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The Invention of a New Pasta Shape

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Re: The Invention of a New Pasta Shape

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One of their advertising points is using right angles and varying thicknesses to produce different textures... so while parts will be aldente others mushy I guess. Sounds a lot like marketing attempting to pass off a bad feature as a positive

came here to say that the thikness of those junctions would make the cooking uneven

Re: The Invention of a New Pasta Shape

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The year is 2045. 35 percent of humanity's GDP is invested in improving pasta technology. The current record-setting pasta is being extruded through a bronze die which had been cast into a void produced by activated charcoal formed around transformer-derived non-euclidean topologies. A one-quarter-inch pasta has three square miles of surface area.

In 2045, 3% of the world population is still using retarded units. The world; perhaps; never changes.

Re: The Invention of a New Pasta Shape

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post #19

The year is 2045. 35 percent of humanity's GDP is invested in improving pasta technology. The current record-setting pasta is being extruded through a bronze die which had been cast into a void produced by activated charcoal formed around transformer-derived non-euclidean topologies. A one-quarter-inch pasta has three square miles of surface area.

Extrusion is soooo 2032. Here in 2045 we direct nanobots to assemble our 3D-fractal pasta to atomic precision. Look for it under the brand name FractalDente™.

Klein bottle shaped pastas can be constructed and blur the distinction between extruded noodles and filled pastas.

Getting hungry thinking about it.

Re: The Invention of a New Pasta Shape

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The year is 2045. 35 percent of humanity's GDP is invested in improving pasta technology. The current record-setting pasta is being extruded through a bronze die which had been cast into a void produced by activated charcoal formed around transformer-derived non-euclidean topologies. A one-quarter-inch pasta has three square miles of surface area.

If you swap "pasta" with "keyboards", you'll get 2021 :D

Just the other day, I saw a prototype of a maglev-mounted keyboard. Vibration dampening is the trend these days, and going over the top (with questionable objective returns) is rather common.

Re: The Invention of a New Pasta Shape

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The year is 2045. 35 percent of humanity's GDP is invested in improving pasta technology. The current record-setting pasta is being extruded through a bronze die which had been cast into a void produced by activated charcoal formed around transformer-derived non-euclidean topologies. A one-quarter-inch pasta has three square miles of surface area.

I’m expecting to see a website called “this pasta does not exist” anytime soon.

It’s a shame that we have such powerful AI (and of course blockchain) tech which hasn’t been applied to pasta yet!

Re: The Invention of a New Pasta Shape

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post #69

I always thought that the "fun-shapes" macaroni had better mouth-feel than plain elbows. Apparently that is due to the right-angles and the term-of-art is "Toothsinkability". Radiatore are currently my reigning favorite, especially for mac and cheese. This looks like it has less overall surface-area-to-volume than radiatore, but is better for holding thicker sauces vs the thin fin gaps in radiatore.

I've switched to fusilli from elbows for mac & cheese because it holds more sauce. But radiatore looks good for that too - I'll have to try and find some in my area.

Re: The Invention of a New Pasta Shape

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post #35

One of their advertising points is using right angles and varying thicknesses to produce different textures... so while parts will be aldente others mushy I guess. Sounds a lot like marketing attempting to pass off a bad feature as a positive

Here are the rest of the points for anyone who doesn't make it to the product page: - Longer cut than most short shapes provides more fork insertion points, improves forkability - Bucatini half-tube + ruffles create a "sauce trough" for max sauceability - Bronze die extrusion creates a rougher surface, further boosting sauceability - Right angles (rare in pasta shapes) resist bite force from all directions, maximize…

> forkability

> sauceability

> toothsinkability

Today I learned that that suffixal semantic satiability exists

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

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