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Do You Break Spaghetti in Half?

Marcus Vance • • 6 min read
Do You Break Spaghetti in Half?

Don't break the noodles before cooking
It's tempting to snap the noodles in half so that they're all submerged safely in the pot. After all, you'd assume that will ensure they cook more evenly. However, apparently this is a big pasta faux pas.

Should I break spaghetti in half?

The reason why you should not break pasta is that it's supposed to wrap around your fork. That's how long pasta is supposed to be eaten. ... If you break your long pasta in half, you'll have shorter strands that are a pain to be eaten and then you get the people who [shudder] use a knife to eat spaghetti.

Can you break spaghetti in two?

The answer, according to a new MIT study, is yes — with a twist. In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report that they have found a way to break spaghetti in two, by both bending and twisting the dry noodles.

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