Add a dash of olive oil to the boiling water. It won't fucking help, but at least you can fuck up pasta in new and interesting ways.
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ITT: I learn that a disturbing amount of people can't even boil pasta correctly.
What the fuck is wrong with people? It's the most basic shit, I don't understand how anyone could fail to do it wrong.
All the brain space went to open source software and political theory.
Lemmy loves beans, but a chili cook off from this group would be a god damn disaster.
I'll be honest. I did exactly this very recently. In my defense, I'm an okay home cook. I was constrained to a smaller pot than usual and way too desperate to still fit a full box of pasta in it.
Hydrate your pasta for an hour before cooking. Not only will it not stick, burn, or have undercooked bits, but it will fully cook within a minute. So you can just put it in your sauce directly and skip the boiling step.
Add salt to the water first
No, it's supposed to be sugar!
Your pasta stick because of starch. Luckily, they release the large majority of their starch in the first minute of cooking, so stir well during the first minute and make sure there's enough water in your pot.
Stir well once. I never need to interact more than 4 times / 20 seconds with the pot:
- Put water in and turn on heat
- Wait until water boils, then put pasta and salt into water (lower heat now so it doesn't boil over later)
- Wait 30 seconds, then stir once (i.e. make all the pasta stop touching for a moment)
- Wait until done, then take pot off and pour out
In addition to that, if you don't have a feeling for how long the pasta needs to boil / how done pasta looks, you need to sample a noodle now and again.
Just use whole wheat pasta.
Stir literally once. No salt, no oil, no additional stirring.
No salt?
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