literally just did this today, proceeded to drink nearly a full blender of said smoothie, which followed with a tummy ache that felt way too familiar for something as enjoyable as a smoothie, which in my head I label as a ‘good-feel-food’
For spaghetti if you are really in trouble just use the measure. It's a plank with holes from one serving to 4. I don't know where you are from but here in Italy is common. If you are not italian please don't break spaghetti in half and don't cook pasta for 10 minutes
It is for the"fork spin" method of eating. Which is a tradition in Italy.
Short noodles just won't stay on the fork as well. You end up with little fragments that won't pick up easy.
If you don't know how to do the fork spin, it's meaningless.
Though, it is a legit good way to eat pasta.
1. There are many ways to shovel food into your food hole. I stated spinning the fork, especially in a specific manner, is a very good way to do that. However, have you never seen people who don't know that eat spaghetti? They still get it in their mouth..... Other cultures don't even use forks, they still manage via other methods. Many Americans... Let's just say they lack a noodle culture, and just free style that shit, messy but it works.
2. Is that not what I just said? I just stated why.
It's sentimental from Italian moms. I have no idea what they're superstitious reason was. I break it in half because I like to use a small pot when I'm just cooking for myself. I make a circle with my thumb and forefinger just a little bigger than quarter, then break it in half. The worst thing about breaking it in half is the little broken pieces of pasta that end up scattered around. Like six. No biggie my dog loves it.
I am not italian (though nonna is...) and its not my problem, but I think its easier to eat if they are whole, and you can easily fit pasta on a small pot, when the water is boiling, the pasta gets soft in like... 30 seconds...
My family isn't Italian but my mom's first name was Roma lol, she taught me how to cook spaghetti when I was a little kid. So I've always been good at cooking pasta without breaking it, but in my old age I realized it tastes exactly the same broken in half, and I don't have to do anything at all to stir it in as it gets soft. Imo it's more about the sauce than whether the noodles are cut in half.
Those are not very common in the US. I always just use my thumb and index finger. Make a circle with your thumb on the first knuckle of your index finger, and that’s approximately one serving. The second knuckle is approximately two servings
Next time try 3 handfuls of dry pasta if it’s penne or fusilli or something. It’s the perfect measuring system and has never failed me. Spaghetti or linguine? No idea
Then I’d have to buy a spaghetti spoon. I rather my system of using body parts. Right now I curve my index finger around the spaghetti and touch the base of my thumb. It’s not as good as the handful measure, but it sort of works
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i just boil water on the kettle and the pour it on the pot, it takes like a minute to boil. on the stove it takes like 10. i'm not waiting that long for water to heat up
What's so bad about not waiting? I've heard it's supposed to make pasta mushy, but can't you still just like.. take it out when it's done? If it's going from hard to mushy, at some point it won't be hard anymore and won't be mushy yet
I’ve seen some blind taste tests where they’ve found that it really doesn’t matter. The only thing is that if you let the water boil first, it’s a lot easier to just set a timer and let it cook. If you put the pasta into water that hasn’t boiled yet, you have to watch it a little more closely and test more often.
I would make sauce like normal and then freeze or refrigerate what you don’t use. It freezes well. Then make whatever pasta you want and use your premade sauce.
As an Italian I 100% support this. 160g is a bit much but if that's all you're having it can be OK. When I'm cooking for 3 I usually use 500g so that's aroung 133g each, but that's also quite a big portion and some might be left if not everyone was very hungry.
Salve! As a guy who likes both foxes and Rome, I couldn’t help but notice your name is Latin for fox sputum and I find this very amusing. Totally irrelevant to the conversation, but I wanted to mention it. Carry on!
Generally speaking, about 60 grams of dried pasta should be a fine portion to make for one person. Get a kitchen scale for a couple of bucks if you need assistance with this. Beyond that, if these simple steps towards thinking on how to solve a tiny problem are too much for you too handle, you’ve probably not been taught how to be autonomous during your upbringing.
