There are times when I harbor doubts regarding fairly common advice. A perfect example has to do with cooking spaghetti. Plenty of people have told me that a good way to confirm your spaghetti is fully cooked is to fling a piece of it against the wall. If the noodle sticks, your spaghetti is done.
Really?
The first time somebody told me this, I thought to
myself, "Wait, I have just been told to throw food at the wall as a test
for proper cooking. How scientific can that be?" Frankly, the idea sounded
suspiciously like something one of my drinking buddies concocted at the end of
a three-day runner in East Helena, Montana. But, at the same time, I would
never refuse something as grand as being sanctioned to throw food.
Whether throwing spaghetti is an accurate
assessment for proper cooking or not matters little to me now. It has become a
ritual. Yesterday, I cooked some spaghetti for lunch. Did I fling some against
the wall to test it? Of course, I did. At the same time, I have discovered that
spaghetti will generally not stick if flung from all the way across the
kitchen, no matter how long you cook it. There is apparently some kind of
distance limit. Maybe some smart university researchers should look into that.
—Mitchell
Hegman
Better goggle it
ReplyDeleteI did that. Throwing spaghetti appears to be a myth. But it's still fun to do.
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