When I get a plate of spaghetti the first thing I do is take my knife and fork and slice slice slice until the noodles are all short little bits that mix nicely with the sauce and are easy to pick up with the fork.
You’re a monster. Why not just put them in the blender and chug your spaghetti?
But seriously though, I don’t get how it’s at all more practical - if you twirl the noodles you can get a nice bite of whatever size you want, and you don’t have to worry about it falling off your fork like you do if they’re short. You can get just the right amount of sauce bound up in the noodle bundle by pulling it in the sauce or outside it too
I’m not Italian and it has nothing to do with tradition - I must’ve been 4 when I yelled at my mom for snapping the noodles so they fit in the pot because they’d be less twirly… Literally the only influence on this was my grandma teaching me that Italians use a spoon to help twirl the noodles… I never got the spoon nonsense down, but by pulling the noodles up or dipping them in the sauce, you easily get the perfect mouthful of anything from buttered linguine to spaghetti and meatballs to noodles in white or red sauce that I’m not a big fan of
It’s just so much less pleasant from every angle when you break the noodles -texture, convenience, just plain fun factor
It’s not even much harder to cook, you take boiling water and you just push the noodles into it until they go under - as long as you wait for the water to boil first, it doesn’t take any more effort or longer
When I get a plate of spaghetti the first thing I do is take my knife and fork and slice slice slice until the noodles are all short little bits that mix nicely with the sauce and are easy to pick up with the fork.
Fuck tradition, give me practicality.
You’re a monster. Why not just put them in the blender and chug your spaghetti?
But seriously though, I don’t get how it’s at all more practical - if you twirl the noodles you can get a nice bite of whatever size you want, and you don’t have to worry about it falling off your fork like you do if they’re short. You can get just the right amount of sauce bound up in the noodle bundle by pulling it in the sauce or outside it too
I’m not Italian and it has nothing to do with tradition - I must’ve been 4 when I yelled at my mom for snapping the noodles so they fit in the pot because they’d be less twirly… Literally the only influence on this was my grandma teaching me that Italians use a spoon to help twirl the noodles… I never got the spoon nonsense down, but by pulling the noodles up or dipping them in the sauce, you easily get the perfect mouthful of anything from buttered linguine to spaghetti and meatballs to noodles in white or red sauce that I’m not a big fan of
It’s just so much less pleasant from every angle when you break the noodles -texture, convenience, just plain fun factor
It’s not even much harder to cook, you take boiling water and you just push the noodles into it until they go under - as long as you wait for the water to boil first, it doesn’t take any more effort or longer
/rant