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revjpw
11th May 2005, 02:32 PM
I had a strange thought the other day while cooking spaghetti. Recently, I organized a retreat for confirmation students at an area camp. We were in charge of cooking our own meals. The Saturday dinner was spaghetti and there was this conversation between a couple of the otyher adults about how to cook spaghetti. The other day while I was cooking, I recalled this conversation and it reminded me of some of the conversations on this board.

Probably for every person you ask there will be a different procedure of cooking spaghetti. Some will break it while others will cook it whole. Some will add oil to the water while some will say that it doesn't keep the spaghetti from sticking or that the sauce will "fall off" of the pasta if it is cooked with oil. Some will insist that it must be rinsed in hot water and others will demand that it be rinsed in cold water. Some say that adding salt to the water will help it boil quicker while others insist that it takes longer for salt water to boil.

Sound to me like a bunch of Lutherans trying to cook spaghetti!:doh: ^_^

SPALATIN
11th May 2005, 03:33 PM
I had a strange thought the other day while cooking spaghetti. Recently, I organized a retreat for confirmation students at an area camp. We were in charge of cooking our own meals. The Saturday dinner was spaghetti and there was this conversation between a couple of the otyher adults about how to cook spaghetti. The other day while I was cooking, I recalled this conversation and it reminded me of some of the conversations on this board.

Probably for every person you ask there will be a different procedure of cooking spaghetti. Some will break it while others will cook it whole. Some will add oil to the water while some will say that it doesn't keep the spaghetti from sticking or that the sauce will "fall off" of the pasta if it is cooked with oil. Some will insist that it must be rinsed in hot water and others will demand that it be rinsed in cold water. Some say that adding salt to the water will help it boil quicker while others insist that it takes longer for salt water to boil.

Sound to me like a bunch of Lutherans trying to cook spaghetti!:doh: ^_^

Well hey I get my cooking directions from the Food Channel and the show Good Eats. The Host says that for good spaghetting one needs to . . .

So is the GT forum like hungarian ghoulash?

Jim47
11th May 2005, 03:41 PM
Sound to me like a bunch of Lutherans trying to cook spaghetti!:doh: ^_^


Thats a pretty fair comparison! ^_^

BigNorsk
12th May 2005, 09:19 AM
That the most don't know the reason they do it that way other than that's the way they were taught.

Marv

RedneckAnglican
12th May 2005, 02:58 PM
If it means anything I was eating Spagetti while reading this...

revjpw
12th May 2005, 05:12 PM
If it means anything I was eating Spagetti while reading this...

Did you cook it... and if so, how? ;)

RedneckAnglican
13th May 2005, 09:49 AM
just like Alton Brown (the guy on Good Eats)...

SPALATIN
13th May 2005, 09:56 AM
I like mine with meat, but my wife likes meatless. What does that say about her.