Macaroni: 6 minutes
Small wagon wheels: 7 minutes
Rotini: 7 minutes
Spaghetti: 10 minutes
Spaghetti is not thicker than the other pastas, but it takes longer to cook and this makes no sense to me. How does this work?
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It’s not just thickness, it’s also surface area to thickness.
Wagon wheels are thinner than spaghetti and have more relative contact to water.
Fettuccine takes longer to cook than spaghetti because it is thicker. There are other types of pasta that take longer too. They will tend to be thicker shapes.
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