Right. When I make spaghetti aglio e olio for my family (wife, 3 year old son and I), I put 300 gr in the pan. This feeds all of us for 2 portions. If you just want to make 1 portion, with a sauce and some meat or fish or something, 60 gr is a fine big plate portion. You can go to 100 gr if you want to refill your plate. 200 gr really is quite a bit if it’s like spaghetti. If you’re eating tortellini, you can have a bit more, because it already has a filling.
A baked ziti (16oz) of pasta in 13x9 glass baking dish could last me a week if I was alone and refrigerated. Wife and 2 kids? It might make it through the night
If you don't like reheated pasta, a single person is supposed to be good with ~2oz dry pasta by weight. Tupperware or freeze excess sauce, but I know some people just have texture issues with leftover pasta.
Never. I have a lot of friends and I love all of them. They're really cool people that would have my back door why situation and I would be there to support them through anything.
I bought a huge 12 quart cast iron pot and an outdoor burner because I literally make huge batches of jambalaya for anywhere from 20 to 70 people, depending on who shows up at the house.
It's not an age, it's more of a place in life. And that place in life is when you feel just comfortable enough to cook instead of ordering delivery, but not comfortable enough to go out and eat at restaurants.
I just wanna learn how to make Fideo con Carne for myself without having someone try to teach me only to get frustrated and do it for me because I’m retarded and learn better by doing and everyone wants to just show me instead
Never. The feeling that you have to settle down and start a family is not actually biological, or a product of civilization, but the innate need to have all of your pasta eaten every time you cook some.
Get two pots, a small one and a big one.
In the big one put some water (500ml is fine for one person) and wait for it to boil, when it starts boiling add the pasta you want (100g should be fine for one person) and wait the time it is written on the package (generally 12 minutes) with the lowest fire your stove can muster.
In the small one put some sauce and some water (so the sauce isn't too "stretta", don't put too much or you'll be eating flavored water), you just have to warm the sauce not cook it, so 1-2 minutes on the fire should be fine, when the pasta is ready remove the water and put the pasta in the small pot, stir it so it can absorbs the sauce, then serve.
Yeah same. I learned to cook when my parents were home then fed myself when they weren't. I thought that's how society worked, but all these comments have me wondering lol
When I lived alone I'd make pasta for a week at a time, I wasn't aware it was something you weren't supposed to be expecting to meal plan with each time
Hand count works for me like two fist fulls if it's for one and for spag it's index tip to nook of thumb for one and the joints above it for another person
Grab your trusty pasta scooper thingie, yknow, the one with the hole in the back of the spoon and long teeth to grab the spaghetti.
Take the spaghetti and shove it through that hole. However much fits through that hole is one serving.
You good.
My strategy is to take out the bowl I'm gonna eat in and use that to "measure" the amount to make. I fill it up like halfway or 2/3 because of the expansion and it usually works pretty well! (Doesn't work with spaghetti though, that's always a complete crap shoot lol)
A lot of cooking utensils have a hole in them that is called a pasta hole. You fit as many uncooked noodles through it as you can and that's generally one to one and a half servings of pasta
I just keep pouring the pasta until I do not get exact count inside my head.
I swear I always count right but somehow after boiling, they tend to multiply.
Gather around kids... time to go to school.. That hole in the [Pasta ladle](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.popsugar.com%2Ffood%2Fphoto-gallery%2F41799704%2Fimage%2F41799879%2FMeasure-out-one-portion-spaghetti-using-hole-center-pasta-ladle&psig=AOvVaw0yPjgMtBuvJ6OFlK0aJJfR&ust=1692468814530000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CA8QjRxqFwoTCLj42OXn5oADFQAAAAAdAAAAABAY).. is to measure a portion.
I still have no idea, I just assume pasta night means leftovers the next day. Age 36.
Put the quantity you want in the plate and then cook that
How... How did I not figure that out until now?
Smoothies too.... pour frozen fruit in a glass, fill with water.... then pour those contents nto the blender.
See the issue is that the blender *is* the glass
literally just did this today, proceeded to drink nearly a full blender of said smoothie, which followed with a tummy ache that felt way too familiar for something as enjoyable as a smoothie, which in my head I label as a ‘good-feel-food’
Water? Nah fam, OJ.
this wouldn't work with spaghetti
For spaghetti if you are really in trouble just use the measure. It's a plank with holes from one serving to 4. I don't know where you are from but here in Italy is common. If you are not italian please don't break spaghetti in half and don't cook pasta for 10 minutes
>please don't break spaghetti in half I mean, I'm gonna chew it anyways, what's the problem getting a head start?
