a fucking savage

>>5421884
>that disgusting noise
>stripping the sauce off each noodle
>the noodle shakes and whips the sauce off the end, splattering everything.

God I hate pasta slurpers

>>5421884
>>5421911

If the noodles are short enough there's no need for slurping you plebs.

>>5419297
>two socially acceptable, interchangeable terms describing one thing

How autistic are you?

>>5417804
>cut spaghetti on the plate

are you shitting me?

>>5417932
Macaroni is the type of dough used to make the elbow pasta. You can have Macaroni in straight noodles as well

>>5422916
macaroni is the cut not the type of dough. its a small straight short tube. elbow mac is this but bent

>>5422688
No he's correct. Those are names as the dough used not the style of noodle.
>>5422922
See part one of this post

>UK

Noodles refer to Asian NOODLES

Pasta refers to.....Pasta

It's brilliant

>>5417882
It does not significantly change surface area. 99% of the surface area of pasta is along the length, you're only adding another two ends.

>>5419219
I looked it up and technically noodles are cut from rolled flat dough. Pasta is extruded.

>>5424853
noodles can be extruded

>>5417747
>What sort of sick fuck does this to their pasta?

ABSOLUTE FUGGEN PLENS

>>5424874
>one pot pasta
Please enlighten me on this

>>5420877
oh, you mean when you're a retard. I get it now

>americlaps in charge of cooking general

>>5425056
>implying that can't happen in Europoor to.

I do.

>>5424874
this looks really good, ive never seen anyone cook pasta with ingredients in the water like that. can you tell me more about it

>>5424874
oh mah god this looks delicous. TELL ME MOAR

I do. Who the fuck wants to eat spaghetti with a spoon?

>>5425049
>>5425373
>>5425381

ITS A QUICK HACK FOR A LIGHT SUGO DI POMODORO FRESCO

USUALLY SAUCE SIMMERS FOR HOURS, THIS IS A DIFFERENT ANIMAL

COOKING IT TOGETHER WITH THE PASTA GIVES IT A BIT OF AN INFUSED RIPASSATA IN PADELLA TASTE

TRY IT, AND USE FRESH BASIL OR DIE

>>5425392
Bravo anon. You are a God among men