Pasta I think absorbs around 0.9 of its weight for al dente. You can use for smaller shapes but for spaghetti is too little the volume. And you have evaporation

Pasta I think absorbs around 0.9 of its weight for al dente. You can use for smaller shapes but for spaghetti is too little the volume. And you have evaporation loss. Still this is one of those feel good adjustments not the effective ones.