I have to say, I like this, in no small part because it’s an experiment I’ve thought about trying.
Right off the bat, two things come to mind:
1. water temperature. This would relate to the elevation of the people who made the box times, versus your elevation while cooking. If the box people live up some mountain, it would create longer cooking times. Similarly if you live at very low elevation, which I doubt unless you live on the shores of the Dead Sea or in Furnace Creek.
2. Your version of al dente may not be the same as the box people.
Either or both of these would lend themselves to reproducing the results of this graph.
So to help control the variables, are you a professional chef/cook?
Ghotay on
I note you did not include farfalle
Confused-Raccoon on
I was about to ask about the grey dots… Then I realised they were marks on my monitor that perfectly lined up with some of the Al Dente and the beginning of the box range…
arthurmauk on
Haha I saw the same post and wanted the same thing! Was even considering making the lines into the pasta shapes!
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Data from this glorious reddit post by u/sthduh/ [https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/1qxdjxy/i_timed_how_long_31_different_pasta_shapes_take/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/1qxdjxy/i_timed_how_long_31_different_pasta_shapes_take/)
Python matplotlib code is at [https://gist.github.com/cavedave/ac04924b422a261f0adc63e20505c974](https://gist.github.com/cavedave/ac04924b422a261f0adc63e20505c974) if you remix it or anything let me know?
I have to say, I like this, in no small part because it’s an experiment I’ve thought about trying.
Right off the bat, two things come to mind:
1. water temperature. This would relate to the elevation of the people who made the box times, versus your elevation while cooking. If the box people live up some mountain, it would create longer cooking times. Similarly if you live at very low elevation, which I doubt unless you live on the shores of the Dead Sea or in Furnace Creek.
2. Your version of al dente may not be the same as the box people.
Either or both of these would lend themselves to reproducing the results of this graph.
So to help control the variables, are you a professional chef/cook?
I note you did not include farfalle
I was about to ask about the grey dots… Then I realised they were marks on my monitor that perfectly lined up with some of the Al Dente and the beginning of the box range…
Haha I saw the same post and wanted the same thing! Was even considering making the lines into the pasta shapes!