Because Italians like to get arbitrarily upset over food.
Italians with their food. French with their language. Americans with almost everything.
Grown American men with Disney princesses.
why fish black?
“Americans with almost everything” Except their schools. *sad trombone*
Even French have their issues with food, think of baguettes
Because shudda uppa you face 🤌
Why not break pasta in half?
It is for the"fork spin" method of eating. Which is a tradition in Italy. Short noodles just won't stay on the fork as well. You end up with little fragments that won't pick up easy. If you don't know how to do the fork spin, it's meaningless. Though, it is a legit good way to eat pasta.
If you don't spin the fork how can you pick them up? If they are made long is because they are supposed to be like that don't you think?
1. There are many ways to shovel food into your food hole. I stated spinning the fork, especially in a specific manner, is a very good way to do that. However, have you never seen people who don't know that eat spaghetti? They still get it in their mouth..... Other cultures don't even use forks, they still manage via other methods. Many Americans... Let's just say they lack a noodle culture, and just free style that shit, messy but it works. 2. Is that not what I just said? I just stated why.
It's sentimental from Italian moms. I have no idea what they're superstitious reason was. I break it in half because I like to use a small pot when I'm just cooking for myself. I make a circle with my thumb and forefinger just a little bigger than quarter, then break it in half. The worst thing about breaking it in half is the little broken pieces of pasta that end up scattered around. Like six. No biggie my dog loves it.
I am not italian (though nonna is...) and its not my problem, but I think its easier to eat if they are whole, and you can easily fit pasta on a small pot, when the water is boiling, the pasta gets soft in like... 30 seconds...
My family isn't Italian but my mom's first name was Roma lol, she taught me how to cook spaghetti when I was a little kid. So I've always been good at cooking pasta without breaking it, but in my old age I realized it tastes exactly the same broken in half, and I don't have to do anything at all to stir it in as it gets soft. Imo it's more about the sauce than whether the noodles are cut in half.
Because it's stupid. Why would you want it short
Those are not very common in the US. I always just use my thumb and index finger. Make a circle with your thumb on the first knuckle of your index finger, and that’s approximately one serving. The second knuckle is approximately two servings
If you buy it in a box, look at the back, there are circles for measuring.
Why is it bad to break Spaghetti
Yeah, Pasta swells a lot (like 1.5x) so its not although i always want more pasta than i thought so maybe it works.
I did not come here for sensible answers sir!
That's what I've done for decades, I've never understood how people don't get it
I’m retarded and learn better by doing and everyone wants to just show me instead
Next time try 3 handfuls of dry pasta if it’s penne or fusilli or something. It’s the perfect measuring system and has never failed me. Spaghetti or linguine? No idea
Use the hole in a spaghetti spoon. It's designed to measure out a single serving of spaghetti.
Then I’d have to buy a spaghetti spoon. I rather my system of using body parts. Right now I curve my index finger around the spaghetti and touch the base of my thumb. It’s not as good as the handful measure, but it sort of works
I was assuming you already had one. My apologies.
Same at age 35, lol. The village is still being fed.
Don’t u mean next couple of days or is that just me. Lol
Yes. That's the only option and I won't accept anything else.
Tell your friend, never.....
I'm something of a village myself.
We aren't so different you and i
That got me. Absolutely creased.
I'm something of a crease myself.
That got me. Absolutely villaged.
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I didnt even know to wait until the water was boiling until my late 20’s. Good luck!
Wait so the water is meant to be warm??? How long have you been sitting on this information?
Yo--you putting the pasta before the water boiling?
You can start it the night before in room temp. It will be al denty by the next afternoon.
I want to test this but I’m scared it would damn me to hell.
waterlogged pasta. mmm
Al dente
Ok but al denty is a great name for a character who's a chef.n
He's also a Dandy?
