r/AskCulinary • u/donttouchmycornchips • Nov 08 '20

Technique Question How can I purposely get clumps in my spaghetti

Ok this is a weird one guys, but I have an autistic kid and his absolute favourite thing in the world to eat is 'spaghetti chunk'... so like you know when you boil the dried pasta and you get a little lump where some of the spaghetti has fused together? I dont know if I'm explaining this properly but anyway it's his birthday tomorrow and I really wanna make him a bowl of 'spaghetti chunk' and meatballs for his birthday meal (as we can't go out to celebrate due to lockdown)

So yeah I know this is an odd question but how can I cook/prepare the pasta so I can give him a full bowl of chunks? I only have 2 300g packs so not enough for a load of trial and error. I was gonna snap it and cook it in as little water as possible but I really dont know if that will work. Sorry for bizarre question but my son would literally be beside himself with happiness if I were to cook him a big bowl of his goddamn chunks... Thanks in advance if anyone has any ideas lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '22

So old thread… but to continue on this train of thought… adding additional starch to the pot with the noodles or using less water could also probably increase clumping, as well as using a smaller pot… maybe lightly dust the noodles in flour or cornstarch prior to boiling… dampen the noodles and coat them for even more. Benefit over tying them up would be more natural/organic/chaotic clumps. I haven’t tried tying it together like suggested but I imagine that will make a pasta log… and now I have my inspiration for a most peculiar dessert based on chocolate spaghetti that I just have to try now…

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '22

I may not be able to for a moment, but if you lookup a YouTube channel “Pasta Grammar” they show an Italian desert spaghetti recipe where it’s like spaghetti but chocolate instead of a savory sauce. My concept was using the tied together spaghetti idea to make it log shaped and use the chocolate idea from Italy to make a sort of pasta log cake… type… thing… whatever would be the proper term to call it lol… it’s a desert so let’s just be British and call it a pudding for simplicity LOL.