[Gastronomy] Your Ten-Step Guide to Cooking the Perfect Pasta, Including How to Salt the Water - for Italians here, is this accurate?
[Gastronomy] Your Ten-Step Guide to Cooking the Perfect Pasta, Including How to Salt the Water - for Italians here, is this accurate?
www.smithsonianmag.com Your Ten-Step Guide to Cooking the Perfect Pasta, Including How to Salt the Water
Following these pieces of advice from chefs will ensure tastier, more nutritional noodles for all
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To save you all a click and several paragraphs of useless text.
- Use a large pot.
- Fill the pot with cold water.
- Don’t skimp on the salt.
- Do not put oil in the pot.
- Wait until the water reaches a stable boil to add your pasta.
- Stir, stir, stir.
- Remove the lid.
- Keep time, and consistently test.
- Don’t pour all the pasta water down the drain. * Or do if you aren't making a sauce.
- Don’t rinse cooked pasta.
What lid?
The lid of the pot. Keeping the pot covered makes the water boil quicker
Oh, my pasta pot never had a lid with it.
The pot lid
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