why shouldn't I?

Because it makes your dick smaller

>>8220033
because apparently you're pasta is filled with sand and it will release in a cloud and send shrapnel flying everywhere. pasta carefully now, laddies

do americans really do this?

>>8220104
In traditional Italian cuisine, breaking the pasta is called "al dente" from the root latin word meaning "to dent" or "to bend".

>>8220104
I do, it's hard enough to not get spaghetti sauce on my clothes with half length broken noodles

Full length and shit is flying everywhere, I need a bib.

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why shouldn't I?

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>>8220107

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>>8220104
TOP FUCKING KEK!

>>8220109
If this isn't bait, you are supposed to eat the spaghetti by twirling it around the fork against the plate. You can also use a tablespoon to help twirl, I find that it makes the spaghetti more compact that way.

>>8220104
I find that the americans that do that don't have any italian in them. I'm half sicilian and I'd be lying if I said it doesn't trigger me. They even sell "broken spaghetti" in some grocery stores here.

it's not even spaghetti at some point, it becomes filini or something.

>>8220116
MOOOOODS

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>>8220033

Of course you should. How do you expect the spaghetti pasta noodles to cook evenly? Also don't forget to add oil to the noodle spaghetti pasta water to prevent them sticking together, and don't make a rookie mistake and salt the pasta noodle water or you'll damage your stovecookers.

You could also buy pic related to make your life easier. Yes it's a pound.

>>8220216
>all pots are the same diameter
>pasta in the middle is same diameter as pot and it is cut shorter as it reaches the side of the pot, so it fills the pot with a perfect layer of pasta

Still no answer to OP

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save your strength OP and just buy this

>>8220216
>it's real

It's nice that you cater for the less able members of your society, I guess.

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>>8220033
If you want smaller pasta buy a pasta that is smaller.

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>>8220168
not all of us care to have a 14 inch or bigger skillet. the only right way to cook spaghetti or other long pasta is in shallow water to assure proper sauce incorporation when complete. unless you own a fucking wide pan even a pot wont let you cook pasta without over doing the ammount of water you use and make your pasta water shit.

for people with smaller pans breaking the pasta is the best thing you can do for real food, as it allows you to best marry the ingredients together and in a pasta the texture and the combination of sauce and noodle is king, not the intact shape of the pasta.

If you are legit triggered that I do this then feel free to buy me a pan big enough to fit the noodles flat inside of.

>>8220033
I have never been triggered so much and mad so much. People that break spaghetti should be denied spaghetti for the rest of there lives and if they have the audacity to break it again I feel like the death penalty is in order. It's like making a ragû Bolognese and putting cream in it. It's wrong it's just plain wrong. It's like people who rape children or people that eat babies. Some things are just not done. I'm not a puritan but some things are just the way they are for a good reason.

>>8221195
The pasta takes up the exact same volume inside the pan whether broken up or not. I don't even understand what you're talking about.

>>8220033
>why shouldn't I?
Because there's absolutely no reason to do so.

>>8221206
It doesn't trigger me, I just don't see the point.

>>8221209
If you got a pot that is not wide enough to keep the spaghetti noodles in a horizontal position it's not a bad idea. It wastes less water than keeping long as fuck noodles in a weird position because the pot is not wide enough

>>8221223
In other words, you've never cooked spaghetti.

>>8221195

I'm not sure I understand the problem. You start boiling the noodles in a pot of water. By the time you need to transfer the noodles to finish in the sauce then they are already soft and therefore don't require a huge-ass skillet, unless you're trying to prepare a large number of servings at one time.

No. Wait .. what? Spaghetti soften up and unstraighten when boiled?
Hmm, what do you know!

>>8221253
Wtf this might be the first unretarded thing i read here

Dump it in the pot, wait half a minute and push it down now that one end is soft.

Breaking it is like buying crunchy peanut butter and then blending it because you want it smooth.

>>8221206
You sound autistic m8 it literally makes no difference.

>>8220104
I'm an Aussie and I do this. Come at me, shitcunts.

>>8221408
No, you go free, as an aussie you are excused.

>>8221352
It seems this is too difficult for people.

