Howdy fam, I gotta say DEFINITELY do this in a cast iron pan- I've made the pasta 3 times since shooting this video and cast iron is the best way, bar none. So, we're all going to agree to believe in the first story behind this pasta, right? Also, What should I make next?!

Hey! Just as a vegan Italian girl, I loved see you try out this recipe. I make this pasta a lot and every time I think “I bet Americans would like this frying, garlicky one pot pasta” hahaha One tip I might give you if you want to make it in the future is that if you want that “burned” effect you should add first the oil the garlic and the spice, then just a bigger proportion of actual tomato sauce and the spaghetti and let them in there till they get a little bit burned and than add the watery sauce. This way tue pasta gets the right texture and an almost smoked flavour. I hope this might be helpful!

The process looks so wrong, but the end result looks so right! Seriously, that swirl of pasta at the end belongs in an Italian restaurant!

LOVED the close-up framing of adding each ingredient combined with overlay of text, and font choice was perfect! 👌✨ YES.

I've always wanted to see someone trying this recepie. Thanks, have a grate day ❤️

I didn’t have any pans that weren’t nonstick, so I just went ahead and used a nonstick pan. Then I realized when it was too late that I didn’t have any tomato paste, and substituted ketchup. Still turned out very good, and even with the nonstick pan I still got the burned flavor filled crispy parts. It was good!

Thanks for cooking this - it is such a fun recipe! You should checkout Pasta Grammer for more Italian dishes - while they are not all vegan - they have some great options! (Also- love it if you could do another "crime and cook" - those were so fun!)

ohhh this looks really good!!

Another good thing you can do is fry pasta in oil get good fried pasta flavors THEN add the oil at the end just to heat it up so it also doesn't loose to much flavor (unless your trying to reduce to enhance flavor from seasoning etc)

Merle all happy and excited "I burned it!!" 😂

If you stir it less, it will caramelize faster. Moving the pasta around too often prevents this.

LMAO "I BURNED IT!" Sounded so excited. Looks so good. I'll have to try it.

I am DROOLING. How have I never seen this on TikTok? I eat pasta like, daily LOL. I need to try this!!! Thank you for this vid Merle :)

Love your vids! Sweating and flushing of a patch of skin near the ear that occurs when someone is eating. Frey's syndrome is a rare complication of surgery or an injury of the salivary (parotid) gland in the cheek. Symptoms include sweating and flushing on the cheek, temple or near the ear, particularly when eating foods with more intense flavours, such as sour, spicy or salty foods. Various treatments have been tried, but their effectiveness is limited.

Haven't finished watching but from experience I can tell you this works a lot better with a non-stick pan!

I love Italian vegan food, my favorite. ❤Great story about how the recipe had been created, a great example of the left hand path. 😎Yes, "cacophony" could be used to describe my early compositions. 😛

I used to do this everytime I was making Mac & cheese and got stoned before I took it off the stove.

OMFG - I'm so glad you said the thing about sweating when eating sour stuff. It happens to me when I eat kiwi. I start sweating on my upper lip and under my eyes. WHAT IS THAT!?!

Yes i sweat when there is the slightest acidity in my food even though it might not particularly be sour sour to my taste buds. Even more so that when i eat something spicyy

I literally made this last night🤣🤣🤣 i make it all the time its my new favorite. I usually cut up any tomatoes that are in the house too. And i use a lot more garlic😂

A pasta video is always a good video ❤🤌🍝

I usually don't have a food recipe request because I only ever eat the same three things lol BUT I actually have one today!! I am vegetarian, have been for like 15+ years. I was never a fan of sea food but one I used to love was tuna! With just pasta; chefs kiss! I used to get vegan tuna (or tuno ad they called it) and it was soooo good and it was very spot on! But it seemed to have been discontinued or something and I've really been missing it. So I'd love to see your take on how to make a home made vegan tuna! Please consider it? It'd make my day!! Anyway, as always love you and your content, can't wait for the next one!! 💙💙💙🐟🤣❤️

I love this pasta. I made a version of it for non-vegan family and it went over well. I love how it's easy to add in things in to the pan partway - chopped up olives or broccoli, or spinach, or peanuts.

