/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16900376]

Is there seriously any sort of benefit to boiling half of the noodles for a longer time than the rest of it or is the only reason to not break them because you take pleasure in eating longer things?

[Anonymous No.16900382]

>>16900376
Get a proper sized pot you fucking tramp

[Anonymous No.16900481]

Anyone who gets mad at you for breaking noodles is a retard. Just break them.

[Anonymous No.16900490]

>>16900376
>for a longer time
The few seconds it takes for them to soften and go under the water is insignificant.

[Anonymous No.16900491]

>>16900376
The only things that will get broken are your femurs

[Anonymous No.16900493]

>>16900376
I only eat the longest things possible

[Anonymous No.16900504]

>>16900481
Or italian but same stuff

[Anonymous No.16900511]

>The only things that will get broken are your femurs

[Anonymous No.16902195]

>>16900376
you could be making your own pasta that's not a bunch of solid yellow sticks you bought at the store, thus you wouldn't be having this problem

you could be using a bigger pot and properly filled with water, thus not having this problem

you could wait a few seconds after putting the pasta in so the bottom goes soft and you then submerge the entirety of the pasta, thus not having this problem

but you're choosing to break the pasta, like a fucking dumb animal

[Anonymous No.16902431]

>>16902195
All these ways to avoid the problem, not a single argument about why the other solution is actually bad.

[Anonymous No.16902445]

>>16900376
>Half the noodles for a longer time
Are you literally 25 IQ?

[Anonymous No.16902470]

it takes 8 minutes to cook most spaghetti, it takes 30 seconds to be able to submerge to pasta completely after its soft enough to bend. the difference its negligible.
the only reason to break pasta is if you like shorter pasta, which works really well for a lot of dishes, but dont pretend its too hard or inconvenient to not break the pasta or that you are limited by the size of your pot

[Anonymous No.16902489]

>>16902431
because having it long shows at least some cooking skill and respect for the craftsmanship of the pasta, and the requirement for it in this case is actually so low that not meeting it is pathetic

do you want your eggs to have the yolk break in the pan or as you're taking them out? fuck no

do you want to cut up your steak into little pieces while still in the pan because you're having trouble cooking it evenly to the correct amount? fuck no. do you even want to keep slicing through it mid-cook to check how it is on the inside multiple times? fuck no

the spaghetti are made long and thin and that's how they are to be served on the fucking plate. there's tons of other pasta shapes and molds out there and they are not to be mutilated either. you need to understand and accept this. if your IQ is so subzero that you can't even cook pasta without breaking it, then idk what else to tell you. maybe go and break them into 1/8ths so you can boil them in a little cup like a fucking mongoloid

[Anonymous No.16902548]

>>16902489
>because having it long shows at least some cooking skill and respect for the craftsmanship of the pasta
I cook food to eat it, not because I'm trying to respect "the craftsmanship of the pasta" fucking lmao what a joke

[Anonymous No.16902798]

>>16900376
>he doesn't just soften the one half of the bunch until the whole thing can fit in the pot

[Anonymous No.16902830]

>>16902548
then do what you please. some people do give a shit, though.

[Anonymous No.16902873]

>>16902798
wtf are you saying? How do you do that without boiling that half longer than the other half?

[Anonymous No.16902915]

>>16902873
because it takes at most 10 seconds for it to be soft enough to bend inside the pot.

[Anonymous No.16903047]

>>16902915
So half is overcooked. Good job making bad pasta.

[Anonymous No.16903079]

>>16903047
>He times his pasta to the second

[Anonymous No.16903085]

>>16902470
>>16900490
Boiling a larger pot does take a significantly longer time

[Anonymous No.16903095]

I don't break it cause my mum didn't break it growing up
Simple as

[Anonymous No.16903192]

>>16900376
I do not understand why this kind of obvious dumbshit troll threads aren't just deleted on sight.

[Anonymous No.16903197]

>>16900376
when bend like this, spaghetti will always break in 3 pieces, with a tiny center piece flying off god knows where. That alone is reason not to do it.

[Anonymous No.16903204]

>>16903085
and.....the noodles are doing what when your boiling the pot?

[Anonymous No.16903208]

>>16900376
>noodles

[Anonymous No.16903212]

>>16903197
When you do the wrist twist, there aint' no missin' bit. These days, folk prefer to do the fendy bendy. Can't reason wit' 'em.

