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(I'm not Italian, this is wild speculation) I think it directly translates to something like "to the tooth", so I always imagine it meaning a food having a ce
by moolcool 3y ago
(I'm not Italian, this is wild speculation)
I think it directly translates to something like "to the tooth", so I always imagine it meaning a food having a certain kind of "bite".
- Sharlin 3y agoIt simply means that you feel a degree of resistance or firmness when you bite an al dente piece of food, ie. it has a "tooth feel" unlike soft, fully cooked starchy things. An engineer might say that al dente has more shear strength left than fully cooked.