• Psythik@lemm.ee
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      This is the way, just don’t use all of the sauce, or it’ll all absorb into the pasta, leaving you with a dry, yet mushy spaghetti when you reheat it the next day. The secret is to mix in about 2 or 3 ladlefulls of sauce with the pasta and then store the rest in a separate container.

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    Who the fuck stores plain pasta like that? It was already a giant gelatinous cube the moment you refrigerated it.

    Also people please cook your pasta in the tomato sauce. Drain the pasta a minute or two before your preferred tenderness and then cook the pasta in the tomato sauce. It’s so much better.

    • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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      Yeah, I have questions about how one ends up with an entire pack of spaghetti as “leftovers”.

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        The trick is to add the pasta then add more meat and more sauce to account for the too many noodle problem. Then you take the pots and separate them into vats to meal prep for the century

    • Aksamit@slrpnk.net
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      26 days ago

      Batter and breadcrumb your slice of congealed noodles, and pan fry it.

      (If you want to make yet another food culture twitch, you can call this a kugel.)

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Tcouple slices in the toaster to get nice and crispy, fill with Cheetos and ketchup, bone apple teeth

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        26 days ago

        Hell no! Not about the toaster but I’m just eating it unflavored. Its one of my childhood favorites. If I added anything to it it would be a little salsa.

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    26 days ago

    I know enough people who break their spaghetti before cooking them or who cut them before serving them.

    I die a little inside every time.

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        It goes against my culinary convictions. 😄

        It is meant to be enjoyed in its full, long form - in my book. Breaking spaghetti changes the texture and how it twirls around a fork, thus changing the classic dining experience.

        Plus, long spaghetti is (are?) perfect for catching the sauce evenly.

        None of this will keep anyone from breaking them, but it keeps my world safe and sound. 😁

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          Nah, i prefer to cut and mix them instead of that thwirling and slurping. They could make Spaghetti Couscous-sized for all i care. But you do you.

      • Madison420@lemmy.world
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        26 days ago

        You need to watch the pot but laying them over the pot of boiling water until they’re soft enough to bend in the middle works fine.

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      Me too. What are you supposed to do? Extra work?

      I furl each strand carefully? Soak in hot water and have slimey spaghetti? Lick the entire bundle slowly till it warms up and unfurls? Rest on bosom until it unfurls?

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          Unpossible! if you don’t want to heat up or eat it all at once, Surely sauce is going to splash on your tuxedo…