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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27902773

Drop the pasta, start the playlist, when the music is over, youโ€™ve got perfectly cooked pasta

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[โ€“] Fleur_@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 5 days ago

This reinforces my belief that will always list the most convoluted and vague measurements.

[โ€“] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're correct, forgot about that.

Shit is everywhere nowadays..

Fucking fuck why does everything have to be awful :(

[โ€“] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And that Barilla pasta (at least the stuff sold in Canada) is made in the USA.

Barilla makes their EU pasta in Europe.

[โ€“] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

But their pasta sold in the EU seems to be made in Parma, Italy.

[โ€“] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's been 4 whole hours and lemmings haven't suggested Jellyfin or Navidrome or something yet?!

That wasn't the same employee. You can enjoy parts of something and not the whole.

[โ€“] tatann@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So Barilla, the homophobic pasta maker, works with Spotify, the pro-Trump streaming platform

[โ€“] wasabi@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What makes them homophobic?

[โ€“] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

Their chairman. His position is that he "respects" gay marriage, but gay couples are not a real family. Basically the average "moderate" catholic bullshit.

[โ€“] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for this mention!

I'm returning the box I bought recently, I'll buy a different brand.

Barilla is homophobic or just italian? I mean they elected homophobia as a president...

[โ€“] dumblederp@aussie.zone 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The instructions are written on the packet and phones have a timer. This is marketing for Barilla and Spotify.

[โ€“] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The ad invasion has officially begun in earnest apparently. Brands should be downvoted (or banned or quarantined or something) as a rule.

Now... what can we do about political astroturfing? Politics is super broad and people legitimately talk about it all the time (as they should).

[โ€“] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

everyone's obsessing over pasta too much. take a fork and taste one, there's no universal amount of time

[โ€“] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

True, and you are probably not putting anywhere near enough salt to the water.

[โ€“] Doom@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And do not rinse it people. toss in oil and lay it flat to dry if need be. it'll drink up your water and be soggy

[โ€“] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It was just soaking in boiling water for 7-9 minutes, but 1 second of cooler water with a quick toss is going to make it soggy?

[โ€“] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Genuinely yes. When you take them out of the hot water, they're still hot and dry a bit due to steam escaping.

[โ€“] Doom@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 week ago

I promise you yes. Chefs will throw out pasta that has been rinsed, I've seen them do it.

Oil and air dry is the way to go

God damn, I already take my salt can and just pour it in for a few seconds. You trying for higher blood pressure?

[โ€“] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 13 points 1 week ago

Shut up brands.

[โ€“] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago

"I've heard this song too often"

skip

[โ€“] VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are they vampires or honest about his view? Really not the big deal you want it to be. You can't take a slightly uncomfortable truth but prefer confident bullshit lies from whoever is trying to market to you at that moment.

[โ€“] VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

get that boot out of your mouth when you type at me

[โ€“] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because barilla doesn't want to make an LGBT starred cast for his advertising and me saying what's wrong with that and your response is " get that boot out of your mouth". What an insufferable individual you are and if people online wanna see what brought us to trump and the fucking microspheres its giant whining dumb dumbs like you who push men and even sometimes women to the right with your constant nitpicking, excessive cancel culture, culture war bullshit and bickering meaning no cohesion on the left.

You need to grow some balls and enter the real world bud and learn how to talk like a real adult using sentences like they did in the old old days

[โ€“] VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is some impressive noodle-defending prose for a person drooling down their shirt, defiantly refusing to remove the boot from their mouth.

[โ€“] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Textbook basement dwelling redditor. I'm wasting my time

[โ€“] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

sadly it does not work as good with ads and loading times in between

[โ€“] Eheran@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So how is that supposed to work? It depends on many factors, mostly elevation and pasta thickness, which have to be taken into account. You can cook thin pasta in a few minutes, but thicker ones easily need more than 10.

[โ€“] JASN_DE@feddit.org 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So how is that supposed to work? It depends on many factors, mostly elevation

Mostly irrelevant.

and pasta thickness

Which is why they have one playlist per sort.

This is basically advertising for Barilla.

[โ€“] Eheran@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes because we all know a pressure cooker does not cook things faster at all.

[โ€“] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Elevation decreases atmospheric pressure, and the difference is pretty small in the ranges that people actually live.

A pressure cooker increases pressure by about 15 psi above atmospheric pressure which is pretty huge, nobody lives 5km below sea level (although it's more complicated than this).

So yes, pressure cookers do cook things faster, but the pressure difference altitude makes is basically irrelevant

[โ€“] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Elevation decreases atmospheric pressure, and the difference is pretty small in the ranges that people actually live.

That's not entirely true actually. At 1.5km (โ‰ˆ5000ft) altitude it's roughly a 5ยฐC (โ‰ˆ9ยฐF) difference which might not sound a lot but depending on the dish that can double the cooking time. 1.5km is a relatively high altitude of course but not unheard of for villages, smaller cities and also Denver.

[โ€“] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The example I usually use is Mexico City with 20 million people at above 2'000 m elevation. Water boils at as low as 90 ยฐC there.

[โ€“] myster0n@feddit.nl 13 points 1 week ago

It works by creating free advertisement for Barilla

Much prefer La Molisana. Bronze die pasta is superior for getting starchy pasta water which is critical to achieving sauce emulsification in many pastas like spaghetti cacio e pepe, spaghetti carbonara, and bucatini allโ€™amatriciana. The rough texture of bronze die pasta also seems to help the sauce adhere better to the surface of each noodle.

[โ€“] yojimbo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Al dente" essentially means "cook your pasta as long as you like"

[โ€“] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It literally means the exact opposite of that.

[โ€“] yojimbo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That is a famous superstition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8wZbNmdIKw

To be fair: I didn't know either, until I had a long discussion on the topic with my colleagues wife - who is an Italian.