Chemists create world's thinnest spaghetti (phys.org)

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The world's thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team. The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging uses that extremely thin strands of material, called nanofibers, have in medicine and industry.

In a new paper in Nanoscale Advances, the team describe making spaghetti just 372 nanometers (billionths of a meter) across using a technique called electrospinning, in which threads of flour and liquid are pulled through the tip of a needle by an electric charge.

"I don't think it's useful as pasta, sadly, as it would overcook in less than a second, before you could take it out of the pan."

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[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago

I cook'a da pasta

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago

But only for a fraction of a second

[-] The_sleepy_woke_dialectic@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

All other science in the world is going to have to take a pause until we figure this shit out. I want to try the asbestosghetti.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

well these chemists should come up with a way to cook'a da pasta

[-] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

spray some water on it and microwave for 1 second, there you go mama mia

[-] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago

With this and a ragu polymer, you could create spaghettiglass

[-] Big_Bob@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

AyyyyyOC-big

Mama Mia, they shrunka my spaghet

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

"I don't think it's useful as pasta, sadly, as it would overcook in less than a second, before you could take it out of the pan."

Yeah no I'd hate for the instant noodles I have to breathe on heavily to cook to be real

[-] lurker_supreme@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

World's smallest Italian man: peppino-groovin

[-] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

Professor Williams added, "I don't think it's useful as pasta, sadly, as it would overcook in less than a second, before you could take it out of the pan."

clearly not a professor of cooking, as he didn't consider the immediately obvious solution of "don't cook it, just pour a hot sauce over it" 🙄🙄🙄