to snap spaghetti in half before it goes in the saucepan

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It doesn't fit if I don't!

My sister says I should stick it in, wait for the half that is in the water to soften enough, then bend it over so the rest goes in the hot water too.

However I don't like this because
a. the top bit sticking out the pan gets singed by the hot metal of the pan, which tastes bad
b. half the spaghetti is a bit more cooked than the other half

AIBU?

Toys

My lasagne is not proper lasagne because I use cheese sauce instead of white sauce and too many layers and of course there must be cheese on top! So Spaggy Laggy (as it is known) is not actually that bad in the great big scheme of things!

My original lasagne recipe came off the back of a lasagne sheet box in the 80's, so I think I can be forgiven!

No to snapping! Although I'm a shameless slurper & dh is a twiddler. He'd probably thank me for snapping it so he doesn't have to watch me hoover it up in a most un-Sophia Loren fashion.

I do mix different types of pasta, though. In fact, I've got a huge jar in the kitchen into which bag ends get dumped, & every so often I do a pasta bake which basically consists of the pasta bag end jar, cooked, any random fridge veg, a jar of passata, all topped with cheese sauce to use up any slightly iffy milk.

I'm just not very reverent when it comes to pasta, I'm afraid.

Bogeyface: I like cheese (and lots of it) too.. If I remember right, it was DM who objected to the cheese. Now both of them have completely forgotten all about that sodding row while me and DB are still traumatised by it

I barely ever make lasagne, because there are only three of us and DS doesn't like it weirdo Therefore I always end up hoovering up a whole pan with only a bit of help from DH..

Yabu for eating spaghetti, snapped or otherwise. Tagliatelle is where it's at - comes in nice neat little nests. Tidy.

Sometimes tgey have falle apart, though, Bat. Then you get lots of bits in the packet. Very untidy..

Oh Jaysus.. Sorry about typos -blasted virtual keyboard..

I have never experienced such sub-standard Tagliatelle. I lie, I shop in Asda

Toys I never hoover food as I have some issues, except my homemade lasgane!

And what is it with parents who have blistering rows that everyone is traumatised by, except them?! My parents dont remember any of the arguments that my sister and I can quote word for word!

How many tagliatelle nests per person though? I dont think there is a standard and there should be!

Yes.. How can they forget! DM now says that she doesn't mind the cheese and has, apparently, always the same. WTF? Oh well..

That is a question.. Even harder if they're broken..

Yes! It makes it impossible to twirl!!

My mother swears blind that she didnt serve me mince and tatties for breakfast because I didnt eat it the night before.

I know that she did!

And I remember her tipping a bowl of Rice Krispies over my 5 yr old sisters head on a "bad day" but she denies it......

That's awful! How convenient that she has forgotten..

I've thought of upturning something on DS's fussy head before, but luckily always found some restraint.. I think that could be pretty traumatic

Its funny really, its only now we realise it was abusive, but it doesnt really matter because she had serious health problems that we didnt know about. Doesnt make it right, but makes it .... ermm.....sort of live-able?

She had major hormone problems (think PMT x infinity)and she couldnt help it.

Didnt make it easy to deal with but it has made it easier to forgive.

Anyway, was thinking today, is green spinach pasta meant to be had only with green pesto? I used the tomato sauce we had open inte fridge, so the pasta ended up looking a bit brown and weird -frankly unappetising. Tasted nice, though..

Ah, both my oarent have had tgeir iwn share of mental health problems and both have been at some point on meds for depression or anxiety. They woukd say it was merely "stress", as that sounds like a "respectable" problem for an ambitious career person..

Screwed me up, they did! I don't even care if I mix pasta shapes

YANBU. There is no wrong way to eat pasta - it is all glorious in the eyes of His Noodliness. He has blessed it all with his noodly appendage.

YANBU