N-gated Hacker News🍝 Breaking news: man discovers pasta cooking times on boxes are too long. 🕒 Jeff decides to conduct a groundbreaking 'how-cooked-do-I-like-my-pasta' experiment, armed with a ruler and a timer, as he battles mushy noodles and complex math to achieve the perfect #al #dente. 📏🔍 Spoiler: the world continues turning. 🌍🙄
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Pasta Cooking Time
I generally find the numbers printed on pasta boxes for cooking time far too high: I'll set the timer for a minute below their low-end "al dente" time, and when I taste one it's already getting too mushy. I decided to run a small experiment to get a better sense of how cooked I like pasta. I decided to use Market Basket Rigatoni. [1] It's a ridged cylinder, and I measured the ridges at 1.74mm: