Flat Pasta That Turns Into 3-D Shapes — Just Add Boiling Water
The New York Times
The engineers are in the kitchen, again.
Don’t be fooled. This pasta may look like your average fettuccine. But cook it for seven minutes in boiling water and it will transform, coiling into a neat spiral. The dynamic noodle is one of several designed and debuted this week by researchers at a Carnegie Mellon University lab. Each new pasta design starts out flat and unassuming, but bounces and swells into three dimensions when boiled. In a paper published Wednesday in Science Advances, the researchers say the flat-to-plump pasta is not only fun to make, but uses less packaging, has a smaller carbon footprint and cooks faster than traditional dried pasta.More Related News