|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Dec 14, 2023 5:55:10 GMT
We all come across incidents in our daily lives or read things that make us wonder how some people manage to walk around in the world. Usually seeing, hearing, or reading such things makes us want to say, "Can you believe this shit?!" to someone else.
Here is a whole thread to do just that.
I was inspired to create this thread by a recipe I just read in the NYTimes cooking section.
It's a rather simple recipe calling for twelve ounces of spaghetti, among other ingredients. The recipe sounded good, so I went down to reader comments to see their verdicts.
The last comment was by someone named Laura, who said:
Pasta is sold in 16 ounce boxes. Are cooks supposed to weigh the right amount of pasta for these recipes and discard the rest?
If that doesn't make you despair about humanity, know that two other readers marked her comment as helpful.
|
|
|
|
Post by bjd on Dec 14, 2023 7:30:24 GMT
Obviously there have been a lot of lobotomies that you didn't know about, Bixa.
|
|
|
|
Post by fumobici on Dec 14, 2023 16:58:15 GMT
It would have been better for the recipe to scale up all the ingredients by one-third, which would have made the pasta a nice even full package.
|
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Dec 14, 2023 18:11:19 GMT
You mean American portions?  |
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Dec 14, 2023 22:21:36 GMT
It would have been better for the recipe to scale up all the ingredients by one-third, which would have made the pasta a nice even full package. People who couldn't figure out how to get hold of 12 ounces of spaghetti from whatever size package shouldn't be cooking. Also, does anyone really weigh raw pasta? I think normal people just eyeball the amount needed.
|
|
|
|
Post by htmb on Dec 14, 2023 22:44:50 GMT
I often weigh pasta, just like I weigh a lot of foods on a scale when cooking, but I don’t think it’s a very common thing to do in the US.
|
|
|
|
Post by whatagain on Dec 14, 2023 23:04:37 GMT
I read a sper on how many people can not calculate a rebate f xx%.
They go to the cashier and just hope they have enough money.
|
|
|
|
Post by fumobici on Dec 15, 2023 4:55:02 GMT
It isn't the difficulty of eyeballing it, it's the leftover quarter torn open package you're left with (easier with DeCecco boxes!), which isn't easy to find a use for if you like using a lot of different types of dry pasta.
My mother used a triple beam balance like from chemistry lab for measuring weight in grams as called for in Euro cookbooks.
|
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Dec 15, 2023 5:16:56 GMT
You do realize that not all pasta comes in 16 oz. packages, right?
I must be some kind of pasta storage genius, as I have no problem with whatever pasta is left in the package. For one thing, I don't tear open the package since I am not a savage. For another thing, I have one of those tall canisters that I believe are meant for long pasta. I cut off the top of the bag & put it into the canister. At present I have a partially used bag of capellini in it along with a partially used bag of fettuccini. A partially used bag of spaghetti or similar would fit into the rest of the space. Were I to start using many more types of long pasta, I'd get another tall canister. I have a variety of different sized jars to store opened packages of other types of pasta, which here are mostly sold in 200 or 500 gram packages.
|
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Dec 15, 2023 5:48:33 GMT
I have at least 5 packages of various partially used pasta at all times. It is absolutely not a problem.
|
|
|
|
Post by patricklondon on Dec 16, 2023 14:18:30 GMT
It isn't the difficulty of eyeballing it, it's the leftover quarter torn open package you're left with (easier with DeCecco boxes!), which isn't easy to find a use for if you like using a lot of different types of dry pasta. Minestrone covers a multitude of sins. |
|
|
|
Post by lugg on Dec 16, 2023 20:42:54 GMT
Minestrone covers a multitude of sins.  |
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Dec 16, 2023 20:47:34 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 16, 2023 21:40:20 GMT
Very droll  I have a pasta basket in the kitchen drawer. Son and I like rigatoni, penne and fusilli but OH doesn't. We use linguini a lot and lasagne sheets. I have a tall jar for the linguini (OH prefers it to spaghetti). I very rarely use fresh pasta and have only made it from scratch once (why bother?) As for weighing pasta, I do occasionally as I tend to cook far too much...but then I love pasta so it doesnt matter really |
|