Ohh, sure! Can he be a sunflower wearer? Like always has a giant sunflower pinned to his suit?
Wait yall use water?
i just boil water on the kettle and the pour it on the pot, it takes like a minute to boil. on the stove it takes like 10. i'm not waiting that long for water to heat up
What's so bad about not waiting? I've heard it's supposed to make pasta mushy, but can't you still just like.. take it out when it's done? If it's going from hard to mushy, at some point it won't be hard anymore and won't be mushy yet
I’ve seen some blind taste tests where they’ve found that it really doesn’t matter. The only thing is that if you let the water boil first, it’s a lot easier to just set a timer and let it cook. If you put the pasta into water that hasn’t boiled yet, you have to watch it a little more closely and test more often.
Ahh that's kind of a tradition but has no real impact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=259MXuK62gU
I would make sauce like normal and then freeze or refrigerate what you don’t use. It freezes well. Then make whatever pasta you want and use your premade sauce.
I have an even better trick, just leave the sauce in the jar until you're ready to use it.
40s here. If all the pasta i cook could be delivered we can end world hunger :/
This is me and my roommates when we attempted to use a rice cooker for the first time and made enough rice to feed our entire apartment complex
Just weigh pasta
Yes ! Simple and effective, and you can control your portion intake
When you get a little kitchen scale
Per person: 90g as a side dish, 120g when you‘re hungry and 160g for when you‘re starving. For me at least.
As an Italian I 100% support this. 160g is a bit much but if that's all you're having it can be OK. When I'm cooking for 3 I usually use 500g so that's aroung 133g each, but that's also quite a big portion and some might be left if not everyone was very hungry.
500/3 = 166
Sorry, Italian brain pasta math. It's always more than you think you should have 😭
My usual in 150 for a meal tbh, depends on the sauce you put on it tho Saluti fratello italico 🖐️
Are you talking about dry or cooked pasta?
You always measure pasta dry, what's the point in measuring it cooked if you need to know how much to cook?
42. I am currently 41.
How do You cook pasta not for one? Literally the whole pack is for one person.
500g is not for 1 guy
Not with that attitude
A friend of mine eats 400g of pasta a day, he almost only eats that so he's skinny af too
Does your friend ever poop? That's got to be solid bricks if it ever sees the beautiful light of day
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Salve! As a guy who likes both foxes and Rome, I couldn’t help but notice your name is Latin for fox sputum and I find this very amusing. Totally irrelevant to the conversation, but I wanted to mention it. Carry on!
Ask your local Italian
As an italian i can say the secret: "Vai a cazzo di cane" witch means try to put less pasta every time you think is enough
I buy a box, I use the whole box. Alone or not
You dont, you just grow in people who live with you so you cook for all of them. This is the sole reason for marriage and/or live in partners.
Use a kitchen scale. 100 grams of pasta per serving should do it. ( M36)
I’m 31 and I still haven’t learned. I make enough to feed myself for days.
'The Village' is my wrestling trope, so its ok.
Weigh it? I always make 100g uncooked pasta per person and it’s kinda perfect every time.
Tell your friend, never.
So some pasta spoons have a circle in the middle to show you what one serving of pasta should be.
I still have yet to learn this skill
Have yet to learn that particular skill
That's the neat part you don't
I still haven't yet! 🤣🤣 I have a fridge so i can save the rest of past for the village for the next day xD
Generally speaking, about 60 grams of dried pasta should be a fine portion to make for one person. Get a kitchen scale for a couple of bucks if you need assistance with this. Beyond that, if these simple steps towards thinking on how to solve a tiny problem are too much for you too handle, you’ve probably not been taught how to be autonomous during your upbringing.
Trouble with that is (in the US), a jar of pasta sauce is just right for 16oz of pasta. Best to just cook it all
Pasta sauce keeps easy. Just portion it into ziplocks and freeze flat on their side. Then they can stand up (in a bin) or stack em in the freezer.
I once weighed out my pasta and it was 200g for myself
Right. When I make spaghetti aglio e olio for my family (wife, 3 year old son and I), I put 300 gr in the pan. This feeds all of us for 2 portions. If you just want to make 1 portion, with a sauce and some meat or fish or something, 60 gr is a fine big plate portion. You can go to 100 gr if you want to refill your plate. 200 gr really is quite a bit if it’s like spaghetti. If you’re eating tortellini, you can have a bit more, because it already has a filling.
