give me ONE (1) good reason why I shouldn't break up my

>>8678447
For every noodle you break, an Italian Grandma slips and breaks her hip.

>>8678447
So you wont be considered a faggot

>>8678447
Because you are not a child

>>8678447
Don't feel bad, I break them too. Who wants to flip spaghetti sauce on their shirt because they are eating 12" noodles

>>8678447
it creates mustard gas

>>8678447
No fucks given, OP.
When I was 14 I saw some korean guy cutting his tomato sauce spaghetti into pieces before eating it. Changed my life. I never bothered with the spaghetti spoon ever again. Italians are SHIT at eating utensils.

>>8678447
Because your family might want longer noodles. Cut them after you serve your bowl.

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>>8678447
who the fuck cooks noodles in tomato sauce.

>>8678460
>>8678464
Not valid reasons

>>8678447
your pot is big enough

>>8678453
its like you want me to break them

my mom made a dish she called "macaroni in tomatoes juice" and it was broken in half spagetti cooked in boiled tomato juice

i don't know if she made it up or what

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>>8678751

>>8678764
That was Chef Boyardee, my man.

>>8678614
People who like flavour.

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>>8678806
nope. i remember the giant can of tomato juice specifically

>>8678447
Because it doesn't need it? Just let it soften in the hot water.

Is there any reason to even boil spaghetti?
Why not just throw it into your tomato sauce on the stove and cook it that way and also infuse it with the sauce at the same time?

>>8679750
the starch muddles the flavor of the sauce. however, if you don't care, you can totally do that.

>>8678618
then break away you underage faggot

>>8678447
Because it makes the noodles shorter?

IDGAF how you care to eat your pasta, though.
Eat what you want.

>>8678614
people who don't know how to italian properly

>>8678447
Why would anyone do this? Half length spaghetti you can't twirl with your fork nor can you easily shovel into your mouth. It's pretty much worst of the both worlds.

>>8678447
>noodles

Well you're a fucking mouth breathing moron anyway, so do whatever you like.

Wait there are people that don't cut in half before putting it in the water?

If you just put half in at first and then let it soften so the whole piece is in the water, won't your spaghetti be cooked unevenly? Maybe my saucepan is just tiny

>>8680214
are you actually retarded?

>>8680214
It only takes a few seconds to soften enough to bend in the pan.

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>>8680214
20 seconds out of 8 minutes.

>>8680252
>>8680264
>>8680272
Maybe it's because I'm in Australia but I've just tried it and it took easily two minutes to become soft enough

>>8680277
Let your water boil first

>>8680282
It was boiling you dickhead, it took 2 minutes to become soft enough to push in

>>8680277
>I'm in Australia
there's your problem, you tried to cook them up side down

>>8680277
larger pot, also the ends that arent in from the beginning basically get steamed, you wont even be able to notice the difference between both ends even if you wait til they slide in by themselves

>>8680287
Pot too small? Too many spaghs bunched together?
Were you even trying?
You have to bend them, not just let them bend under their own weight.

>>8678447
Italians don't do it. Chinese don't do it. Japanese don't do it.
So many peoples whose cuisines are deemed among the best in the world have developed long noodles for a reason.
If you can't see it, either you can't cook or you can't eat.

Also >>8680174

And just fyi, I'm italian and I do break spaghetti, depending on what I'm making.
1/5th to 1/6th length spaghetti is perfect for thick soup pasta, like pasta with lentils or beans.

>>8680320
Why not just buy pasta better suited for it then?

>>8678447
Because it's unnecessary. Do it if you want, but don't stand there and tell me 'I HAVE TO'

>>8678764
Are you from Cape Breton; my mom did that shit too. It was revolting.

>>8678614
This.

>>8680361
Acadien?

>>8680363
wow, great post. deep, insightful. really adds to the thread

>>8678764
>macaroni in tomatoes juice
>is actually spaghetti
serious question: is your mom retarded?

>>8680375
Not this.

>>8678447
it literally doesn't matter, only /co/ is triggered by this. break it, don't break it, it all winds up the same on an eating utensil

>>8678814
And that's where you are a faggot.
Pasta it's like a blank sheet where you impress the flavour of what you're cooking.
That's why you cook pasta and its choosen ingredient in separate pots, and then mix it minutes prior to serving.
If you cook pasta directly in the sauce you'll get uneven times of cooking of the spaghetti, resulting in a shit pattern of consinstencies, you'll muddle the flavour of the sauce with the starch naturally released from the pasta, and a real fucking mess in general.
This not counting visual, that is really important in food. Freshly made pasta with a nice bright colour and a fiery red spot of sauce with a leaf or two of basil. Now compare it to red-greysh mud with slippery noodly things in it. What would you eat?

