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."
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" 🙄🙄🙄
With this and a ragu polymer, you could create spaghettiglass
"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
spray some water on it and microwave for 1 second, there you go mama mia
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.
could probably make something similar by putting the same formic acid and flour mixture into a cotton candy spinner
You're hungry for innovation? Here's me, cooking the world's smallest spaghetti
