How to get the correct amount of pasta:
- Get as much as you think is right.
- Wrong.
S friend of mine did that with rice some years ago. Instead of cooking like one cup he filled the pot about halfway. Needless to say, that we got free rice that day.
I always weigh my pasta. A really large serving of pasta is ~4oz.
No matter how much pasta you make, you’re obligated to eat it in a single sitting.
This is the way.
This is the way I die.Not like this…slurp…not like this…
Do a #noScrapLeftBehind post on !zerowaste@slrpnk.net !
The hole on the back of the spaghetti lifter tool is perfect for measuring a single serving.
wtf is a “spaghetti lifter”?
Make sure to clean before and after use.
A spaghetti lifter is kind of a spoon with fingers so you’re almost right.
I just cut a hole in the corner and slide it out.
Or tear a big of the box lid off, but boxes aren’t as common anymore.
Always lagom. Enough for one meal and a bit left over for a snack later / next day.
It’s a spoon like contraption that is deep, has fingers, and a hole in the back. You use it to lift cooked spaghetti out of the pot.
Looks like this https://www.katom.com/165-10087.html?srsltid=AfmBOoq70hs32JV0FJhNOm5KTWA2SnuFmN9irqlWRJESU_f0maUW7IAbSFY&gQT=1
Oh I just call that the spaghetti ladle.
Pretty sure mine doesn’t have a hole that measures spaghetti.
When I was looking for a photo, I noticed that most have the slots now instead of the round hole that measures a serving of dry spaghetti. And the ones with round holes were mostly plastic. Mine is metal and may be Oxo brand.
I was gonna say I’ve no idea of my brand but ofc I do, it’s IKEA
No problem. Means I’ll get fried noodles tomorrow.
Anyone else have a weird thing where pasta does not make them feel full?
I could probably eat 3 times as much pasta by weight as I could, let’s say, rice. And I would only have to stop because I physically feel that there is no more room in my stomach. It’s like my brain does not register pasta as food and so I don’t mentally feel full or get any less hungry.
And it’s just with pasta! Not bread, not rice, not pizza, not lasagna, nada. It is very weird and I never heard of anyone with the same issue.
Ps, because of this, I just cannot make too much pasta, no such thing.
I have the opposite issue. Pasta makes me feel bloated.
I’ve notice that for a few years now. I believe the quality has been worst and worst. I never buy the cheapest brands, I look for the thickest looking ones. I prefer egg pasta and stay far away for the 3-minutes ones.
You might want to try whole grain pasta.
I’m similar but will all carbs - only proteins make me feel full, unless there’s meat involved I generally don’t consider it a meal. Carbs and veggies do not make me full at all and I never crave them, they’re only there to give me variety and make me feel civilized while I consume meat. I never really crave sugar either.
P.S. I’m not one of those “meat-only diet” whackjobs and I have nothing against vegetarians or vegans or animals but this has just been my experience entirely.
That’s the weird thing. It’s not about the nutrient type because other types of carbs do make me feel full. It’s just specifically pasta. I don’t know why. I could easily eat a bowl of rice and feel full but I could eat three bowls of pasta and just know that I’m full but not feel it.
Lucky. For me it’s either spend more money to eat beef or pork with every meal or just cope with always feeling low-key hungry.
Oh well, guess I’m eating pasta this month. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You’re gonna show up in a youtube video.
A 30 year old presented to the E.R. with a bloated stomach and high fever. He claims to have eaten the same pasta for 30 days. As we know, botulism starts to grow on noodles after three days, which means…
Start weighing your pasta. You’ll never cook too much again.
Start weighing EVERYTHING. The consistency your dishes reach is crazy good! A weighing scale isn’t that expensive
Do people not use kitchen weights? It’s a very common thing where I live (in Europe)
Hell, I often just use a kitchen weight to measure volume of water instead of using a measuring cup, as 1 liter of water ~= 1 kilogram
americans have to deal with insane units like pints and ounces
I mean yea but last time I made spaghetti all the recipes were like xx weight(cooked). WTF am I supposed to do with that?
You’re supposed to disregard it. Just boil enough pasta for however many servings you want, a serving of dry pasta is 60g. Why are you using a recipe for spaghetti?
To figure out how much pasta to use so I don’t make too much…
Ah see it wasn’t bread that jesus handed out on the mound it was a small batch of pasta
Did pasta exist in Jesus’ time? I don’t think they mention it much in the Bible.
That’s ok – you just don’t need to cook for a nearest year or so if your family is of size of 2.
How do I make my family of size 2?
Take a lesson from Anakin
I don’t know, catch a woman, close her in the closet. Something like that. No idea, how would I know?
Slip a bowl of pasta through the closet door every day.
