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Physics predicts how spaghetti curls as it’s boiled

But the scientific literature remains silent on lasagna.
Spaghetti pasta is cooked in pan in boiling water.

Dried spaghetti strands pass through three stages of physical deformation on their way to becoming a toothsome plate of pasta. Credit: Getty

A simple mathematical model can capture the movements of a spaghetti noodle as it curls during cooking.

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Nature 577, 297 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00029-0

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