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Barilla has eight Spotify playlists with music to time perfectly cooked pasta. Photo: AFP Relaxnews

Pasta brand Barilla is on hand to help everyone master the art of perfectly cooked pasta, with a host of Spotify playlists to time the cooking of its various shapes and forms of the kitchen staple. This music-based timer is sure to lift spirits in the kitchen while also ensuring pasta is properly cooked.

The Italian pasta brand Barilla and Publicis Italia have launched their "Playlist Timer" series on Spotify. The timer is essentially a curated selection of songs grouped together in different playlists of exactly the right duration to cook several types of Barilla pasta. It's an innovative and amusing way of managing cooking times while enjoying some sounds.