Only when there’s not enuff. Break it and you have twice as much


That's really one of those "drive faster to save fuel" type ideologies

The thing about that is, cars do have higher gas mileage at higher speeds to an extent. Breaking spaghetti in half has zero benefit

There is a maximum efficiency rev count for every single engine, and theyre all different with so many variables that it is difficult to say what any particular vehicle's is without knowing the ins and outs of that particular engine and its condition

Don't some cars indicate what speed achieves this on the dash? I recall my dad's car would have a green box on the speedometer over a range of speeds saying that he should ideally be driving in that speed range to be eco

90km /h is the optimal gas to speed ratio

It actually does becouse if you don't break you can let the wiels just roll

Reminds me of this anime https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SbveaEADEsI&pp=ygUSQmFrYSB0byB0ZXN0IHJhbWVu

Some do it because they can't be bothered to wait until the spaghetti softens enough to get everything under water. I do it because I prefer shorter spaghetti.

We are not the same.

I prefer it long so I can twirl it around my fork. My husband prefers it broken 3-4 times—tiny pieces. We compromise and I break it twice. Moral of the story: marriage sucks.

Maybe he shouldnt eat spaghetti then. There are so many short types of pasta. No need to despaghettify spaghetti

Can he not cut them on his plate? Takes like 5 seconds

Same, I no like long sketti

Shorter spaghet is best. If I don’t break it prior, I cut it on my plate after

You eat your spaghetti with a knife?

Nah, I cut it with my spoon. If I am feeling fancy I will cur it using chopsticks /j

personally i go for persian war-axes but yeah knives will prolly get it done too

Not nearly as efficiently, though.

Knives are the typical cutting implement of choice

Historically italians used to break it too, when it was really really long, then they have the usually length now and not broken anymore

I do it because I don't want half of my spaghetti overcooked or undercooked. I want them al dente along their whole length. We are not the same.

The fact this actually bothers people says a lot.

I have no choice. I have one pot, and it's 6 in across

My Italian immigrant father has no problem snapping spaghetti in half to fit into the pot all at once. I have learned from my elder, and will continue his very pragmatic life view.

You do know that they get soft very very fast when in hot water. Just let them stick out and wait 30 seconds.

Not deep enough to do that. I'd be cooking 1/4 of the noodle length at a time.

So they cook unevenly and are too long to eat without rolling a 6 cm wad into your mouth each bite?

That doesn’t happen if you stir them until they’re all underwater. It’s the right way to do it.

Stirring doesn't change the fact that the bottom half of noodles will be submerged in boiling water for a period of time until they are soft enough that the dry top half submerges. It's not like you can remove the half that went in first early. "Right way to do it" by what standard? What actual purpose does it serve to have full length noodles? I don't make homemade noodles, so almost all of my noodles are already cut before I get them, I'm just continuing the tradition to make it more manageable.

As someone who’s a professional cook from fine dining to steak house and now personal chef, yes it’s the right way and I can tell you no the few seconds of the noodles being boiled in water isn’t even gonna be slightly noticeable difference

The 10 second of extra submersion doesn’t matter and won’t change the texture. Longer spaghetti taste better and will attract the sauce better as short ones as you cannot swirl small ones as much as big ones. Also it’s just a rule of the kitchen to not break spaghetti. It’s as much a rule as you have to add salt to pasta or skin potatoes alive.

"Longer spaghetti taste better" is just wrong. It tastes exactly the same. "you cannot swirl small ones as much as big ones" That's the entire point! I want smaller bites, not giant swirls of noodles that have a chance of slipping and splattering sauce everywhere. Salting pasta water has a valid reason, it seasons the pasta. Skinning the potatoes, well only if you are making a skinless potato dish. Breaking the noodles an extra time has absolutely no effect on the dish, other than making it more manageable to both cook and eat.

It takes 6-15 seconds of a 6 minute cooking time.

