Mission: ImPASTAble 1 | Spaghetti Sucks

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Spaghetti doesn’t hold sauce. Angel hair goes from zero to mush. Wagon wheels are gimmicks. These are just a few of Dan’s many frustrations with classic pasta shapes. Three years ago he set out to do better when he embarked on a quest to invent a new pasta shape, actually get it made, and actually sell it. And things have not gone as planned. Starting today, we’re telling the story of Dan’s quest in a five-part series; part 2 is also up now. Will the world have a new pasta shape? Or will Dan’s dreams fall as flat as an overcooked rigatoni? Want to see photos and videos from Dan’s journey? Follow The Sporkful on Instagram! // Get 500+ more great Sporkful episodes from our catalog and lots of other Stitcher goodness when you sign up for Stitcher Premium: www.StitcherPremium.com/Sporkful (promo code: SPORKFUL). Transcript available at www.sporkful.com.

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0:00.0	Hello!
0:01.0	Hi!
0:02.0	Welcome to Caviar!
0:03.0	Today we're kicking off something really big.
0:04.0	We were working on it for three years.
0:05.0	And we'll begin at the beginning.
0:06.0	It's June 2018 and we're at Caviar.
0:09.0	It's a performance based in bar on New York's Lower East Side.
0:12.0	We organized this event there called the Bukitini Dialogues, a debate about pasta shapes.
0:27.0	After a brief intro, I get right to the point.
0:30.0	And I'm just going to go ahead and say it.
0:32.0	Spaghetti sucks.
0:35.0	Thank you.
0:36.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:38.0	I said it.
0:41.0	It's round on the outside.
0:43.0	That means there's a low surface area in relation to the volume.
0:46.0	That means that sauce doesn't adhere to it well.
0:48.0	It means less of a contacture teeth when you first bite it.
0:51.0	There's all this romanticism around spaghetti.
0:54.0	It's spaghetti and meatballs isn't even an Italian thing.
0:57.0	The lady in the tram did a great disservice to American culinary history by romanticizing spaghetti.
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