<story><title>The Invention of a New Pasta Shape</title><url>https://kottke.org/21/03/the-invention-of-a-new-pasta-shape</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Extrusion is soooo 2032. Here in 2045 we direct nanobots to assemble our 3D-fractal pasta to atomic precision. Look for it under the brand name FractalDente™.</text></item><item><author>MPSimmons</author><text>The year is 2045. 35 percent of humanity&amp;#x27;s GDP is invested in improving pasta technology. The current record-setting pasta is being extruded through a bronze die which had been cast into a void produced by activated charcoal formed around transformer-derived non-euclidean topologies. A one-quarter-inch pasta has three square miles of surface area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>powvans</author><text>Klein bottle shaped pastas can be constructed and blur the distinction between extruded noodles and filled pastas.&lt;p&gt;Getting hungry thinking about it.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Invention of a New Pasta Shape</title><url>https://kottke.org/21/03/the-invention-of-a-new-pasta-shape</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Extrusion is soooo 2032. Here in 2045 we direct nanobots to assemble our 3D-fractal pasta to atomic precision. Look for it under the brand name FractalDente™.</text></item><item><author>MPSimmons</author><text>The year is 2045. 35 percent of humanity&amp;#x27;s GDP is invested in improving pasta technology. The current record-setting pasta is being extruded through a bronze die which had been cast into a void produced by activated charcoal formed around transformer-derived non-euclidean topologies. A one-quarter-inch pasta has three square miles of surface area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afandian</author><text>Not much progress has been made on precise cooking instructions though. The more accurately the cooking time is measured, the longer it takes.</text></comment>