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.
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.
S friend of mine did that with rice some years ago. Instead of cooking like one cup he filled the pot about halfway. Needless to say, that we got free rice that day.
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.
Because honestly left over spaghetti is almost better than fresh. 👍
left over spaghetti
!!!
But yeah, there’s that whole thing with blood sugar and leftover pasta, I dunno, I’m not a scientist and I have a bad memory, but it’s basically healthier on day two.
Side note: Only works with average size hands, I can fit more than a pound of dry spaghetti between thumb and index
Finally I’ve found someone whose hands match my stomach!
Pro tip: weigh your pasta and you’ll never make too much again.
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.
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.
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.
Italian here. That’s not a bug; that’s a feature.
I always weigh my pasta. A really large serving of pasta is ~4oz.
So a half batch
I usually do that with butter beans.
How can you have too much pasta?
The sequel to this meme would be the wizard sitting the other way
“And I ate it all in one serving”
Do a #noScrapLeftBehind post on !zerowaste@slrpnk.net !
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
Never happened to me
