Pro tip: weigh your pasta and you’ll never make too much again.
I learned that as a child from my mum, so it seemed basic knowledge to me. But I guess, Americans don’t use scales that much.
Most recipes say 100g per serving (1/5 pound) but it’s best to know your individual needs.
Exactly right, and weighing isn’t volume dependant, so you can weigh macaroni and spaghetti with the same tool and always get the same mass of pasta. It’s just the superior measurement for kitchens.
Is 5 pounds enough?
You’ll find out! And the beauty of weight is it never changes so when you figure out that it’s somewhere north of 100g you’ll never make too much again.
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…
I have a couple pastas that make good leftovers, but if I’m not planning on them I’ll gorge myself on the entire four person meal of pasta
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.
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…
Ackchully Clostridium botulinum is an obligate anaerobe from soil and should never grow in conditions of old pasta. The oxygen alone would kill it.
You’re thinking of bacillus cereus, which grows on cooked rice or pasta stored at room temperature.
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’m a scientist, metric is practically my 2nd language.
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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…
Hey Euros. Do you guys buy 250g pasta packages or 500g? We pretty much only sell 1 pound packages in the US which is a little less than 500g. I’ve never seen 8oz pasta in the US even though it’d likely make sense.
They sell half pound boxes now.
I’ve never seen 8oz pasta in Maryland.
That’s because the pasta industry avoids Maryland. For obvious reasons.
Old Bay pasta salad resulted in an Italian embargo.
It’s a shame really. My heart goes out to the northeast.
500g usually
You don’t have to cook the entire box.
Yes you do, @[email protected].
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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.
Yeah 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 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.
I’ve got a second stomach for ice cream, maybe yours is for pasta
But it’s not that I love pasta in a special way, it’s okay-ish
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.
Yes, I can eat a seemingly infinite amount of pasta. Just pasta.
I feel less alone now
No problem. Means I’ll get fried noodles tomorrow.
Do a #noScrapLeftBehind post on [email protected] !
How to get the correct amount of pasta:
- Get as much as you think is right.
- Wrong.
- Eat it all anyway because pasta is delicious.
Italian here. That’s not a bug; that’s a feature.
The hole on the back of the spaghetti lifter tool is perfect for measuring a single serving.
wtf is a “spaghetti lifter”?
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.
Make sure to clean before and after use.
Spaghetti? Do this 👌. A portion is more or less what fits between the thumb and the index. Anything else is excess.
Side note: Only works with average size hands, I can fit more than a pound of dry spaghetti between thumb and index
The last thing I want is to make spaghetti and still be hungry after I eat it. Whole box it is.
Because honestly left over spaghetti is almost better than fresh. 👍
