One man’s mesmerizing TikTok pasta videos led him to feed the hungry in his community.
Ryan Peters started out by creating a challenge for himself that involved him making pasta. “This is day 1 of a new series I’m starting, where for every batch of pasta dough that I make in this series, the amount of egg yolks are going to double every single time,” he explains in his TikTok video. “In my head, I was going to make it to 512 eggs. That was going to be my cap. And clearly, here we are at over 2,000. So, I did not listen to myself.”
Ryan continued to double the eggs in his pasta-making videos, and the amount of pasta became overwhelming.
“When we had 512 eggs, that’s when I was like, man, this is way more pasta than me or my friends or family need or want. I was like, man, this could be a great opportunity for me to give back,” Ryan shared.
“I got in contact with this organization called ‘Outreach Arms’ that basically just takes food donations from all sorts of places and then just distributes them to the people in the city. They will literally walk around downtown at times and just hand out food to the people that need food. So, for that 512 batch, I teamed up with them and brought them a bunch of food. After that, I’ve been able to connect with other organizations as well.”
Ryan has been able to make so many delicious pasta meals for people in need, and he says that nothing beats the impact that you feel when you give back to your community.
“Obviously, this doubling egg series can’t go on forever, but I think that the impact that I give can. Give back to my community in whatever way, just because of how inspired I’ve been through this. I think that has to continue, and it will continue.”
What a creative way to do something that he loves to do while blessing others!