How to get the correct amount of pasta:
- Get as much as you think is right.
- Wrong.
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
I always weigh my pasta. A really large serving of pasta is ~4oz.
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.
Yes, I can eat a seemingly infinite amount of pasta. Just pasta.
I feel less alone now
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?
Fear not the mass of noodles, nor thine anxiety over the mountains of starch thy must consume, my son.
Tomorrow it will all be pasta tense.
So a half batch
good thing is I can eat pasta 3x as much as I can eat any other food. so to me it’s only 200 servings.
Spaghetti? Do this 👌. A portion is more or less what fits between the thumb and the index. Anything else is excess.
The last thing I want is to make spaghetti and still be hungry after I eat it. Whole box it is.
I usually do that with butter beans.
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
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.
You don’t have to cook the entire box.
Yes you do, @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world.
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.
The sequel to this meme would be the wizard sitting the other way
“And I ate it all in one serving”
Pro tip: weigh your pasta and you’ll never make too much again.
Italian here. That’s not a bug; that’s a feature.
