The One Spaghetti Rule You Should Never Break

Spaghetti night is a cherished night in any household. Whether you are dousing it with sauce made from an old family recipe passed through generations, or tossing it with garlic and oil, it is essential to cook the noodles properly. However, successfully cooking noodles isn’t as easy as boiling water and hoping for the best. Boil them too long, and you end up with mush. Don't cook them long enough, and you end up with a crunchy pasta arrabbiata. Luckily, there is a secret to successfully achieving the perfect al dente pasta. We are here to impart the one spaghetti rule you should never break.

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[MashedFood]

What are some of your rules for making spaghetti?

[jacksagrafsky]

ALWAYS SAVE A PORTION OF THE WATER!!! It is an important key to a silky and great sauce of any kind!!

[richdorak]

#1 rule of cooking it : Pasta's gotta swim. A too small pot is unforgivable.

[kimopuppy]

Not Italian and I hate twirling and slurping noodles so I break them in half

[maryscottoconnor]

Wrong. The unbreakable rule is SALT THE WATER FIRST.

[sus_the_catholic]

ok but im not Italian, i dont live in Italy, i do what i want with MY spaghetti

[edkeaton]

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti." -- SOPHIA LOREN 😋🍝❤️🇧🇬

[nxxynx]

Italians when you don't mix the boiled pasta with the sauce to specific holy regulations

[michaelvitale]

Been breaking them in half my whole life. And mama did too 😁

[raynagel]

I have been to Italy and the Italians taught me how to twirl spaghetti with a spoon and a fork! I had never heard of that until then.

[brennanodea]

Breaking the spaghetti noodles in half, to me, is more effective. All the pasta in the pot in 1 go, at the same time. You CAN still twirl the pasta on a fork no problem. I do it all the time (to the dismay of my doctor... carbs are bad.) In fact, with a half strand of noodles, your fork won't be overloaded with a varitable wad of pasta.

I'm of Irish ancestry, so Italian taboos are not my concern. The only worry I have is, will I catch a piece of spaghetti shrapnel in the eye upon the breaking of the bundle of noodles?

[nd]

I’ve never heard of using a spoon to help twirl it, it’s too easy to do it with just the fork and nothing else

[vissitorsteve]

Maybe I'm missing something, but why hasn't anyone ever come up with an elongated pasta pot instead of round so you can just place your pasta in the water and don't have to keep moving it until it's all under water so often?

[williammatthews]

Perfect timing as I'm fixing spaghetti today with Brenda Gantt's recipe for homemade spaghetti sauce. It's gonna be good y'all.

[Norm]

There is no damn rule when cooking pasta or anything else as long as you and your family like the end result. I break cooking rules all the time.

[luckychucky]

I don't know who the hell made up these rules I break the spaghetti in half in the pot and it put a little salt not a lot of and I tested every now and then cuz I do like it al dente there's always somebody that wants to make it harder than what it really is

[wrightgregson]

do like my Viet family does: cook spaghetti in the widest deep FRYING pan. the pan is wide enough to hold the pasta without having to break it to fit.

[roberthart]

Regardless of what the Italians say about using a spoon, it saves a lot of splatted sauce from getting on ones clothes

[qswpvxm]

I mean like.... if people can't even cook pasta correctly they should probably stick to microwave or oven meals

[GH-oijf]

I think everybody who doesn’t have a tall pot just does what I do. I stand over the pot and push the spaghetti down as soon as it will bend.

This example looks like too much salt to me. I salt water to no more than “normal saline, ” which is 9 g/l. I compute that as about 1/8 c Morton Coarse Kosher to 2 2/3 qt water.