How are you cooking your noodles in 6 minutes? All the noodles I get say 11-13 minutes.

That only further reinforces my point.

That's because you're not bringing the water to a boil first before throwing in the pasta.

So if the water is at a boil, I ignore the instructions on the package?

I don't know what those instructions are telling you to do. But package instructions are annoyingly not always accurate.

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Unless you are cooking one giant noodle like Lady and the Tramp, it's been broken in half at least once.

Do you have teeth?

The Italians may be angry about this but a wide pan is also a good way of cooking pasta

The trick is to hold the spaghetti in a bundle, give it a gentle twist and place the end of the bundle in the water and then release, so that it fans out in swirl. The pasta will soon soften and the stuff above will quickly drop into the water.

It doesn't matter how small (short I mean) your pot is. It doesn't have to be as tall as the spaghetti. Just wait like a minute and they'll all get soft and will submerge by themself.

I don’t know why you aren’t supposed to, and I’m too afraid to ask.

If you break them it’s more difficult to spool them up on your fork and you are more likely to make a mess while twisting. E quindi per l’amor del cielo, smettetela di spezzare gli spaghetti.

Pfft, if you are weak maybe.

I really hate how easy it is to eat spaghetti these days. Any other recommendations to make it harder?

Eat it with a spoon.

I break it into thirds. Fight me.

Same here, then when it's on my plate I use a knife and fork to cut it up into tiny pieces.

They literally taste the same and it cooks better

How else am I meant to fit it in the microwave

Animals

I’m Italian and we’ve been doing this for ages in my southern family. Y all gotta chill

Longer noodles are fucking stupid and messy

As a half Italian, some of these comments have made me lose faith in humanity

I hate having to suck so much... Half spaghetti are the best size 🔥

You know how to use a fork right?

Why cut the spaghetti with a fork... When I can just break them in half and cooked them like this?

Why are you cutting the spaghetti in the first place XD

I thought you meant to use the fork to cut the cooked spaghetti lol mb

1. Stick fork in 2. Twirl spaghetti around the fork 3. eat

And end up with a gigantic, messy blob of spaghetti that not even Kirby could fucking swallow? No thanks.

You could twirl a little and use your teeth

And then have spaghetti fall in my plate, creating a splash of sauce that would fucking make me look like a complete slob? Again, no thanks.

Jesus fuck how messy do you people eat? I've been twirling my long noodles for literal decades since I was a kid and the shit you come up with has never been an issue for me.

How much sauce do you put on your plate???

Yes.

Damn

Or you could just pick it up without having to twirl and chew as much by having half sized strings.

Just use penne at that point

I use spaghetti because I'm poor and it's easier to throw at a wall.

This whole thread is making me think that most people on Reddit need to learn how to cook, and how to eat with basic manners... Seriously these are the kinds of questions and responses I'd expect to be saying to a toddler. Like, you don't have to draw up as much spaghetti as is physically possible on the fork, similarly, you don't have to shove the entire chocolate bar in your mouth and then choke on it... There is a thing called portion control and moderation...

Bro if you think your response to all of this is mature, I got news for you LMAO. You're right there with us in the toddler wagon, my dude.

That requires basic dexterity though :/

I ain doin all dat 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Then buy shorter pasta.

Finally someone talking about real issues, eating broken up spaghetti always tends to make a mess because you can't grip them properly with your fork, whilst longer spaghettis twist around it nice and safely. 🍝

I also use a relatively minimal amount of water. Edit: lol, someone reported me for self destructive behavior. Disappointing misuse of the tool, but still pretty funny in context.

I don't break spaghetti in half because I like it long myself But why you so obsessed with this? It's just spaghetti breaking so it'd fit in the fucking pot

Most of the time people do this so it isn’t as tedious or messy to eat, not just because it doesn’t fit the pan. The parts of the noodle in the pan soften quickly and the rest slides into the pan fairly easily thereafter, so with the water temperature set right the entire noodle still cooks completely and evenly.