This looks really good ❤

The plants! i love the plants in the shot!

Aria’s performance as the burnt edges of the pasta? Immaculate

This looks really good. Pasta is amazing and great for night in of streaming a movie and eating on the couch. I wonder if you can make a cream sauce with vegan cream cheese and do this. And on that note, I wonder what else can be made with cream cheese.

Ah, if the recipe wouldn't be so stressful I would do it more often. I prefer using short grain rice and applying the same technique, so a very basic paella in my case! You should also try blooming freshly ground black pepper instead of using garlic or using a solution of pimenton instead of the tomato broth. The former gives a nice savory sensation which goes well with the sweet tomato, the latter is even more savory, spicy and smoky.

Basically the man who was distracted when he made the pasta screams ADHD.

I don't have TikTok but this recipe has been a household favorite since Chef John made it on Food Wishes about a month ago. I wonder if he was reacting to the TikTok trend, or if he started it?

This literally every meal I make - burnt but original

Ah Spaghetti all‘ Assassina one of my favorites.🤤

Love the pasta queen

You should try the version by Pasta Grammar. If they used meat you can likely make adjustments, I don't remember the specifics of the recipe. I just love the channel Pasta Grammar.

Eva at Pasta Grammar made this a while back and it looked tremendous but I didn't try it at the time. Maybe I'll go for it now that you've done it

Check out Pasta Grammar for italian recipes. They're not vegan, but you could try to veganize them. They made pasta all'assassina so at least that's a real italian recipe! 😊

If someone could make this for me, they’d be speaking my love language. I burn things too much by accident to do this on purpose and I’m scared 😂

You need to try it in Bari!!! Come here and I'll tell you the best place where to eat an assassina 😉

FINALLY! A good ol' pasta recipe: this is the kind of vegan cooking I can "digest." 😉 P.S. I still think that a recipe for spaghetti with garlic & oil would suit you perfectly: it's the simplest thing in the world.

Me with acid reflux dreaming I could eat this 🥲 It looks so good!

Tictac 😸 I ammmmmm gonna try this recipe 🔥

I don't sweat when I eat foods with acid but I also have a weird thing. When I eat spicy foods they make my scalp itchy. Like really itchy. And only my scalp. Hahah

this isn't a tiktok recipe btw. It's a real italian recipe that's been cooked for decades

Thats right up my alley🥹🌱 I sweat from acidity too, when I eat multiple kiwis for example🙋🏼‍♀️🫰🏼

We like a really caramelised version of this. Had no idea it was on TikTok!

It’s basically Mexican fideo but we cook the noodles first in oil and onion and garlic

I have that same sweating issue when I eat sour foods too!

🤣 I’ve accidentally done this before. I love tomatoes and garlic! However, my hernia doesn’t so it makes that known with horrible reflux.🥴

This goes against everything my (non Italian) brain tells me to do but I want it so much! Definitely going to try it!!

Bravissima!!!!! ❤

The pasta queen did it again ❤

Have you seen the movie Life of Pi? It's similar to the story of the pasta.. he tells 2 tales, and you are left to believe whichever one you want. Reading the book changed my life for the better like a decade ago, in the same way I'm sure trying this pasta will. 👼🏾👍🏾

I saw this on Chef John's channel. Especially for non-vegans, it's definitely something that does not need cheese at all since that starch thickens it up really nice. I've made this a few times, but it does take some time.

My last meal is and always will be spaghetti and tomato sauce! Vegan meatballs too! ❤

Who knew burning spaghetti was a fancy cooking technique? I've been doing that for years because I can never remember to pay attention to it.

It’s no TikTok-Pasta but a recipe from Bari!

A trick I learned from an Italian is that you can reduce the tomato acidity by adding a tablespoon of either honey or brown sugar! ❤

I wonder if the iron flavor makes a significant difference

If it’s perfect, why would you give it 8.8? What made you take off those 1.2 points?

My bf likes this dish and approved it

Shoutout to Eva and Harper from Pasta Grammar! I’m pretty sure they kick started this recipe in the States.

