The world’s thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team. The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging uses that extremely thin strands of material, called nanofibers, have in medicine and industry.
In a new paper in Nanoscale Advances, the team describe making spaghetti just 372 nanometers (billionths of a meter) across using a technique called electrospinning, in which threads of flour and liquid are pulled through the tip of a needle by an electric charge.
“I don’t think it’s useful as pasta, sadly, as it would overcook in less than a second, before you could take it out of the pan.”
Italian asbestos
Mama Mia, they shrunka my spaghet
With this and a ragu polymer, you could create spaghettiglass
Professor Williams added, “I don’t think it’s useful as pasta, sadly, as it would overcook in less than a second, before you could take it out of the pan.”
clearly not a professor of cooking, as he didn’t consider the immediately obvious solution of “don’t cook it, just pour a hot sauce over it” 🙄🙄🙄
World’s smallest Italian man:
I cook’a da pasta
But only for a fraction of a second
All other science in the world is going to have to take a pause until we figure this shit out. I want to try the asbestosghetti.
well these chemists should come up with a way to cook’a da pasta
spray some water on it and microwave for 1 second, there you go mama mia
“I don’t think it’s useful as pasta, sadly, as it would overcook in less than a second, before you could take it out of the pan.”
Yeah no I’d hate for the instant noodles I have to breathe on heavily to cook to be real
Make it THINNER
You’re hungry for innovation? Here’s me, cooking the world’s smallest spaghetti
could probably make something similar by putting the same formic acid and flour mixture into a cotton candy spinner
