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Pop-Up Pasta Party (2/13/23)

Wow in the World

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How to Control the Shape of the Flat Pasta Noodles

Scientists added their own flat pasta dough into boiling water and found that the grooves sides expanded and swelled like a little bit of water. The grooves swelled less than the smooth sides, which led the pasta to morph into three-dimensional shapes. Two spirals, twist, waves, ribbons, ruffles, pasta, plumping and swelling to almost every shape you could dream of.

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