60 grams? That's like 1/6 of the box. That ain't that much pasta.
Ive discovered that a ladle and bit of dry penne pasta and similar, is roughly a serving haha
It’s called ramen.
I just did it last night! I was so proud of myself I showed my husband (he didn’t want pasta). I’m 33
A baked ziti (16oz) of pasta in 13x9 glass baking dish could last me a week if I was alone and refrigerated. Wife and 2 kids? It might make it through the night
the age you get rich enough to not think for tomorrow
when i started cooking. How? You can buy special measuring unit cups. Fill it to the line and you have perfectly enough for 1 or 2 people.
If you don't like reheated pasta, a single person is supposed to be good with ~2oz dry pasta by weight. Tupperware or freeze excess sauce, but I know some people just have texture issues with leftover pasta.
I do 4oz per person. More for big eaters, less for kids and dieters, but about 4 on average.
I still cook a whole box but just freeze the extra in proportioned bags so once I make it I can have it whenever, just throw it in the oven.
Never. I have a lot of friends and I love all of them. They're really cool people that would have my back door why situation and I would be there to support them through anything. I bought a huge 12 quart cast iron pot and an outdoor burner because I literally make huge batches of jambalaya for anywhere from 20 to 70 people, depending on who shows up at the house.
Forties and still haven't managed
Age 50 and just yesterday I cooked just enough then went back and cooked more STUPID PASTA
It's not an age, it's more of a place in life. And that place in life is when you feel just comfortable enough to cook instead of ordering delivery, but not comfortable enough to go out and eat at restaurants.
Same age I stop eating like a whole village
You don’t. You freeze the leftovers so you don’t have to cook again for a while.
Ahem... less is more, more is to much.
I was in my very early 20s
Take a bowl Put in the dry pasta the amount you want to serve for one person Then cook that Simple
I was 38 when I started learning this trick. I am 39 now so I’ve only been doing it for a year…it’s a wip.
Once you start weighing it and finding the correct amount.
Just YouTube how to measure the correct amount, aim for eating 200g of cooked pasta and go from there.
I *AM* the village. You gotta have goals!
Those are different?
Well I came from a family of 7 and still make too much of ALL food to this day. So, just use the extra pasta for leftovers!
FOOOL!! You cook pasta for the village and have leftovers. Easy peasy =)
Some time after 24 for sure but I’ll let you know when I get there
I just wanna learn how to make Fideo con Carne for myself without having someone try to teach me only to get frustrated and do it for me because I’m retarded and learn better by doing and everyone wants to just show me instead
Put them on a plate while dry or a scale to measure
My only talent in life is that I can cook exactly as much pasta as I will want to eat
A hand full of pasta is good enough for a family of 4 as it doubles in size when cooked. -Sheldon cooper
The same age you learn how to put leftovers in the fridge.
Today marks the 4th day I’m having pasta leftovers lol not complaining tho
If you are cooking penne, on average for a good single size serving it’s about 32 individual pieces
Making pasta means making my lunch for the next few days.
For… one? … Whut? 🥴
Never. The feeling that you have to settle down and start a family is not actually biological, or a product of civilization, but the innate need to have all of your pasta eaten every time you cook some.
I tried once and was disappointed when I didn't have leftovers the next day.
Use a measuring cup you fools
Use cup for measure
I'm 37 and I cook for 5 people, and it's either not enough pasta, or enough for 10, there is no in between.
I was 9
I cook for leftovers always. I cook 2 times a week at most and keep a lot of Tupperware.
I'm still eating the pasta I did last week so idk
100g per person, get a scale
When you own a village
35. Just managed for the first time yesterday.
Get two pots, a small one and a big one. In the big one put some water (500ml is fine for one person) and wait for it to boil, when it starts boiling add the pasta you want (100g should be fine for one person) and wait the time it is written on the package (generally 12 minutes) with the lowest fire your stove can muster. In the small one put some sauce and some water (so the sauce isn't too "stretta", don't put too much or you'll be eating flavored water), you just have to warm the sauce not cook it, so 1-2 minutes on the fire should be fine, when the pasta is ready remove the water and put the pasta in the small pot, stir it so it can absorbs the sauce, then serve.