>>8678614
What a rascal

Current amount of reasons not to break up pasta ITT: 0

>>8680383
Why would /co/ give a shit about cooking pasta?

>>8680405
Care to elaborate why you felt the need to start this thread if you had already decided you wouldn't accept any answer other than your own?

>>8680405
Kys

>>8678453
Today I learned that Japan can take over Italy just by changing their ramen habits

Wtf, noodles? the name is "spaghetti"

>>8680320
Italians do it when it comes to eat "pasta e fagioli" or other pasta where you actually cook it directly in vetables or legumes, like a soup.
those are particular type of dishes tho.

But not directly in sauces. spagetti have to cook in salted boiling water, then strain it and adding sauces.

>>8680405
Yeah, seems that way. I'm going to keep doing it

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>>8680405
Because you'd never enjoy this moment of blossoming romance

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>>8678447
because you can never wrap the ingredients in a saucefull nest of spaghetti like pic related .
i'm italian i'm sorry for my english but at least i do not broke my spaghetti

>>8680432
Read the thread, there are literally no reasons for not doing it. I'm not even the OP.

>>8680674
You can do that with spaghetti broken in half with no problems

>>8680277
Either your water isn't boiling fast enough or you're trying to cook a pound of spaghetti at a time. Whenever I do it, my spaghetti bends slowly into the pot the very moment I insert it and push down. It takes a maximum of 20 seconds to get it fully submerged, even in a pot as small as a quart/litre.

Snapping your spaghetti changes the texture. With full length spaghetti, each mouthful has a thicker, fuller and ultimately more satisfying bite to it.

>>8680389
Correct!

>>8680389
>not cooking in broth

>>8680782
does it actually taste better?

>>8680389
Not only that, but the temperature required to boil pasta is much higher than the gentle simmer most sauces need. Pasta cooked at too low a temperature becomes a sticky, mushy mess.

>>8678614
>calling spaghetti noodles

Noodles are what you get from the chinkies

>>8680794
Knorr Chicken Stock Pot™ makes your pasta taste better, than salt. You should try it.

>>8680361
no but my mom lived that way for a time maybe there is where she got it from

>>8680804
I can't listen to him say that without cringing

>>8680794
The things which give broth its flavor aren't as soluble as salt, so I'm not sure if they'd impart much flavor or if the pasta would just absorb plain water, leaving a concentrated stock.

pic is spahetti, not noodles

>>8680821
>spaghetti isn't a noodle

>>8678464
not that anon but I don't understand why breaking noodles equates to childishness. do parents make a big deal out of breaking noodles when cooking for their kids and not breaking them when only cooking for adults?

>>8680361

Get ready for the noreaster tomorrow. stock up on watery tomato noodles

>>8680361
>>8680836
hey fellow cuck bretoners

>>8680833
>do parents make a big deal out of breaking noodles when cooking for their kids

Yes. Young children sometimes have problems eating long noodles without making a big mess so the parents break the noodles to make them easier for young children to eat.

>>8680842
huh. I always just did it so they fit in the pot. but then I don't have kids so I don't spend a lot of time being concerned about what kids do.

>>8678453
Europeans always boast about free healthcare so why should it be my problem?

>>8680850
>I always just did it so they fit in the pot

You're supposed to boil pasta in a fuckhuge pot. The higher the ratio of water:pasta the better results you get. If you have to break the pasta to make it fit in your pot then you're using too small of a pot.

>>8680866
or maybe the pasta is just too big... and I need to break them in order for them to cook evenly

>>8680866
maybe I don't want to go out and buy a pot the size of my car to make pasta just to prove I'm a grownup

>>8680873

You shouldn't be buying it to prove you're a grownup. You should be buying it so your pasta has better texture when you prepare it.

Not to mention a big pot like that has countless other important uses in the kitchen--making stock, soup, deep-frying, etc.

>>8678447
If you wait like 90 seconds, the longer pasta will soften and the water will take it all in. It's not work. And it isn't like you aren't going to avoid the pot entirely, because you will stir the pasta in the beginning anyway a couple times, past the sticking point. Get some water flow in there. Moving those noodles down into the water isn't much different.

When eating longer noodles, they wrap around the fork tines better, so you get a clean mouth entry, without too many floppy edges flinging sauce along the way. It's great to have noodles that wrap all the way around your fork in a tight little ball, not several loosey goosey short ones that could exit the tines and hit your plate again and splatter a shirt between plate and mouth.

