Sometimes the dinner table needs a little fun. It doesn't matter if you have kids or not, this trick for dying cooked pasta is simple, eye-catching and makes mouths happy.
Ali (from Gimmie Some Oven) had a simple idea: cook pasta, rinse to cool, toss it into zip top bags with food coloring inside, then rinse your pasta once more. The result? Colored noodle explosion! What a fun idea for kids, or just very playful adults! Check out the full tutorial below.
→ Read more: Easy Rainbow Colored Pasta from Tablespoon
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sorry, but this looks like a bowl of rubber bands
Sorry, that looks a little too much like extruded Play-Doh to me. Blech.
Yes, but I bet my nephew would love it!
Do we really want to add extra dyes and additives to our children's food???
I don't think anyone is suggesting you do this every single night, but for a fun dinner every now and then I think this is awesome! If you're that concerned about food coloring (which is in basically every processed food we consume, in addition to frostings on baked goods) then there are all-natural options you could use instead.
It is a bit rubber-band or play-doh ish looking, but I think that's part of the fun! It's something different and unusual that a lot of kids would think was pretty amazing. I'll definitely be saving this for future reference.
next step: nyan cat spaghetti made of ravoli instead of a poptart.
That. Is. Awesome.
I agree with @spacemonkeymafia... It's a once-in-a-blue-moon fun treat! I've made roasted beet pasta with wonderful fuschia results...
Terrible idea!
We don't need more artificial this-and-that in our, particularly children's food.
They certainly don't need any weird looking pasta as an encouragement to eat one.
Back to nature please....
I wouldn't touch it but my first grader nephew would love it. I'd prefer that he substitute that pasta for his regular dose of Skittles (blame his parents for them, not me).
I like the idea of turning pasta maroon by cooking it in red wine! http://www.thekitchn.com/good-eats-12-80791
I bet you could do this with vegetable food dyes if you wanted to.
This could be a fun idea for a picky child.
Oh come on, this look so delightful! And there are bottles of natural food coloring at every Whole Foods. I'm just thinking that you'd have to be careful with any sauce or it could turn everything brown.
Somewhat OT, but this spaghetti looks like a very pretty method of coloring neurons in transgenic lab animals called Brainbow ( http://cbs.fas.harvard.edu/science/connectome-project/brainbow ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainbow ).
Also, if you're ever invited to a Gay Pride Day potluck, there's your recipe.
For the most part, what a bunch of sticks in the mud!
I love color. It's fun. As a kid, even as an adult, I'd pick this any day over the most amazing looking pasta dish. I use food coloring all the time baking and have zero qualms about coloring my and my son's food to high heaven if I like. I've cooked him all organic, homemade foods since he was born and I have no problem with this. Bigger things in life to worry about than a little food dye.
My son is just getting to eating with his hands and would LOVE this. I might go a step better and dye the pasta dough and make it myself so its not so much after-dyed as colored pasta.
Ok I think this is FANTASTIC.
As far as those saying not to feed our kids anything with dyes, I sort of agree, but then again, dyes never killed us. We're all still alive! People need to stop making their kids live in a bubble.
I think I am going to do this tonight while hubbs is away on work!