How to Eat Spaghetti

You'll never stain another blouse, shirt or tie after this handy lesson. Applicable to spaghetti eaters of all ages.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A Large Bowl Or Plate Of Hot Pasta
• Large Dinner Forks
• Napkins - Just In Case

1. Hold the fork in your hand as if to poke the spaghetti. Scoop up a small amount of noodles on your fork and raise it about 12 inches above your plate. (Don't take too much spaghetti or you will end up with too big a bite. If you get what seems like too much, shake some of the spaghetti loose from the fork.)

2. Make sure the noodles are completely disconnected from the spaghetti on your plate.

3. Put the tines of the fork at an edge of the plate that is free of food. Quickly point the tines of the fork straight down toward the plate and place the points on the plate.

4. Twirl the fork to gather the noodles around the tines. With a quick scooping movement, gather up the roll around the tines and place in your mouth.

5. Gently gather up any stray noodle ends that don't make it all the way into your mouth. Stain-free spaghetti eating!

Tips & Warnings

• It is always a good idea to wear a napkin as a bib when eating any sauced pasta dish.
• Some people use a spoon to rest the fork on or cut the spaghetti with a knife, but Italians never do this; they just twirl the spaghetti on the fork.

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[tomain]

on 2/15/2009 It does not matter how you eat spaghetti, as long as you enjoy it, with a few exceptions. Most people in India eat with their fingers. In my opinion it is slovenly to eat pasta in sauce with your fingers. Simply use a fork and try not to talk with your mouth full of food, and you will find it easy to consume spaghetti.

[victorkor]

on 12/20/2007 Why not cut it? We would not suck up a whole sausage so why do so with spaghetti - does not make sense to try and eat it whole - really ludicrous

[costi105]

on 3/27/2007 Cutting spaghetti or using a spoon to eat it is not proper.

on 2/16/2006 For you right handed people out there: Take a spoon in your left hand and the fork in the right, pretend you're about to toss a salad. Take the spaghetti between the fork and spoon and twirl the fork against the spoon until the noodles are around your fork. This is the best way not to splatter, and also the proper way to eat spaghetti. I always inevitably am wearing white when I'm eating spaghetti, and haven't had any problems except when I was a small child and was unaware of how to properly eat spaghetti.

on 1/30/2006 Some American restaurants serve pasta with a spoon for you to use to twirl the spaghetti around your fork. This custom is not Italian, however, and is not practiced in Italy.