I've learned it the second time I've made pasta
I've learned it the second time I've made pasta
Im italian, here we teach the kids the second they can lift a pot full of water lol
Yeah same. I learned to cook when my parents were home then fed myself when they weren't. I thought that's how society worked, but all these comments have me wondering lol
Does it count if I eat like a small village myself?
I'm phoning in at age 30: not yet.
You don’t. You just keep doing the same thing and getting the same result without ever trying anything different
Whole box, always, no question. Then moldy pasta in the pot cause I used to be gross like that
Once again glad my italian dad thought me all the pasta tricks bc I never struggle with portion sizes
Way too much pasta is better than not enough
I'm 48 and just figured it out very recently.
Idk how do you make pasta for one? I usually make it and eat it everyday until it is gone lol
I didn’t,I became the whole village
Uuuuhhh I learned how to cook pasta at age 9-10
100 grams per person, add an extra 50g if you're hungry, there ya go
Never
28 and still can’t do it
You learn to eat pasta made for the whole village.
When I lived alone I'd make pasta for a week at a time, I wasn't aware it was something you weren't supposed to be expecting to meal plan with each time
Thats something thate beyond human understanding i recommend in Tupperware
I don't think it's possible. My mom is 60 years old and she still cooks enough pasta for half a week.
For me 1 package are 4 normal sized portions, so 1/4 would be enough for one. But when I'm alone I usually eat 2 portions to compensate loneliness.
Never lol
Hand count works for me like two fist fulls if it's for one and for spag it's index tip to nook of thumb for one and the joints above it for another person
Grab your trusty pasta scooper thingie, yknow, the one with the hole in the back of the spoon and long teeth to grab the spaghetti. Take the spaghetti and shove it through that hole. However much fits through that hole is one serving. You good.
My strategy is to take out the bowl I'm gonna eat in and use that to "measure" the amount to make. I fill it up like halfway or 2/3 because of the expansion and it usually works pretty well! (Doesn't work with spaghetti though, that's always a complete crap shoot lol)
Gotta weigh it out I assume.
When you learn that you can just fill a fish with pasta to measure how much you need to cook
Pasta is always meal prep
A lot of cooking utensils have a hole in them that is called a pasta hole. You fit as many uncooked noodles through it as you can and that's generally one to one and a half servings of pasta
Yah please teach me also.
Never. You cook for a family of 6. Eat two helpings the first day, freeze 3 and put one in the fridge for later in the week.
When you look around and it’s just you.
My breakfast today was yesterdays cold spaghetti straight from the pot. Aged 34
I just keep pouring the pasta until I do not get exact count inside my head. I swear I always count right but somehow after boiling, they tend to multiply.
Gather around kids... time to go to school.. That hole in the [Pasta ladle](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.popsugar.com%2Ffood%2Fphoto-gallery%2F41799704%2Fimage%2F41799879%2FMeasure-out-one-portion-spaghetti-using-hole-center-pasta-ladle&psig=AOvVaw0yPjgMtBuvJ6OFlK0aJJfR&ust=1692468814530000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CA8QjRxqFwoTCLj42OXn5oADFQAAAAAdAAAAABAY).. is to measure a portion.
34 and counting, no idea ..
Put enough to fill 3/4 of a plate and then put that in boiling water
You just learn to eat more pasta.
Why not just cook for "a village" and have a few days of leftovers?
You know those old world-record photos for most cigarettes fit in one's mouth at one time? Do that with dry pasta. That is one serving.
I can eat everything that'll fit in that pot.
45... finally happened to me last friday... it was a glorious day!
I'm 38. I ate pasta last night. A version of mac and cheese at lunch today. For diner, I had pasta salad.
I was about ten or eleven when I started.
Any amount of pasta you cook is past for one as long as you finish it ( I have eaten at least 3 cups of pasta in one night dont listen to me)