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[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago
  1. fake solidarity because this doesnt help ukraine, it's just liberalism
  2. double-fake solidarity because it only "felt like" an act of solidarity
  3. terminal liberal brainworms, to think your individual boycott matters
[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

This just looks like someone coping with rising energy bills by pretending their financial pain is an act of solidarity.

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[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

The traditional Italian method of boiling pasta

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

What high school essay needing to hit the word count shit is this?

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

I love the financial times

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

lmao I non-traditionally boil my pasta in my air fryer

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

making it according to the traditional Italian method in an uncovered pot of vigorously boiling water

What other methods are there? Microwave?

[-] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An Italian scientist got a lot of flak back in 2022 for pointing out that you can boil the pasta for 2-3 minutes, turn off the burner, and let the residual heat cook the rest of the pasta and get the same result, saving some (very expensive back then) gas. So apparently that's a more energy-efficient way to cook pasta, if marginally so.

Italians, not liking when their very dear "muh traditions" are exposed to be based on rote repetition of recipes from very different material conditions and marketing from the 1920s, got very mad at him before even trying if the method worked or not.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every time I go into the comments of a youtube video about making a traditional Italian dish easier it's full of the most pretentious people in the world talking about how "That's not real Risotto, my Italian mother blah blah blah" like shut the fuck up, your name is Carl and you live in Altoona, Iowa.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

I once posted a pic of some spaghetti meatballs to a dorm group chat. The Italian dude immediately jumps in and says "that's not real pasta". So I say to him "noodles are from China, so you guys are actually just fucking up 捞面 really bad."

Dude got legitimately mad and didn't talk to me for a week. Worth it.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I knew one of these guys in college, one time I ate his cooking and it was the worst fucking spaghetti I've ever had in my life lmao

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

A dude that gave me that attitude on pasta/noodles also tried to (erronously) correct me on spider taxonomy and the ranges of mosquitos. I sticks with me years later.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I deal with ths as a job. It's insufferable. None one I work with is even Italian.

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Huh, interesting! They also mention pre-soaking the pasta for two hours to save more energy (since most of the time is really spent rehydrating rather than truly cooking) which can cut the cooking time from ten minutes to one or two minutes. Might have to give it a shot out of curiosity!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I didn't try the soaking method, but I did try the turning it off halfway method. The texture of the pasta is slightly different, but barely noticeable, unless you're using really high-quality pasta from higher-protein durum wheat (the one used the most in Italy). In that case it does turn a bit gummy.

If you're using regular-ass pasta made from red or winter wheat, which is the pasta you get in 99% of the world (unless you're importing or getting it from a high-quality brand), there's virtually no difference, in my very limited experimentation.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Mormon teens are experts in the soaking technique

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Remember to wash off the rehydration water cuz that's where the anti-nutritive chemicals go

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

An Italian scientist in a lab coat, wearing a chef hat, with beakers full of sauces, intently studying pasta. When the results stump him, they do the hand gesture.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't met any pasta scientists, but i've met a few Italian food scientists who do all the hand gestures. It's really funny

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I know pasta scientist and italian food scientists, they are all ridiculously stereotypical

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Italians are very stereotypical in general.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

As someone who works in an Italian restaurant making food in a stupid way cause trad is most of the cuisine.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

i always put the pasta in first, cover it with as little cold water as possible and then put a lid on it until it boils. its supposed to be faster but i mainly do it because i know it would piss off italians

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I've tried that and the outside of the pasta is a bit overcooked and slimy when i've done it. These days i just boil water on the kettle, pour it in a pot and add the pasta. Faster and no fuss.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

You’ve never had cold brew pasta?

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

You don't make your pasta in a Fr*nch press?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

honestly the hard part is finding one tall enough to fit the dry noodles without having to break them

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Breaking spaghetti to get it into your pot is good. I like to crush it up into a fine powder and make a wheat soup

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I consider this a hate crime

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Well you shouldn't. I love doing it so it's a love crime

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yer hurting all of us out of spite

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

MODS? MODS!!

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I boil my water in a covered pot first,otherwise it takes more time to get to boiling

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I like to do the all American method of serving chicken, by cooking it before eating it.

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With complementary "Roman" salutes

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Romaine Salute kelly

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I thought it was weird when they brought out the breadsticks tied in a bundle around a tiny axe.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

data-laughing

Thanks for this, this is going to give me some props in the group text

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the time Germans turned off their lights one evening to show Putin how upset they were.

Performative malarkey.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

To be fair, turning off the lights while losing to Russia is a German tradition

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If your energy bills are so high that you're looking for more efficient ways to cook food (which in a normal energy market would only save you a few cents per serving), it's time to revolt!

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Nah I think I’ll give more money to the military to show the enemy who’s boss

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Reducing energy expenditure in order to curb global warming? Naw.

Choosing not to run the stove to boil 2L of water for 10 minutes, in order to weaken Russia? Now we're talking.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

It turns out we were wrong all the time we were thinking that there was no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your service :usa:

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Look blueberries and cheese go hard. Slava

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