Stir gently. Return to a boil. For authentic "al dente" pasta, boil uncovered, stirring occasionally for 6 minutes. For more tender pasta, boil an additional 1 minute.
Spaghetti must be cooked just the way they are: intact! Then, they must be eaten rolling them up with a fork. And if you cannot eat them without breaking them… you can still have a shorter kind of pasta, like penne!
One theory suggests that breaking spaghetti is simply bad etiquette, though this is really just an extension of the main reason — spaghetti is meant to be eaten whole, so breaking it could be perceived as rude (similarly, it's also considered rude to cut spaghetti with a knife, for mostly the same reasons).
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