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The hole on the back of the spaghetti lifter tool is perfect for measuring a single serving.
wtf is a “spaghetti lifter”?
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
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.
I usually do that with butter beans.
I always weigh my pasta. A really large serving of pasta is ~4oz.
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.
No matter how much pasta you make, you’re obligated to eat it in a single sitting.
This is the way.
This is the way I die.I have a couple pastas that make good leftovers, but if I’m not planning on them I’ll gorge myself on the entire four person meal of pasta
Not like this…slurp…not like this…
Fun fact, Switch was supposed to be two different genders in the matrix and in the real world.
So a half batch
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!
Anyone else have a weird thing where pasta does not make them feel full?
I could probably eat 3 times as much pasta by weight as I could, let’s say, rice. And I would only have to stop because I physically feel that there is no more room in my stomach. It’s like my brain does not register pasta as food and so I don’t mentally feel full or get any less hungry.
And it’s just with pasta! Not bread, not rice, not pizza, not lasagna, nada. It is very weird and I never heard of anyone with the same issue.
Ps, because of this, I just cannot make too much pasta, no such thing.
Yes, I can eat a seemingly infinite amount of pasta. Just pasta.
I feel less alone now
I have the opposite issue. Pasta makes me feel bloated.
I’ve notice that for a few years now. I believe the quality has been worst and worst. I never buy the cheapest brands, I look for the thickest looking ones. I prefer egg pasta and stay far away for the 3-minutes ones.
You might want to try whole grain pasta.
I tried and saw a small difference but the big change was only taste.
That’s weird.
I eat my fair share of fiber already. Adding more of them doesn’t help me much to feel full if my carbs are still of bad quality.
I’m similar but will all carbs - only proteins make me feel full, unless there’s meat involved I generally don’t consider it a meal. Carbs and veggies do not make me full at all and I never crave them, they’re only there to give me variety and make me feel civilized while I consume meat. I never really crave sugar either.
P.S. I’m not one of those “meat-only diet” whackjobs and I have nothing against vegetarians or vegans or animals but this has just been my experience entirely.
That’s the weird thing. It’s not about the nutrient type because other types of carbs do make me feel full. It’s just specifically pasta. I don’t know why. I could easily eat a bowl of rice and feel full but I could eat three bowls of pasta and just know that I’m full but not feel it.
I’ve got a second stomach for ice cream, maybe yours is for pasta
But it’s not that I love pasta in a special way, it’s okay-ish
Lucky. For me it’s either spend more money to eat beef or pork with every meal or just cope with always feeling low-key hungry.
Italian here. That’s not a bug; that’s a feature.
That’s ok – you just don’t need to cook for a nearest year or so if your family is of size of 2.
How do I make my family of size 2?
I don’t know, catch a woman, close her in the closet. Something like that. No idea, how would I know?
Slip a bowl of pasta through the closet door every day.
Make spaghetti so you can feed it in through the keyhole.
Take a lesson from Anakin
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.
The sequel to this meme would be the wizard sitting the other way
“And I ate it all in one serving”
