Too bad that Spotify gave money to Donald Trumps' inauguration.
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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You're correct, forgot about that.
Shit is everywhere nowadays..
Fucking fuck why does everything have to be awful :(
And that Barilla pasta (at least the stuff sold in Canada) is made in the USA.
Barilla makes their EU pasta in Europe.
But their pasta sold in the EU seems to be made in Parma, Italy.
It's been 4 whole hours and lemmings haven't suggested Jellyfin or Navidrome or something yet?!
Qobuz!
That wasn't the same employee. You can enjoy parts of something and not the whole.
So Barilla, the homophobic pasta maker, works with Spotify, the pro-Trump streaming platform
What makes them homophobic?
Their chairman. His position is that he "respects" gay marriage, but gay couples are not a real family. Basically the average "moderate" catholic bullshit.
The instructions are written on the packet and phones have a timer. This is marketing for Barilla and Spotify.
The ad invasion has officially begun in earnest apparently. Brands should be downvoted (or banned or quarantined or something) as a rule.
Now... what can we do about political astroturfing? Politics is super broad and people legitimately talk about it all the time (as they should).
everyone's obsessing over pasta too much. take a fork and taste one, there's no universal amount of time
True, and you are probably not putting anywhere near enough salt to the water.
And do not rinse it people. toss in oil and lay it flat to dry if need be. it'll drink up your water and be soggy
It was just soaking in boiling water for 7-9 minutes, but 1 second of cooler water with a quick toss is going to make it soggy?
I promise you yes. Chefs will throw out pasta that has been rinsed, I've seen them do it.
Oil and air dry is the way to go
Genuinely yes. When you take them out of the hot water, they're still hot and dry a bit due to steam escaping.
God damn, I already take my salt can and just pour it in for a few seconds. You trying for higher blood pressure?
"I've heard this song too often"
skip
Shut up brands.
fuck Barilla and fuck every corpo brand
they are all vampires
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/barilla-pasta-boycotted-for-chairmans-offensive-remarks
So how is that supposed to work? It depends on many factors, mostly elevation and pasta thickness, which have to be taken into account. You can cook thin pasta in a few minutes, but thicker ones easily need more than 10.
So how is that supposed to work? It depends on many factors, mostly elevation
Mostly irrelevant.
and pasta thickness
Which is why they have one playlist per sort.
This is basically advertising for Barilla.
Ah yes because we all know a pressure cooker does not cook things faster at all.
Elevation decreases atmospheric pressure, and the difference is pretty small in the ranges that people actually live.
A pressure cooker increases pressure by about 15 psi above atmospheric pressure which is pretty huge, nobody lives 5km below sea level (although it's more complicated than this).
So yes, pressure cookers do cook things faster, but the pressure difference altitude makes is basically irrelevant
Elevation decreases atmospheric pressure, and the difference is pretty small in the ranges that people actually live.
That's not entirely true actually. At 1.5km (โ5000ft) altitude it's roughly a 5ยฐC (โ9ยฐF) difference which might not sound a lot but depending on the dish that can double the cooking time. 1.5km is a relatively high altitude of course but not unheard of for villages, smaller cities and also Denver.
The example I usually use is Mexico City with 20 million people at above 2'000 m elevation. Water boils at as low as 90 ยฐC there.
It works by creating free advertisement for Barilla
sadly it does not work as good with ads and loading times in between
Much prefer La Molisana. Bronze die pasta is superior for getting starchy pasta water which is critical to achieving sauce emulsification in many pastas like spaghetti cacio e pepe, spaghetti carbonara, and bucatini allโamatriciana. The rough texture of bronze die pasta also seems to help the sauce adhere better to the surface of each noodle.
"Al dente" essentially means "cook your pasta as long as you like"
It literally means the exact opposite of that.
That is a famous superstition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8wZbNmdIKw
To be fair: I didn't know either, until I had a long discussion on the topic with my colleagues wife - who is an Italian.