>>8680866
Or you can just push down on the pasta as your putting it in, resulting in fully submerged pasta in around 10 seconds

>>8679552
>Canada Fancy

Every fucking time. Biggest embarrassment in the western hemisphere

>>8680380
This.

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My dad will smash these up while they're in the bag- like into tiny little bits. Then he'll pour some hot water on them, wait five minutes, and eat them with a spoon

>>8680886
who the hell deep fries stuff at home? you'd have to deep fry something EVERY SINGLE DAY in order to justify that kind of titanic usage of oil

>>8678447
your noodles will resent you.

>>8681014
I deep fry stuff at home. It's easy. I certainly don't do it every day, but it's nice to be able to do so when the need arises. I have notice that for some reason many home cooks seem afraid of it. I don't know why.

>>titanic usage of oil

You know you can re-use it many times, right?

Also, the idea behind using a large pot for deep-frying is to fill it only partway. The extra height in the pot above the oil is for safety so you don't accidentally splash oil out onto the stovetop. It also makes for less cleanup.

>>8681014
You can leave the oil and let it sit in between uses.

The main issue would be having a huge pot of oil sitting on the hob all the time.

>>8681030
i know you can reuse it lots of times but where do you store it in between usages? do you pour it off into its own bottle?

>>8681042

I have a dedicated deep fryer. When I'm done using it I put the lid on it.

Before I got the deep fryer I bought a cheap large pot that I kept for deep-frying. When I was done using it I put the lid on it. When it cooled down I put it in the cupboard.

>>8681038
It only has to sit on the hob while it's hot. Once it's cooled down you can store it elsewhere.

>>8681053
how do you get rid of the oil once you're done, I can't imagine the sink taking it

>>8681056

I pour the old oil into a random container (temporarily). Then I wash out the fryer/pot. I refill the fryer/pot with new oil. Then I pour the old oil into the now-empty container that the new oil came in, then chuck it in the garbage can.

I've also disposed of it in various other random empty containers that might be in the trash can. I've used empty gatorade bottles, empty laundry detergent bottles, etc.

>>8681068
so the garbage man takes it then

>>8681071

Yes.

>>8681038
>>8681030
How long/often can you reuse it before it begins to harbor harmful bacteria?

>>8678447
>noodles
go ahead retard

>>8681092

Bacteria isn't a problem, especially given the temperatures that you heat it up to when you're using it.

What degrades the oil is:
1) oxidization. Exposure to air. You can fight that problem by closing the container of oil with a lid.

2) food particles getting into the oil. You strain the oil through a sieve to remove the particles.

3) Thermal breakdown. Some oils last longer than others. Peanut oil is a great option because it has a very high smoke point and is still reasonably priced. There are other oils with higher smoke points but those tend to be very expensive to get in enough quantity for deep frying.

I have never kept an exact count, but I generally refill my fryer every 3 months or so, during which I have used it dozens of times. I've never had the oil go rancid from air contact.

>>8681092
not the same guy, but i imagine you can reuse it for weeks. any bacteria would be killed each time you cook with it. the main concern would probably be the fact that it'll become more carcinogenic the more you reuse it

>>8680366
>>>8680361 (You)
>Acadien?
Way back yes, but my families were fucked into inbred Scots long ago.

>>8680840
>>>8680361 (You)
>>>8680836
>hey fellow cuck bretoners
I miss Cape Breton; god the pizza in Ontario is shit

>>8680320
>>8680453
Read the second half, retard.

>>8681014
a deep fryer costs like $35 and you leave the oil in it

i never order deep fried foods out any more because i can do it 100x better at home. i don't even buy chips

>>8680934
i don't think you have to worry about it anymore, heinz sold the factory

>>8678447

I fucking love noodles in any shape or form.
I never break the fucking sghetti in half, takes an extra 20 seconds for the top layer to bend, and you got nice long thick sgetti.

>Also why are long noodles good?
Cuz you can slurp them up like a motherfucker. Best part about eating any noodle dish.
I'm Chinese so we eat like animals basically, and I slurp the fuck outa my noodles.

I have a white gf, and when I started slurping noodles in front of her she was like wtf? have you no table manners?
I told her to her in my culture and many asian cultures the slurping is a sign of good food.
Ever since then she doesn't question it, and even slurps herself.

Hell I was over at her parents and told them the same shit and now they slurp.

fuck yea slurping

>>8678447
you will remind me of my father before he left to live with his second secret family

>>8680277

The noodles aren't soft, a scorpion broke in and poisoned them to death when you weren't looking, I'm surprised you even managed to buy them without drop bears flying out the register

>>8680291
Kek

>>8678447
if it's spaghetti its "pasta"
>>8681622
guess how I know you're underage?