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Default Why do some people break spaghetti before cooking it?

On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 20:25:34 -0000, "Ophelia"
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> "Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> > On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 14:29:58 -0500, "Gus" >
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> >>IIRC, my mom did make it in a big pot.

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> > WTF is a "big" pot? Any pot less than 6 quarts is too small a
> > capacity to properly cook a pound of any shape pasta... to cook a
> > pound of pasta an 8 quart pot works best, holds enough water and won't
> > boil over. To me an 8 quart pot is a small/medium pot.

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> Awww don't scare him off) So far as I know he is cooking for himself


Gus is doing fine here.

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