breaking spaghetti like this IS a crime. the little pieces fly everywhere. everyone should know to just push the unopened box against the counter edge to keep from making a mess.
You don’t even need to be Italian to understand the logical flaw in breaking spaghetti. There are countless forms of pasta, in varying shapes and sizes. Why buy a long pasta, like spaghetti, only to break it into shorter pieces? Just buy Fideo cut.
If you want spaghetti, but don’t own a large pot, just buy or make fresh spaghetti. It’s softer than dried spaghetti, so it will go right into the water no problem.
You could also just let half of the noodle cook in the water a bit to get soft as you press the rest in and it'll curve until its all submerged, then you can add your Vienna sausages and ketchup to finish it off
I only ever buy one noodle per shopping trip, but it's always a football field long. I get 100 of my friends to help me get it home, and if anyone fucks up and breaks it in the middle, I make them watch me eat fried rice with a fork or drink tea steeped in the microwave or put ketchup on a filet mignon, whatever bothers them the most.
I cannot imagine for one nanosecond that the MOST ITALIAN MAN EVER (aka Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito) would break his pasta like some sort of savage.
Food generally cooks from the outside in. Pasta, especially spaghetti, has a pretty thin diameter so it doesn't really matter how long it is, as long as it's submerged. That bit where it has to wait a minute to become pliable enough to fit in the pan is trivial. It will always cook surface to core faster than end to end comes into question