Imma go ahead and subscribe to this channel now.

SHE sold me garlic and tomato Yes please 🥺🥺

Merle the sweating you’re getting may be from the acidity of the tomatoes. You can combat that by adding a little bit of sugar or baking soda to your sauce. That’s what my grandma always did!

FYI tomatoes are highly acidic and will ruin the seasoning on your cast iron pan, making the nonstick-ness go away.

what is the recipe?

recipe anywhere?

Y’all😂 Italians don’t care if you do stuff wrong it’s those french that hates when you make their baguettes not sheer enough💀

I bet you could do this easier in a wok

OH MY GOD I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE SWEATING FROM ACIDIC FOOD :O

I thought tomatoes weren't good for cast iron

About 90% sure I've made this accidentally before.

What is this, a portion for ANTS? (will try this asap tho)

I don't know if I could handle the taste of burnt sauce or burnt pasta.... I've done one pot pasta before, but not like this.

i also sweat when eating sour things

NO BOIL? 5:24 that looks like boiling to me.

I love the pasta Queen she's just gorgeous just like you are and anyone who's the fan will know what I'm talking about all right chica I know you're vegan and since you've done a lot of vegan bacon recipes what's your spin on her carbonara I eat hello so I don't eat pork bacon but I do eat bacon nonetheless and because the carbonado sauce is so flavorful I had a carbonara twist to all my recipes including ravioli so I'm very curious to see how a vegan would spend the possibly carbonara you game all right everyone take it easy be well peace out Girl Scouts 💃🐶🥰💕🥸 🙏🌎💚🌍💚🌏🙏

Me, highly allergic to tomatoes watching this whole thing like 🤔🧐✍️ cast iron, burn the pasta.

So risotto with spaghetti rather than rice.

A high dose of vitamin C can make you start detoxing through sweat.

There's been tonnes of viral recipes that are accidentally vegan. I run across them pretty much all the time I run across a few of these recipes and I rarely ever look at viral stuff

Do you have GERD? Maybe that’s causing the sweats?

I guess you meant symphony, not cacophony. Also screw people coming into comments and saying "this is the right way, that is wrong, this is wrong". Cooking is a living thing. All the authentic dishes evolved over decades or centuries, and every region makes them different. The internet trend of suddenly deciding 'this is the only true recipe' is antithesis to good and fun cooking.

I'm Italian, I use Ragu 😁

God it hurts to see people call this TikTok pasta..

Sorry if I missed a chapter but did Merle and Aria break up??

Eating anything vinegary makes me sweat

Well, if opinionated Italian ppl want to be taken out of the equation as the common annoying denominator - all they gotta do is complain about EVERYTHING... then their opinion stops mattering.

bro dont use garlic from a jar

The only thing I don't like about this is that when you give it your rating of 8.8, you don't elaborate on whatever it was you thought could have been done better. Which is not to say that 8.8 is a bad rating, obviously. But you clearly think there's SOMETHING about it that knocks off a point. Some of us would like to know what that is.

not woth it

You're one of the most beautiful woman I ever saw.

oh my god!! i was screaming thoughout the whole video STOP TOUCHING YOUR HAIR WHILE COOKING

calling a traditional italian cuisine a tiktok pasta is a crime

Don't call it TikTok Pasta, wtf.

The sweating thing sounds like some type of allergic reaction

Pasta Grammar showed this technique on their channel over 2 years ago. I adore your channel but please don’t call it TikTok pasta!

Please just watch Pasta Grammar, Vincenzo's Plate, or Adam Ragusea if you're trying to make this dish. Pasta Grammar was one of the first to revive this dish in the states. Vincenzo is KZfaq's resident Italian snob. Adam Ragusea puts a lot of science into the "why" and the techniques of the dishes he makes. Or at the very least wait until Merle uploads an updated video of her cooking the dish correctly. No hate on this channel, but this doesn't do the dish justice.

"tikTAWK" No. It's not because you're 30. It's because you have a Jersey girl in you aching to get out. lolol

Tik Tok pasta… honey this pasta is older than your gramma…