But the problem is, how much pasta do you put in the boiling water? I have ended up using my kitchen scale to measure out about 3 oz or so of dry pasta per person before I cook it
I've served many great meals using this measure. The problem is I end up having a lot of bits of different pasta shapes that are left over to deal with
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
I just toss in handfuls until it seems about right.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link
I have never got this right and always end up cooking too much pasta through fear of not having enough. I will try the pasta spoon method tonight.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:18 (one year ago) link
Dan S, I thnk the hole in the spoon is for one serving uncooked...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:59 (one year ago) link
Conch is pronounced conk?! Only learned this last month thanks to an episode of naked and afraid
― just1n3, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
Knew that for a long time but often backslide.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
its Andy's guitar riff but without Sting's song attached no one would have heard it. so they both deserve the Puff Daddy money
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 02:36 (one year ago) link
Cook too much pasta, refrigerate excess, warm in a pan with butter for breakfast or lunch the next day
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 04:52 (one year ago) link
Not in the UK is isn't.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 06:36 (one year ago) link
Spaghetti thing, yeah you pass the still dried spaghetti strands through grouped to measure the serving. Remember reading this.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 06:58 (one year ago) link
Does that give the standard according to the packet measure of 75g? Because that's 0.6x too small for for spaghetti as a main course imo - I use 125g pp and I don't have a huge appetite. Maybe 75g works for a smaller pasta course or alongside buckets of salad and garlic bread.
― ledge, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 07:37 (one year ago) link
I realized yesterday that I had no idea how you decaffeinate coffee so I googled it.Turns out you just soak the beans before roasting them, usually with some chemical added. It was discovered after a shipment of coffee got wet with seawater. Life's easy.
For spaghetti I just remember a portion is approx. 100 grams, 125 if you're very hungry. That's easy to estimate from a 500g packet. Some even have the measurements for dummies.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 07:43 (one year ago) link
Turquoise comes from the French for Turkish.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 08:29 (one year ago) link
all this time i've been trying to squish the cooked spaghetti through that hole in the spoon
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 09:50 (one year ago) link
I love stuff like this. The prevalence of Arabic words in Spanish, for example, is a fascinating leftover from occupation.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, May 1, 2023
ok I get it, I don't have that kind of pasta spoon/fork with a hole in it. It sounds ingenious but it also sounds like it only works for spaghetti and similar shapes. If that's only kind of pasta you're serving, I guess that's fine.
I try not to have too many utensils in my kitchen. One of my main older learning experiences is ... my kitchen scale was inexpensive and has been useful in so many ways, in my case especially for baking sourdough bread, but also for weighing out dried pasta and other ingredients in so many recipes
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
Idk why I’ve only noticed this the last few years but I think there might be quite a few words where I put the emphasis on the wrong syllable? Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s just pronounced differently in the US compared to where I grew up (NZ).
Eg I very recently figured out that I might be saying massage and decor incorrectly: I say MASSage and DEcor.
This seems like a weird blind spot to not notice common words being pronounced very differently by everyone around you.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 07:53 (one year ago) link
Also, pasta serving sizes are a joke to me. A pound size bag of pasta is NOT 8 servings. Maybe I’m just a pig but it’s more like 4 servings max (and quite often only 3).
― just1n3, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 07:55 (one year ago) link
xp i think that is just non-NA english way of saying it, most (many?) americans will know what you are saying and get why you sound a bit different
― buzza, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 08:00 (one year ago) link
I was wondering if pasta serving sizes had changed a lot over the years and if the measuring hole on a traditional spoon was larger than i a diet conscious era. Or how long the spoon hole had been a feature. Just been listening to Maintenance Phase recently so am aware of that whole diet conscious era being relatively new as in several decades whereas pasta is a foodstuff with a much longer tradition.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 08:29 (one year ago) link
(xp) Exactly, though I've never heard "decor" pronounced any other way.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 09:09 (one year ago) link
day-CORE obv
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 09:39 (one year ago) link
just think about the way you pronounce “singapore” over a gin and tonic in the raffles
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 09:40 (one year ago) link
cardi-b is a rapper (from the crossword thread)
had heard the name before, obv, but figured on z-list celeb from one of those talent shows
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 11:17 (one year ago) link
lol, I learn many contemporary pop culture factoids at a shockingly old age thanks to the NYT crossword
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 11:20 (one year ago) link
Many words, massage being one of them, I stress the first syllable when used as a noun, and the second when used as a verb. Record, permit, progress.
― Alba, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 11:50 (one year ago) link
I was wondering if pasta serving sizes had changed a lot over the years and if the measuring hole on a traditional spoon was larger than i a diet conscious era. Or how long the spoon hole had been a feature.....― Stevo, Wednesday, May 3, 2023 3:29 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Welp, I just learned what the hole in the spoon is for.
― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 19:37 (one year ago) link
i now know what it's not for, and have some personal reflection to embark on and some apologizing to do to people whose dinners I've attended
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
xpost to Alba:
Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are nouns when you stress the first syllable but verbs when you stress the second."Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) April 27, 2023
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Thursday, 4 May 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
oh that is cool
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 4 May 2023 00:58 (one year ago) link
xxp lol
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 4 May 2023 01:05 (one year ago) link
That reminds me of a little saying that the late great Martin Skidmore was fond of, for remembering when to use "s" and when to use "c" in certain words... He suggested one could "devise a device" for remembering it...
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 4 May 2023 08:47 (one year ago) link
Sooo wait.
Commonwealth differences in spelling with the US has been done to death, but I gotta ask. Does that mean Martin would've said you'd have to have a license to licence?
― pplains, Thursday, 4 May 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
I seriously thought the c for s thing was just a difference in spelling between the two regions, not that one was used for the verb and one was used for the noun.
― pplains, Thursday, 4 May 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
Lol this mnemonic may have literally only worked for that pair of words
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
you need advice? i can advise.
― ledge, Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
The mnemonic I’ve heard for this is “you can c a noun but you can’t c a verb”Kind of nonsense because you can see a verb but still
― michel goindry (wins), Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
Practise/practice is another one
in theory it's the same for uk licenc/se but US usage has muddied the waters (and the fact that they're pronounced the same).
― ledge, Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
C-MurderS-Murder
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:14 (one year ago) link
Buddy Guy's Stone Crazy! is one of my favorite albums. Today I learned that a whole second album, Junior Wells' Pleading the Blues, was recorded at the same session, just adding Junior Wells on vocals and harmonica.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
I was just told that Cinco de Mayo is not celebrated in Mexico itself, but only in the US.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
Although maybe the guy meant Mexico Mexico, el DF, Mexico City itself.
Hmm, seems to be true.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
I think it commemorates a relatively minor victory in some battle for independence, and I've always assumed it was selected in the US for celebrating because of its calendar position - not much else going on in early May.
― nickn, Friday, 5 May 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
Cinco de Mayo = a "white people get drunker than usual and get in more fights and car accidents" holiday
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
- "So when is Mexico's Independence Day?"
- "El dieciséis de septiembre."
- "Hmmm. Did anything ever happen in 'marzo' or 'mayo'?"
― pplains, Friday, 5 May 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
Commemorates the Battle of Puebla when they beat the French and slowed up the Second French Intervention.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link
^this
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
Just talked to a poblana to get another data point and she confirmed that not even in Puebla is it celebrated.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link