"cybercat" > wrote in
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>
> "Steve Pope" > wrote in message
> ...
>> cybercat > wrote:
>>
>>>No, one should do whatever one wishes. I never make regular
>>>spaghetti any
>>>more, I make angelhair. And I might try *not* breaking it in half
>>>just because I have never *not* broken it in half.
>>
>> I have less experience with angelhair, just standard spaghetti
>> and vermicelli. But I suspect angelhair is easier to twirl,
>> regardless, since it tends to mass together into a lump anyway.
>>
>> However, with typical gauge spaghetti, it seems to me obvious
>> that for a given amount of spaghetti twirled onto a fork, there
>> are going to be twice as many loose ends flopping around if
>> it has been broken in half. I can't see how it could not be
>> sloppier.
>>
> My fork skills are excellent. It runs in my family. We yield them with
> a rapier-like swiftness and grace.
>
>

I dunno about you, but my forks look like forks, not knives. Easier to
eat the pasta that way.

Saerah