Al dente

If you ever look up some recipes for spaghetti, you'll somehow come across the phrase al dente. It always goes like this: Cook until al dente. Well, there's a reason for it to appear in the context. And you got to be meticulous about the cooking time. Because if you don't, the pasta either get undercooked or overcooked. And Wikipedia says the pasta will then stick to your teeth when you chew it. That's bad. In terms of oral hygiene. Of course, most importantly, the satisfaction that you are craving for, will poof vanish right away at the moment when you take your first bite. It's all about timing, isn't it.