State secret

So, if someone could settle an argument my wife are having that would be great. I've tried googling the process, and I understand how ordinary spaghetti is produced, but I can't find a description of how the hoops are made. She says that the hoops are just spat out of the machine in a hoop shape? Whereas i think the machine has to essentially make penne or similar, and cut that up into thin bits to make the hoops.

Most likely extruded into a tube and then a rotating blade cuts them into rings as it is extruded out.

> She says that the hoops are just spat out of the machine in a hoop shape? Whereas i think the machine has to essentially make penne or similar, and cut that up into thin bits to make the hoops. You’re both right-ish. I’m curious how you think they make penne. Because the answer is not that they make penne and then cut it up. It’s that they make it the same way they make penne but cut it more frequently.

Well yeah... In my head it's a super long piece of penne, never ending I suppose, that's just sort of cut in very short bits to make the hoops.

They take regular spaghetti and curl it up into a ring then they use a shrink ray so they fit in the can.

But it's hoops that are perfect circles... Surely they wouldn't take spaghetti and fuse the two ends together.

Like they’re making a metal spring, but they cut each circle, maybe.