Mystery Solved Physics

Here’s how to bend spaghetti to your will

To avoid having the pasta shatter, give it a twist before snapping it in half

snapping spaghetti

CLEAN BREAK  Researchers discovered the secret to snapping dry spaghetti in half using a custom device (above) that twists and bends a rod of pasta until it breaks.

Ronald Heisser and Vishal Patil

By Maria Temming

- More than 2 years ago

Here’s good news for anyone who’s had to sweep up pasta shards after snapping dry spaghetti and thought, “there’s got to be a better way.”