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Pot-Ready Spaghetti
Apr
14
2015
Normally, making spaghetti involves breaking the noodles in half. If you don’t, it ends up looking like this:
Because the noodles are longer than the pot is wide.
But someone realized that there is no reason for all spaghetti noodles to be that long, since people usually break them for cooking or cut them for eating. So grocery stores are now selling these:
That’s right – pot-ready spaghetti.
It’s the same amount of spaghetti as usual, just twice as many noodles and half as long.
But that got be thinking – there must be another way to solve this problem. And there is!
It’s the spaghetti-ready pot.
Why do the noodles have to change? Why can’t the pot change?
Speak a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Put on the pot, put it on and also pour water in it;”‘
Ezekiel 24:3
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:23 am and has been carefully placed in the Ideas category.
April 14th, 2015 at 9:16 am
BTW – They do make spaghetti pots http://tinyurl.com/mhbt3fd
April 14th, 2015 at 10:19 am
I’ve never broken the noodles in half. If you boil the water before putting the noodles in, they bend to water level in about 60 seconds.
However, I always end up with too much on my fork, so I might start breaking them in half ahead of time rather than cutting it up later. Thanks for the tip.
April 14th, 2015 at 10:05 pm
Jeff – But how do you stir spaghetti in such a narrow pot?
Ricky – I’ve heard that some people soak the noodles in cold water until they soften and then add them to the pot for cooking. But you don’t need to break them, just buy the shorter noodles.
April 16th, 2015 at 8:58 am
But breaking them is so satisfying. That crunch!