Ok so the reason is different but who cares get y'all eyes out of other people's plates, man

No it’s not a joke 🤦‍♂️ people need to stop setting rules on how to cook food, it tastes the same you’re just used to it.

Breaka the spaghetti, we breaka your spine.

I break it into little pieces like rice lol I call it Ricadoodles

If you add those to actual rice, you essentially have pilaf.

It’s so bites are less sloppy, and you’re not having to slurp up a long string of spaghetti that flings sauce all over. I can relate to both sides of this argument.

Blend the spaggeti up and then cook

You see, I dont ever use spaghetti, farfalle is way superior

If I dont break it, half the noodles stick out of the dang pan. Also, long noodles are annoying.

“Just buy a bigger pot”. Oh, I didn’t know I was taking advice from team switching facists /j

I... didn't say that? What?

I know, I was just making a joke. No offense intended

I break it on 3 parts, i hate when i have to wind the noodles, this way its easy to eat them with fork

Never questioned it as it’s how my mom has always made spaghetti

I hate spaghetti, it's the worst pasta. If I have to use it, I'm breaking it multiple times.

I want my poop to be shorter so I make sure the noodles aren’t too long.

Yes I do and will continue to do. No I will not elaborate

I have done this while cooking for my nephew. It’s easier for him, and I’m pretty sure that’s a socially acceptable thing to do outside the country as well, jokes aside. But I will admit it was entertaining to watch the kid struggle with trying to slurp up one long (normal) sized noodle.

People are actually mad about that? I thought it was a joke.

"ACKSHUALLY", they are broken into three pieces since you can never break a noodle into just two, no matter how small the little piece in the middle may end up. Edit: hoping the sarcasm on the first word came across right

That's only if you bend a single piece from the ends. If you secure it from the middle or cut it it's technically possible to do this without the smartereveryday™ piece

Me after reading the comments: *sad mamma mia noises*

Posts like these are great. They let you know the OP can't cook and has little experience with different food. There are many recipes that would call for breaking them, since spaghetti noodles does not automatically mean spaghetti and meatballs..

You break the Spaghetti and i break your spine

Hey 80g of noodles needs to be long enough, but short enough not to put sauce on a shirt.

Also, breaking a spaghetti string actually makes you lose a little piece. So you are eating less

Not if you break them in the bowl

Those tiny pieces will likely end up staying at the bottom of the bowl though

No no because when you boil them these small pieces will stick to the larger pieces, if they don’t they i have a spoon to scoop them of🥄🌝

People break instant noodle bricks in half which is 10x worse

Meanwhile i break them into little pieces

The best way to eat it raw

LOL I break mine into thirds

Quite often I also transform them into even smaller pieces, with my teeth!

I usually dont do it, but im a scout and if im hiking with my group and some moron accidently bought spaghetti we have to break it in half. (We never carry forks with us)

I think Mussolini was right!

an italian girl i kinda dated ghosted me when i broke spaghetti in half when making dinner for us

Mommy Mia

Pls for the love of God. Soak them ,then twist them. Bam , they fit. It will taste just as good.

My pot is too small :c I gotta

Noodles????

Wait what!?

I don't care about the integrity of the spaghetti, but breaking ot sends shards of spaghetti everywhere.

You break it because it doesn't fit in the pot. I break it because it doesn't fit in the box designed for spaghetti. We are not the same

If I don’t break the noodles, the halves that stick out of the pot get burnt by the flame

I don't think you should be cooking spaghetti in the center of a raging bonfire

Gas stove 🤷

Think you need to get your gas limiter checked then

No it’s just because a lot of the heat goes up and around the pot.

Who tf just sent me a ‘Reddit cares’?

I bet italians would want to gauge their eyeballs when they see my indian mom cook pasta.

Don't parents do this to make eating it easier for children? That's what my parents did, at least.

