Transporting Spaghetti...Ideas?

[Tinkermommy]

I would suggest not cooking and bringing spaghetti. It's too fragile.

I would do penne or bowtie pasta. It can take more heat/longer wait times than spaghetti.

I have a local Italian restaurant cater a couple of times a year. They discourage anyone from doing spaghetti this way.

I would buy one of those big disposable cooking pans. Mix the sauce with the pasta, throw some cheese on it and bake it until it is bubbling hot. That will hold its heat pretty well and penne and bowtie wont become mush.

Good luck!

 

[NEM]

I made enough pasta for a small kiddie pool for a toddler play activity...This worked like a charm.
- Early in the AM, I boiled the pasta to just underdone.
- Drained the pasta and added a bit of olive oil to prevent sticking.
- Dumped it into ziploc bags (gallon size) and close
- Wrapped the bags up in a towel and then put into a hard sided small cooler.
- It was still steaming hot and done perfectly from the steam it generated done 4 hours later...we actually had to let it cool a bit.
- I did all sorts of shapes and it worked perfectly for all.
- I did about 15-20 lbs of pasta and it worked great. I just added the hot ziploc bags in the towel as they were done and packaged.

Good luck!

 

[LuvOrlando]

I was thinking ziplock too because that's how I keep my pasta in the fridge all the time.

 

[shortbun]

Tell the sauce person to bring something else and sauce the pasta yourself. This is too much stress to avoid cheap noodles being ruined. I learned a neat trick for good sauce. I brown the meat and onions then add three different jar sauces. Makes it taste homemade. I use a garlic, a cheese and a meat sauce. it works for gravy too. Rachel Ray's idea.