

When the pandemic hit, the idea gained traction, and students and postdocs started working on it at home and in the lab. "We then realized that specifically, the mechanical texture of noodles changes as function of cooking, and our analysis can demonstrate a relation between adhesion, mechanical texture, and doneness." "Over the last few years, we joked about how pasta noodle adhesion is very related to our work," he said. They combined measurements of pasta parameters, such as expansion, bending rigidity, and water content to solve a variety of equations to form a theoretical model for the swelling dynamics of starch materials.Īuthor Sameh Tawfick, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said exploring the properties of noodles was a straightforward pivot from the lab's main work of studying the fluid structure interaction of very flexible and deformable fibers, hairs, and elastic structures.
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In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, researchers from the United States examined how pasta swells, softens, and becomes sticky as it takes up water. To boot, sometimes noodles will stick to each other or the saucepan. Noodles can take different times to fully cook, and different recipes call for different amounts of salt to be added. Newswise - WASHINGTON, Ap– Achieving the perfect al dente texture for a pasta noodle can be tough. News Research News Releases Journal News Medical News Science News Life News Business News Expert Pitch Google Fact Check Research Alert Marketplace News With Video/Audio Multimedia RSS Feeds by Latest News Coronavirus News Currently Embargoed
