• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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    I break the spaghetti to fit in my pot. It does not change the taste one bit and makes it easier to eat. There are no windows with a direct line of sight to my kitchen.

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      So, just to be clear, you do you, but spaghetti will soften and fit in the pot fine after about 3.5 seconds. Just put it in and push it down with your big spaghetti spork.

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        The responses to this comment led me to discover that some people don’t wait for the water to boil before putting the pasta in.

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          I put the pasta in the pot BEFORE I add the boiling water, that I boiled in the electric water heater, and I split the pasta to put them in the pot cause it’s easier.

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            …just to make sure I understand…

            You boil water in an electric kettle or similar, then break your spaghetti and drop it into an empty pot before pouring the now just-short-of-boiling water on top of it and bringing it back up to a boil?

            And you think this is an easier process than just boiling water in the pot then dropping the spaghetti in?

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        This is the correct answer. You hold the spaghetti in the middle with both hands. Turn both clockwise and counter clockwise and drop them in the boiling water.

        Then push them down at the side of the pot.

        Everything else is wrong and you should get sniped.

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        Heh we did that until we moved to our current house, which has a gas Viking range. It’s incredibly powerful. The heat coming off the burner around the pot burned the spaghetti that was hanging over the side before the water started to boil.

        So, we now break the spaghetti on the rare occasion we make it.

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          …you put spaghetti in the cold water before it’s boiling? What?

          Boil the water first, then put the pasta in.

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          Yes, what they said. Pasta is supposed to go in fully boiling water, then you can turn down just a bit after adding it if the water’s bubbling over.

          And I know it sounds counter-intuitive and breaking thermodynamics…but I swear dropping a pinch of salt in nearly boiling water always puts it over the boiling line. I do not know why but it does.

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            It’s not to do with breaking thermodynamics. The grains of salt simply act like little so-called “nucleation points” where the bubbles can form easier. That’s why you’ll often see the water suddenly boiling and bubbling violently just as you add salt.

            The water was “superheated” above the boiling point, but didn’t have imperfections in the pot which allowed the bubbles to form easily.

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              I figured it was something like that, and not really defying physics. People have told me I must be imagining it, though, because “no, salt raises the boiling point, dumbass.”

              However I don’t think it’s ever been super pure water, I think it just adds more impurities, so the bubbles start forming.

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          If a gas burner is heating around the pot, you are using the wrong sized burner: it means the heat is not going into the pot, but in the air around it. Either move the pot to a smaller burner, select a lower heat setting or get a heat distributor (no idea what you really call it, it a metal plate larger than your pot that distribute the flame heat all around)

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                Eh, or I can just break the spaghetti in half. What’s the problem? We usually make ravioli anyway.

                Never met so many people so upset about spaghetti. Guess there’s something for everyone.

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                  The snipers will get you! (Honestly, my stance was general, not only about spaghetti, you are heating up the kitchen instead of your pot)

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          As others have stated… The problem isn’t the burner, it’s that you tried to out spaghetti in… cold water?

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    Oh good for a second I was worried my Sicilian grandmother was gonna be the triggerman, but that’s just some guy from the boot.