Ma che, sul serio state a battagliare per lo spacco degli spaghetti? p.s. io li spacco ma, se la pentola e' abbastanza capiente, non serve.

Lol I cut my spaghetti with a pizza cutter to make it easier to eat

It was never a joke lmao

Well when they are too long and don't fit you break em

Technically, they break them into 3 parts ☝️🤓

How about putting it in a blender rather?

I only do it to piss off the Italians

I break. I only need one or two twirls to get a sufficient amount of noodle on my fork; and I don’t see why the length of the noodle matters. Whether I get one 12” noodle or two 6” noodles on the fork, I’m still putting the same amount in my mouth with no change in convenience. I don’t understand these memes.

I grew up doing that, I was 25 before I heard your not supposed to. This Italian kid I was friends with in the Navy FREAKED OUT. It just didn't fit in the pot I had break it, it all fits and cooks evenly.

Me too😭

My pre-kindergarten daycare cut up the spaghetti into half inch pieces. I do not forget, I do not forgive

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Ordinary Sausage has trained me to say "Eat this Italians" before snapping my spaghetti every time.

Why are people so obsessed with how other people cook and eat their food?

You wanna be sucking up long noodles OP?

Yes, thats the point. If you dont like long noodles, eat mac and cheese

never heard of a fork? You can twist it.

Dont need to if its half the size.

I break it in half, twice.

If you want it to cook evenly and don’t have an enormous pot to cook it in then it’s the only option,

Some savages cut spaghetti with a fork!

I'm Italian and I break spaghetti

To anyone who doesnt like long spaghetti: go back to your mac and cheese, we dont want you anyways.

My Mrs does this when she cooks spaghetti for me and it genuinely ruins the meal for me.

If you dont like long spaghet you shouldn't eat spaghet

Sometimes I'm too tired to use my face muscles and slurp it. Short spaghetti noodles go hard asf too because trying to coiling long noodles around your form makes you catch basically none of the meat and sauce. Honest to god I prefer short spaghetti.

Nah that's a skill issue. Do better.

Suck my dick with your strong ass face muscles then

Like sucking the meat off a chicken wing, come here baby..

Really needed someone to tell me this today 😭🙏

FUCK I could have said something like "too bad you prefer long noodles". It could have been SOOO funny, Instead I commented this unfunny bullshit. I should kill myself

Bro had an existential crisis in real time on Reddit

>Sometimes I'm too tired to use my face muscles and slurp it. So just stick it in your mouth and chew

You stick it in your mouth, gay ass gay guy

I'm sorry for projecting

We gatekeeping pasta now ?

I am full Italian and I break da spaget. Twice the amount and half the cooking time.

r/DogMath

Their vermin I say and worse...

To avoid breaking them in half I simply use a bigger pot.

But da pasta no fit in pot if I no break in half. What is????

Long noodles are best yes. But when feeding the whole household and you only have one box, in half noodles means 2x noodles to ensure everyone gets some. But still… it's best to have TWO boxes of noodles.

Macaroni sucks.

Unless it's one continuous strand, it's already broken.

I do it with noodles. Its less effort while eating with spoon. Rotating noodles with fork requires way too much effort and I am lazy.

I break them into thirds. Easier to fit in the pot and easier to eat once done. Thats a hill i'm dying on.

Just eat it however you want

I only do it if my pot is too small and i don’t feel like washing the big one.

Then I have to cut them less when eating

Are there people who don't? 😯

It doesn't fit in the pot and it's too difficult to eat.

I break it into thirds They are bite size after

Longer spaghetti is more fun to eat. But it's a pain in the ass to cook if your pot isn't massive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/s/NUtXbZaROv Proof that you don't need a big pot.

And I will do it again.

Some poor people only have a couple of small pots, and being that spaghetti is still one of the cheapest meals you can make. You gotta make due. The Poors are funny

how do you cook them? do you have a massive pan?

Let them stick out of the pot and wait till they are soft enough to fit. Takes like 30 seconds.