How Much Spaghetti Per Person?
For a main course, we recommend allowing 75g of dried spaghetti per person, or 120g if using fresh spaghetti. If we're serving pasta as a starter, we reduce these amounts to around 40g and 60g respectively.
How to measure spaghetti
There's a plethora of gadgets to help you measure how much spaghetti you need per person. Some are functional, some are ugly, and some are rather beautiful. They're undoubtedly more reliable than using the flawed 'cup size' system that American cooks' favour, but no number of gizmos can ever compete with digital kitchen scales. In fact, scales are the only way you'll find us measuring the weight of any ingredient.We like our spaghetti (and our linguine, fettuccine, and bucatini) to be al dente, so we always opt for dried pasta. Fresh pasta is great for some dishes, but because it has never been fully dried, there's simply no way to replicate that toothsome al dente texture you get with the dried alternative.