Who breaks their spaghetti/linguine prior to cooking it. My girlfriend and I bicker about this all the time. She likes me to break it and cook it so it's not messy and so she doesn't have to cut it. I don't like to break it. Any reasons as to why I should or shouldn't break it? What do you do with your pasta? Probably a stupid thread but just making discussion. Thanks!

 

it hurts the spaghetti.

 

Stupid thread is stupid...



I break it so it all cooks evenly.

 

I break it so my children don't have stripes of sauce from neck to pate, just chin to eyes.

 

it hurts the spaghetti. don't do it. it's totally inhumane. haven't you heard the cries coming through the steam?!



I break it so it cooks evenly. I don't want 1/4 of the noodles sticking out of the water, while the other 3/4 is nearly fully cooked.



Why wouldn't you break it?

 

Thank you!

 

this large problem can be cured by STIRRING the noodles.

 

Definitely break it for ease of cooking and eating. The only one I leave whole is cappelini, because it cooks so damn fast and it's so thin, you can easily wrap whole strands around your fork without slapping yourself in the face with red sauce.

 

Please look at the picture I posted above and explain to me how to stir the top end of those noodles into the water without breaking them.

 

when you put the noodles in the pot of boiling water the bottom of the noddles get soft in less than 15 seconds....... then stir/fold the noodles in the pot.