Spaghetti cutters

[Jakarta]

Amused by the debate on left handed knifers, I thought I'd ask the question - Do you cut up all your spaghetti, tagliatelle or other long stringy pasta before eating, or do you stab a chunk and then twist in your spoon in to a big messy lump?

I've always been a cut first and fork it up after, also helps that this mixes the Ragu in with the cheese and pasta thus ensuring one receives a complete dose of what the chef intended.

I've often used a spoon once I've chopped everything up. Italians frown at me when I'm doing this.

[designforlife]

I twirl it up with a fork resting on a spoon to stop it coming off the end of the fork, 2 handed affair but has always worked for me.

[Rawwr]

I just fist it into my gaping maw in giant handfuls.

[HarryFlatters]

I use a fork and a spoon, like a polite person.

My wife cuts and shovels, like an animal.

[Gary29]

Fork and spoon.

[PositronicRay]

I once watched a couple, an Italian chap, suited and booted quite formal, looked like a second or third date. Eating mussels with a knife and fork.

They didn't have pasta.

[ApOrbital]

Use to be fork and spoon,now I'm posh I get the peasants to feed me.

[AppleJuice]

Left-hander here. Spoon and fork.

[bazza white]

My ex cooked me a spag bol before. When it was served up the spaghetti was in short pieces, i asked wtf is this to which she said she prefers it broken up before it goes into the pan. Not a major life event bit it put me in a wierd mood for the rest of the evening.


Stab and win, if you cut spaghetti up you may as all have normal pasta.

[dillenger]

Snapping spaghetti is like eating your sister out... It will taste the same but it’s just not right...

[Faust66]

dillenger said:

Snapping spaghetti is like eating your sister out... It will taste the same but it’s just not right...

Voice of experience, hmmm?

No need for a spoon to 'rest' your fork on when eating spaghetti or tagliatelle - just don't be over ambitious and you'll be fine. The key is to not grab too many strands when you start twirling...

[Kenny Powers]

Straw.

[SpeckledJim]

Spaghetti is just a royal pain in the arse.

Penne please, or just about any of the others.

[Ninja59]

Just a fork for me.

I have never really been "comfortable" with pasta with ragu, am I odd?

[Cotty]

SpeckledJim said:

Spaghetti is just a royal pain in the arse.

Penne please, or just about any of the others.

Yep never order Spaghetti.

[geeks]

Just fork here, twirls easy enough without a spoon.

Cutting spaghetti is just plain wrong!

[condor]

I prefer pasta shapes - but if I do have spaghetti, I chop it up after it's been served up on the plate.

[PositronicRay]

condor said:

I prefer pasta shapes - but if I do have spaghetti, I chop it up after it's been served up on the plate.

This reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI5m7DlcwNs

[PositronicRay]

I'm a lover of all things pasta

I'll never forget my 1st encounter, mid sixties shopping with my dad. He came out of the grocer's with 18" long spaghetti wrapped in paper. To a 6 y/o me it didn't resemble food, thought dad had gone bonkers.


How wrong I was.


BTW I'm a fork and twist, no spoon required.

[Deesee]

PositronicRay said:

BTW I'm a fork and twist, no spoon required.

Surely the only way!