[Anonymous No.16903216]

It's just pretty inconvenient to eat spaghetti broken in half, you can't twirl them anymore, and picking them up with a fork or spoon or chopstick is also not exactly great. Might as well go for another pasta shape at this point.

[Anonymous No.16903412]

>>16903047
it's for my family so who cares

[Anonymous No.16903727]

>>16903085
>fill electic kettle with warm/hot tap water
>bring to boil within two minutes
>fill pot with hot water, add salt
>cover with lid
>pot boils within a minute
>take lid off, throw in sketti, move around with spatula until they are soft (also takes about a minute)

et viola, no need to break pasta, no need to add oil, no need for OP to suck a dozen dudes off at a gloryhole at a highway rest stop

[Anonymous No.16904244]

Cook it in a frying pan. you don’t upset the autists for daring to “””disrespect the pasta”””, and you don’t have to do the retarded song and dance of bending the pasta to get it to fit in.

[Anonymous No.16904291]

>>16900376
Full length spaghetti is stupid anyway you have to cut it up

[Anonymous No.16904299]

>>16900376
it softens in like forty seconds and you can just push them into the pot easily at that point
it's really not a big deal

[Anonymous No.16904301]

>>16902830
Those people are what I call "retards'.

[Anonymous No.16904322]

>>16903085
Because of the mass of the pot? It's hard to quantify I suppose, but the big factor is the amount of water. And that doesn't change, should be about 1L per 100g of pasta.

[Anonymous No.16904328]

>>16900376
The reason spaghetti is made at the length it is, is because the intended way to eat them is to wrap them around a fork. Whoever doesn't like that way are free to do whatever they like.
>>16900504
>>16900511
The ones that gets offended are usually Americans LARPing as Italians, because they have this distorted perception that Italians care about what they stuff into their body. Also Americans get offended on behalf of others all the time.

Italians are passionate about cuisine, something that might be hard to understand for Anglos. Americans on the other hand will literally seethe and invent lies if their cooking ways are questioned. They think they are best in the world in everything, so it creates cognitive dissonance to be exposed to things that show that it's not really true. And the only way they can react is like little children. It's pathetic, but it is what it is. America is like a little brother that outgrew his older brother, but is mentally still a child.

[Anonymous No.16905152]

>>16902489
>because having it long shows at least some cooking skill and respect for the craftsmanship of the pasta
Oh yeah? So what about the craftsmanshil of ziti? Fucking hypocrite.

[Anonymous No.16905507]

>>16900376
Breaking noodles changes nothing about the cooking process. Breaking noodles changes nothing about the taste. Breaking noodles just makes them easier to eat. I don't want to spend an hour trying to wrap noodles around a fork by spinning it on a fucking spoon. I just want to eat the fucking noodles.

[Anonymous No.16905511]

>>16902489
>Your pasta is so long how did you do it I MUST have your recipe!

>WTF is this short pasta? What were you THINKING inviting me over for dinner and serving this shit!

[Anonymous No.16905550]

>>16905507
>I don't want to spend an hour trying to wrap noodles around a fork by spinning it on a fucking spoon. I just want to eat the fucking noodles.
Do you lack motor skills or are you so desperate to stuff your mouth with food that you don't even take time to chew it?

[Anonymous No.16905584]

>>16900376
You lose pasta if you break in half. The shards fly behind the stove!

[Anonymous No.16907433]

>>16902489
Look how many retards you shamed for being retarded. Good job.

[Anonymous No.16907443]

>>16904328
>because the intended way to eat them is to wrap them around a fork
you can still wrap half length spaghetti, and its makes it easier to mix in the other ingredient with it so you get some variety in each bite rather than just a a forkful of pasta

[Anonymous No.16907629]

>>16900376
Breaking the spaghetti ruins the texture, turns it into soup.

[Anonymous No.16907655]

>>16907629
How?

[Anonymous No.16907667]

>>16907655
science, you fucking retard

[Anonymous No.16907677]

>>16907667
That doesn't affect me because I don't believe in science.

[Anonymous No.16907782]

>>16900376
It literally only takes a couple of seconds to soften the first end in enough to get the rest in.
The overall texture difference is entirely negligible.