>>8220116
such racism

OP here, so there's no real reason other than "muh authenticity"

Just say "pasta" or "noodle" and ck explodes into terminal autism levels.

>>8221429
There's no reason to do it, and no reason not to do it. So do whatever.

>>8221438
Because instead of saying "noodle" for ever single type of pasta, you can use, you know, their names. Or is remembering more than one word too difficult?

>>8220116
oh noooo bro wat r u doing xD

upvote

>>8221429
also, it is impossible to break pasta into just two pieces

>>8221442
do you also get pissed when someone calls a german shephard a dog?

the longer pieces will take longer to cook than the shorter ones.

>>8221451
>shephard
*shepherd
That word again, /ck/.

>>8221461
lol your a retart

>>8220107

Thanks for that chuckle bruh.

>>8220168

>They even sell "broken spaghetti" in some grocery stores here.

I don't believe this. This has to be bait.

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>>8221500

>>8220751

>all pots are the same diameter

And here we see the post. It weighs as much as 9 1/2 elephants and two tables, as round as 89 pots put in a really big pot and sent through a steel press and is as tall as 3 trees, 4 cars, a house and 12 people of different ages stacked on top of eachother!

>>8221500
No its real

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>>8221500

this too

>>8221518
>Enriched macaroni product

What in the fuck?

>>8221520

A legal definition of the food in whatever country it is being sold. Probably US or Canada.

>>8221520
>enriched

Instead of broken spaghetti I'm always on the look out for some type of thick spaghetti, like the kind you used to get in school lunches. Can never find any though.

>>8221531
>Can never find any though.

You have the internet and mail-order. How is this even possible?

>>8221518
But it's spaghetti not macaroni?

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>>8220116

>>8220168
>You can also use a tablespoon to help twirl
Get out of here, forever

>>8221673
high class restaurants have special plates with a hole on the side to emulate a spoon, and I really doubt you can even afford to eat in a place like this
what is it with this board, someone says something and there's alwys an assblasted sissy to take it personnaly

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>>8221531
This stuff?

>>8221691
>High class restaursnts encourage spoonghettis
America, everyone

>>8221723
I'm actually french, the country that created cuisine, you know ?
i've also worked with a "MOF", meilleur ouvrier de France, stands for "best worker of France", la crème de la crème, if you will
now take your memes somewhere else please

>>8220107
I'm afraid that somebody was trolling with you friend

>>8221845
You also invented cuckhold and mixed breeding. Whats your point?

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>>8221845
How's that gene pool working out for you guys since Napolean killed off all your real men?

>>8221845
france just ripped off italian dishes. That's the root of french cisine- doing what the italians did, but somehow make things even fuckin harder to pronounce

>>8221990
They ensured the existence of your country

>>8221964
>>>/pol/

My sister is a restaurant chef and does this
makes me mad everytime, like holy shit you actually cook for a living and dont know how to stir in pasta

>>8220168
you arent "supposed" to do anything. you arent "supposed" to eat dried pasta in the first place

>>8220168
>I'm half sicilian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqvfRYETTsY

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>>8220033

I always break my spaghetti in half, so it fits in my pot. People who don't do this for pots smaller than the spaghetti length are not to be trusted and may be considered to be terrorists or at least arsonists.

>>8222476

dude you need a larger pot. Spend $5 at a fucking thrift store.

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>>8222496

>>8222537
Kurt?!

>>8220107
underrated as fuck post

>>8220168
>They even sell "broken spaghetti" in some grocery stores here.

Never change, Ameribros.

>>8222484

Mmmm.

Just like Nonna use to make!

>>8222537
oliv oil mother fucker.

>>8220107
This post caused me to "el chuckle" meaning "to chuckle" or "to lol".

>>8222476
>>8222482
>>8222484
What the fuck? You don't just leave full length noodles standing in the water and walk away you need to gently press them into the water once the submerged portion becomes soft.

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>Preparing pasta for whatever
>Noodles are settling in nicely, walk away to get tongs
>turn around, aunt pouring olive oil into the water, smiling at me
>Later the spaghetti al nero is oily and almost flavorless because the sauce can't stick to the noodles
>Somehow i am to blame for this development
I desire oblivion.

