Breaking spaghetti before cooking can be very handy for when you are struggling with those long spaghetti strands every time.
It is often said that cutting or breaking spaghetti is a sin. We don’t take breaking spaghetti so hard because the important thing is: eat spaghetti the way you prefer!
Why break spaghetti before cooking?
Simple, because it’s easy and it saves you a lot of fiddling with the long strands while eating. It’s a handy trick that helps you enjoy eating your plate of pasta.
By breaking the spaghetti strands before cooking the pasta, you cut the spaghetti in half. As a result, the strands end up being half as long once they are on your plate. Kind of easy.
How do you break spaghetti?
It is best to break the spaghetti before cooking it. Here the spaghetti strands are still uncooked and therefore still stiff. Simply put, breaking is just easier when the spaghetti is stiff.
Take the right amount of spaghetti in your hands and grab the strands as close together as possible.
Stand with your hands over the pasta pan of boiling water and break the spaghetti in half. Make the breaking motion downward. This will make any small pieces of spaghetti fall immediately into the water.
Once you have broken the spaghetti in half, you can just throw it into the boiling water. All you have to do now is cook the spaghetti.
Breaking spaghetti for small children
Breaking spaghetti can be especially useful if you have a table full of small children who are lovingly eating their plates of pasta.
The half spaghetti strands make eating, especially for little pasta lovers, a little easier. That way that plate of pasta will be empty even faster!
Breaking spaghetti instead of cutting spaghetti
We all know: cutting spaghetti is not done! At least, if all the pasta connoisseurs are to be believed. Despite being Italian, we don’t take cutting spaghetti so hard. In our eyes, you should eat spaghetti as it suits you best. Especially when you’re at home.
Now if you have a number of dinner guests and still want to adhere to Italian etiquette, just break the spaghetti in half before cooking. That way the spaghetti will be half as short and you won’t have to cut your spaghetti once it’s on your plate. This avoids heavy discussions at the table, trust us….