break the spaghetti

posted on July 6, 2024

okay, i swear this aint supposed to be a controversial topic, but what the fuck.

what’s with the annoying meme that somehow breaking spaghetti (or any other type of long dried pasta for that matter) is a major sin? i know and agree that most of it is just the “haha stereotype” kind of thing, but it’s so overplayed it’s annoying.

this is only about dry, long pasta. obviously i wouldnt think about cutting long, fresh pasta.

first of all, it’ll taste the same. maybe it’ll roll in a different way on the fork because they’re shorter. but, it LITERALLY does not matter except for a few situations during cooking:

you have a small pot.
you want to use less water in the pot (save the planet and all that jazz. i swear my grandma always boils like 1.5 liters of water for 200g of pasta)

i’ve even seen people saying that if it’s longer, it “holds” the sauce better (e.g. tomato sauce), but that just seems like bs.

i would say the only valid objection is that if you don’t know how to break them properly, you’ll probably fill your room with small pieces of pasta since usually they break off in 3 parts and fly off into the ether.

i think all the “scientific” arguments i’ve seen are pure copium. shit about starch release, structural integrity… dude, just gimme a fucking break. it’s pasta, who gives a crap. not enough of a crap to embark on a crusade against the way some people make food, rofl.