Pasta Cooking Time
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- Market Basket Rigatoni has ridges at 1.74mm and valleys at 1.32mm.
- The box recommends cooking for 13-15 minutes, but the author found 10-12 minutes to be ideal.
- Family taste tests showed preferences ranging from 9m15s to 11m45s, with consensus that 12m45s was mushy.
- The author's Italian-American family believes Americans prefer softer pasta than traditional Italian standards.
- Microscope investigation of pasta at different cooking times didn't reveal significant structural differences.
- The pasta shape, Rigatoni, is nicknamed 'hospital noodles' due to a family anecdote.