4 servings: 500 g
1 serving: 500 g
3 servings: 500 gI always cook the whole package. I can eat leftovers later or make some new dish out of it the next day.
Family of 5. We make 500 g, no leftovers.
with 500g you can eat leftovers for 3-4 days if you live alone
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.
the chunkier pasta shaped work better as leftovers
Same until I realized spaghetti works great for pasta salad.
I have 4 teenagers. I cook 2 boxes every time. There are no leftovers.
Then you figure out how many servings you need to make for everyone. The hole is an approximation and you need to figure out how many servings are needed for your family’s satiation needs.
Telling you it varies. If I make one serving per, they’ll end up eating three per. If I make three per, they’ll end up eating one.
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!
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Srsly? You have changed my life!!!
Instructions unclear, my spaghetto is stuck in the spoon hole…
back scratcher?
Desperation breeds innovation I guess.
It’s a holy back scratcher ;)
between 70-500g per person. Hope it helps.
So between a light snack and “I want people to think I’m pregnant.”
70-120g more normally, of dried pasta. that’s not a light snack, perhaps not a huge plate, but it’s sufficient if you also have something on the side.
Fresh pasta is different obviously.
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!
Not that hole, I see you coming.
How’s your eye a hole? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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!”
This is hilarious to me. We make 400g for 2 (normal sized) people.
We make 500g for 2 normal sized (lean) people and it’s nearly not enough
Yea we also used to do 500g, but over the years it has just (naturally?) gone down a bit.
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.
Not American portions, but for a dish that is centered around pasta. Usually with a light tomatoe sauce, aglio e olio or something like that. And I like to have a second helping, so that’s included.
If you’re going for a casserolle or something else with lots of Cheese, a thick and creamy sauce, or relevant amounts of meat and/or vegetables to go with it, you’ll need less than that.
I like to eat a small bowl with sauce, then make a truly deranged second small bowl – butter, olive oil, that trash-ass Parmesan or whatever blend is kicking around in the fridge, adobo, black pepper, chili flakes
Pasta 80g/person (women may prefer 70g), sauce about 100g/person
Women may prefer 🤣 Jesus Christ
? That’s just how it is, some people eat more, some eat less, women on average eat less.
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.
Pot is an effective limitator.
You don’t get the munchies?
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.
It goes straight into the fridge, been doing this for over 30 years with no problem. I don’t save half eaten pasta, just split it after it’s cooked.
1g per 1kg of your weight. So for someone who weighs 100kg you use 100g of pasta.
hold on i’m doing weed maths
alexa how much do i weigh
no in kilograms
dammit math is hard when you’re high
I once made spaghetti without water
I need to know more……
Put spaghetti in pot, heat the stove, put pot on the stove. Wait
Ok, i guess now i know!
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!
Bro, I can’t grab a broom stick without comparing its girth it to my dick. Now pasta too? Smdh
