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2023 Author: Gabrielle Mercer | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 12:25
Do you automatically grab a spoon with pasta and do you prefer to cut your pizza into tiny pieces? We once asked how it was done correctly.
You're invited to the Italian and nervously googling how to eat spaghetti properly. At home you take the spoon in hand or cut the pasta with the knife so that you can scoop it in comfortably. Don't worry, we know it. But then we'd like to know how to do it properly for the restaurant. I did some research and had the whole thing covered by Luca, my colleague with Italian roots. Nothing can go wrong now …
This is how you eat spaghetti properly
Spaghetti or pasta in general are correctly eaten with a fork. To do this, you take a small portion with a fork and turn it on the edge of the plate (whether flat or not) to form a mouth-sized piece. Eating the pasta with a spoon is an absolute no-go. And you shouldn't cut the pasta with a knife either. Luca has a hot tip for you: Before you throw the spaghetti in the pot, simply break the pasta in the middle, then you can wrap it better.
This is the right way to eat pizza
Anyone who thinks that pizza is eaten "very elegantly" with a knife and fork, piece by piece, is wrong. Basically, you cut pizza into large pieces and eat them by hand. You can also tear the pizza slice from the whole pizza instead of cutting it. And folding the pizza slice is not frowned upon, but rather clever, because then the sauce and cheese cannot run down the sides. Otherwise, depending on the thickness of the base, it can be quite difficult to eat the pizza by hand. So now you know …