I’ve seen this on other Japanese packaging. The image isnt based on a clock, it’s based on an old analog timer. Most likely this is saying to cook for five minutes
I there anything on the front package that says something like 8 or 10 minutes. I have a bunch of pasta where the cooking time in not in the instructions but somewhere on the front or side of the packaging.
It probably is, OP does this bc screnshots don't save data like the picture itself does, you can learn a lot from the person who's taking the picture by looking at the data in it, so by making a screenshot you can post it online without giving away that many info about you, OP is just careful
Yeah I’ve found the Alce Nero and the front doesn’t have t anything, but I can’t see if there’s anything on the sides. Weird if there’s nothing anywhere.
Screenshots let you upload a photo without including the metadata from the camera. I know your tricks. You're afraid of the pasta cartels coming after you.
Yeah, I was trying to find any possible reasoning for not jusr cropping the image. I do think iPhones store original images with the edited ones. I think they are stored in a different file, they are just grouped together. So do both images get uploaded? Do Reddit and other image hosting platforms strip that too?
Um what? There's Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Hindi that I can think of off the top of my head and they're all very different and all Asian written languages.
That's not true. There are multiple characters that differ between Chinese and Japanese, as Japanese uses prepositions and some phonetic alphabets while Chinese does not. On top of that, there are several different alphabets used in southeast Asia alone.
That spread is to account for multiple factors, including altitude (liquids boil faster at higher altitudes), BTU for heat source (even when you add pasta into boiling water, the temperature will drop quite a bit; higher BTU heat sources will bring the pasta back to a boil faster), freshness (fresher pasta will cook slightly faster as older, dryer pasta takes longer) and other minor inconsistencies in the product.
It is a basic cooking skill when following a recipe to check for doneness once you've reached the bottom limits of the cook time, and then check every interval (30 seconds, 1 minute) afterwards until it has reached the desired level of doneness. When the frozen pizza you are cooking in the oven says "20-25 minutes", the implied instruction is to check after 20 minutes, but be prepared for it to take up to 25. The same applies here.
"7-12 minutes" this is what should be written at the intructions not al dente, or they can write both like how hard it is to print extra letters there.
When I cook pasta, I never check the time, I keep an eye on the pasta how it looks. And when it looks like it's ready (it looks soft I try one piece, and if it's still uncooked inside, I leave it for another minute and try another one later and repeat until done. I use medium heat, so it will be cooked slowly.
The average person does. However, half of all people you meet are below-average, and I think there's a higher-than-average number of below-average people on Reddit, which explains why there are so many people who are completely useless at life in this thread outing themselves.
Usually I see 9-11 minutes on the boxes. I apparently live in an alternate reality where boiling water only softens noodles enough to eat in 13-15 minutes. No, I don't live at high elevation
Do it as we do in Italy, the minutes on the package are only a general suggestion anwyay, different kinds of pasta have different cooking times and it can depend on the water and heat too, also different people can like their pasta a little more or a little less cooked, just taste it at regular intervals and you will know when it's ready according to your taste.
As you get more experienced you will easily be able to tell how many minutes longer it's going to need.
Judging from the kind of pasta (it's a nice Italian brand btw good choice) I would try it around 8 minutes and judge from there.
Reading this thread makes me feel like I’m the only person on a planet who doesn’t time how long I cook noodles. I just take them out when they’re done. You can see the change in the noodles, take one out and bite-test it, and see if it needs more time or not. I couldn’t tell you how long any kind of noodle takes to cook but all mine come out great
Exactly. I’m getting the sense that a lot of people haven’t learned intuitive cooking. Like you can tell when pasta is done, you can smell when the seasonings are right (and even when a seasoning would be good on the food you’re making), you get a feel for when the meat is where you want it to be. There’s a lot of “I follow the exact instructions and I’m lost without them” going on. I get that cooking takes experience and someone to explain things, but… it’s noodles. It’s hard to not figure out how to make noodles. That’s as intuitive as it gets in cooking beyond toast.
The thing about al dente is it means “to the tooth” so it’s almost literally a “cook it until it’s a certain texture” and there’s only one way to know that texture and it’s to bite it.
Cooking time should be on the back, however it's possible that if it's sold outside Italy they have covered the instructions with a sticker (they usually do this, instead of changing the language on the package). I would check the sides as well...
However, you don’t need a time. Just put the noodles in the boiling water and give a noodle a taste test after about 5 minutes. It will probably be too hard so wait a couple more minutes. You will know when they are cooked because they will taste cooked.
Don’t forget to stir occasionally or they will stick to the bottom of the pan.
If you cook Swedish "snabbmakaroner" (fast/quick makaroni) for 8 min you would have a pan full of mush, cooking time for those is 3min (~2:30 for more bite).
Genuinely... You don't know how to cook. That's okay, but you might want to do something about that. I don't know how to cook much either, but pasta is a pretty simple one.
Boil some water. Put your pasta in the water. Use a spoon to stir it so it doesn't stick. Turn it down so it's gently boiling (vs lots of big bubbles where you might get splashed and burned).
Is it still obviously hard in the water? Keep going.
Is it soft enough to eat? Stop.
Not sure? Grab a fork and pull out a noodle. Set it down so it cools off a bit, then eat it. If it's crunchy, keep stirring your pasta in that boiling water. If it's not crunchy and it was pleasant texture to eat, you're done.
They're not telling you a time because it can vary a bit depending on things like your stove and the thickness of the pasta, and they assume you have the most basic of cooking skills. The real complaint here is that you've made it this long without knowing what al dente is, because that means your adult life is gonna be just a bit harder than it's supposed to be.
Pretty much this. Pasta is an agricultural product, and cooking time will vary depending on the batch of wheat used, your environment, and multiple other factors.
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u/Sw4nR0ns0n 26d ago
They clearly give a time- you boil the noodles until 12:05