>>8221195
>the only right way to cook spaghetti or other long pasta is in shallow water
>proper sauce incorporation when complete
Wait, do you cook the pasta together with the sauce?

>>8223809
>aunt pouring olive oil into the water, smiling at me
that line is somewhat creepy

>>8220107
I'm italian and i can confirm

>>8223809
My immediate family does this to all our pasta. My sister came back from staying with some cousins and bragged about how she showed them to add olive oil, when they were probably all screaming internally at her to stop ruining their food.

>>8223925
i imagined she's missing a few teeth and has a milky eye

>>8220107
zitto animale

>>8220033
If you can't fit spaghetti in your pot why don't you just fucking use penne or something?

>>8222537
I did this to noodles by accident.
Sure, it looked fancy, but cleaning the pot was pain

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>>8220107

Byut what abyout Go'tza!

>>8220033
I do it because I don't like using a gallon of water everytime I want to eat pasta.

>>8225456

So what you're saying is that you willingly cook your pasta improperly?

The more water the better.

>>8221157
i was just at the grocery store and i saw "pot size" spaghetti, which was basically just noodles half the size of standard(?) spaghetti noodles.

i thought spaghetti noodles were already pot-sized?

>>8220168
>I find that the americans that do that don't have any italian in them. I'm half sicilian and I'd be lying if I said it doesn't trigger me. They even sell "broken spaghetti" in some grocery stores here.
You are not half sicilian. You are Anericans, actual Italians hate you guys and are ashamed and would never acknowledge kinship with you, so why do you cling so hard to this identity?

>>8222463
While I hate sicilians this is incredibly inaccurate

>>8221993
it's hard to speak clearly when you eat 4 sticks of butter a day

>>8225456
How does breaking your spaghetti mean you use less water?

>>8225566

I assume he means that when the spaghetti is broken he can fit it into a smaller pot.

But that's kind of stupid because pasta is best cooked in the largest possible amount of water. Just because you can fit broken spaghetti into a smaller pot of water doesn't mean that is a good idea.

>>8225571
But he's talking about the same volume of spaghetti, meaning it can fit in exactly the same pots.

>>8220107
stupid asshole no it doesn't I'm part Italian dente means teeth, all dente pasta is when there's chewiness to the pasta, don't listen to this idiot ppl

>>8223809
>live with someone from an italian family
>frequently brags about how good hse is at cooking italian foods
>puts olive oil in the water
>explain to her how that keeps the sauce form sticking to it
>whenever I cook pasta I add a bit of salt to the water
>"ew anon that's not the italian way to do it, it'll get all salty!"

>>8225577

How do you plan on fitting, say, a 12-inch long noodle into a pot that's only, say, 6 inches in diameter, without overcooking one end? If you break the noodles in half they fit into the small pot without one end of the noodles sticking up in the air.

>>8225595
Get a 12 inch pot

>>8225617

Yes, that's what I do. But you seem to be missing the point. Someone earlier in the thread suggested breaking the spaghetti so that a smaller pot could be used. I think that idea is silly, but I was explaining how it would work.

>>8225591
it's latin bro, chill out

>>8220109
Just cut up the pasta with a knife and fork when you got it on your plate.

>>8225595
It takes seconds for the noodles to become soft enough to push the rest in. If you grab the bundle before dropping it and twist it, they fall outwards giving you a perfect distribution that slips in easily.

>>8225595
What this guy said >>8225642
Just push the spaghetti down into the pot. It takes literally one second to become soft, and about 5 seconds to get the spaghetti completely submerged.

>>8225595
Holy crap you people are retarded

>>8221352
easiest way is to grab the spaghetti with a pair of tongs and gently twist it into the pot. i never went back to breaking pasta or waiting for it to cook on one end, etc. shit really works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYhKDweME3A

>>8225694
that won't work with a thicker noodle, though.

at least, not as quickly. that's how i do it with linguine, but it's not instant like in the video.

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>>8221520

>>8221408
Kys cunt

>>8220168
Shut the fuck up you worthless poser