4 servings: 500 g
1 serving: 500 g
3 servings: 500 g
I always cook the whole package. I can eat leftovers later or make some new dish out of it the next day.
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You see that hole? That's enough for 1 serving.
Looks over at my teens
Yeah, sure. For me maybe.
If I cook a box I'll still have about a couple cups left over. If I cook half a box they'll all be bitching that they're still hungry in 15 minutes, and they'll consume another entire box.
I cook it restaurant style I don't even stop the water from boiling.
Honestly, it's one of the reasons I don't cook that much spaghetti the chunkier pasta shaped work better as leftovers.
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YO WHAT? How have I never known this til now?
I still just go for 100g/person. Altough the hole trick is nice if your out and about and done have a scale
If you are out and have your travel spaghetti scooper with you
Who doesn't make travel spaghetti with their portable pot of boiling water?
They do make portable mini stoves tho
It's also an emergency hairbrush. Slam it in a drawer with the head sticking out and boom, overnight jewelry holder. Or hold it up in front of your face and you can watch people without them knowing. It's the all-accessory!
Srsly? You have changed my life!!!
Instructions unclear, my spaghetto is stuck in the spoon hole...
between 70-500g per person. Hope it helps.
125 grams of dried pasta per person, as a main course usually works fine for me.
What's that? Dump the whole box in?
“No, wai-“
fwish
“Too late!”
I use 160g spaghetti with an entire 14oz jar of sauce, personally.
I assume that's basically plain pasta? Or are we talking American portions?
Because in most of the world it's 70-90g. If you're going with heavy dishes it's sometimes down into 50-60g.
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1 person: what fits in the hole when you place your index finger against the first joint in your thumb. 2 person, second joint. three person thumb tip. Smaller rations, loose fit, larger rations tighter fit. Try a few times to adjust for your hand size. It's just a step above eyeballing, but shockingly effective.
Edit: Not that hole, I see you coming. And not coming that way. Jeez, the infantilism!
Don't blame us! You're the one talking dirty!
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Instead of measuring out your pasta, have you considered switching to Linux?
What's Linux?
What he meant was GNU/Spaghetti
Jokes aside, it's an operating system alternative to Windows. The Steam Deck gaming handheld runs Linux. It's a free and open software.
I feel like a fatass because I never need to measure spaghetti. One box is two servings.
I keep seeing variations of this theme. My mom always does the opposite. Like 12 people are coming over for thanksgiving or Christmas and she makes one little bag of noodles.
Cook it all. Save what you don't eat in a sealed container in the refrigerator. Cooked noodles are so useful. Fry them with chili paste, yum yum! Make peanut sauce and eat them cold. Even just tossed with sesame oil and salt they are pretty good.
This. Also toss it evenly with some olive oil before you put it in the fridge. Will delay the concrete phase by a lot
Be careful with this.
Turned pasta is really dangerous and hard to notice as it doesn't have an awful smell or look like other foods when bacteria settles.
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1g per 1kg of your weight. So for someone who weighs 100kg you use 100g of pasta.
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125g per person if you only eat that, 80 to 100 if you eat something else too
Good brands you can usually find outside of italy with not outrageous prices are Rummo and Garofalo, less good but still okay, and at a generally lower price, you can usually find Voiello or De Cecco
Barilla is the most common, but outside of their spaghetti I'm not a big fan
There are a bunch of others, but these tend to be easier to find
That's all, thank you for coming to my TED talk
Get some containers and keep leftovers. Cooking more than you will eat in one sitting saves your future self some work.
If you are a guy then its an easy measurement. Make an o with your finger and thumb the girth of your erect dick. That's your dick width of pasta serving. No more. No less!
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I have the amounts and cooking time written under the lid of each food item so that I don't need to ever think how much I need.
You just don’t know how much to eat.
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