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[-] Godort@lemm.ee 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Cooking pasta correctly is an art, but there are some basic rules to follow if you want consistent results.

If you want to avoid this situation in particular, take the pasta out just before it's done along with about 1/4 cup of the water and add both to your sauce and finish cooking the pasta there. You'll end up with pasta that is cooked perfectly with a sauce that readily adheres to each noodle and no stickyness

[-] stick2urgunz88@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

This is the way. Once I learned the pasta water trick, I never looked back.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net -4 points 11 months ago

Don't you just end up with shitty, watery sauce?

[-] AgnosticMammal@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago

The pasta water helps thicken the sauce and makes it more stickier, same way the cornstarch water slurry works.

[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago
[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 points 11 months ago

Let me rephrase: how do you NOT end up with shitty, watery sauce?

[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Well, you only use a bit of the pasta water, it depends how much tomato sauce you’re making.

Pull out about a cup of the pasta water.
Dump the pasta. Don’t rinse the pasta, ever.

Now either slowly pour in a bit of the pasta water into the sauce, stir it, look at it, there should be a sheen. The pasta water makes the red sauce very silky.

Or, take a frying pan, turn the heat on. Add butter and olive oil. When the butter gets melted, dump diced veggies (or not) into the pan. Cook the vegetables to almost desired tenderness. Dump garlic in for no more than one minute.
Dump some pasta water in, just a little, and throw the pasta on top. Mix it up. After a short time, 15 seconds maybe, pour the red sauce on top of the spaghetti and veggies, stir.
After about a minute or so, add pasta water, just a bit. Stir. Taste. Is it shiny and silky? If not add a little more water. Repeat until it’s tasty.

[-] Player2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago

Rinsing the pasta is fine for making a cold pasta salad or something like that, removing the free starch stops it from sticking. But for a dish with sauce, definitely don't rinse.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

The sauce itself should be quite thick before adding the pasta water. I let my bolognese reduce for at least an hour and a half before starting to boil water for the pasta.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Let the water evaporate, duh. You can also add cream or cheese to the sauce.

[-] u202307011927@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago

How much is one cup? A big one or a small one? I have several

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

237 mL. It's a US unit.

Edit: I just realized I have a 2-cup measuring cup and I've never noticed how weird that sounds until now.

[-] StalksEveryone@futurology.today 2 points 11 months ago

use the biggest one you have. fill it up to the top then throw that shit away.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago
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