What’s the point of having oil on top of the water?
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DeLancre@piefed.social 2 days agoI would also advise to add just a bit of olive oil
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
No clue, but oiling the pasta after it comes out
- Makes sauce adherence worse, so don’t do it
- Makes them able to lie around longer without clumping together
So instead, just plate and coat with sauce immediately instead of waiting.
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
You can just take the clumpy pasta and add a bit of olive oil afterwards, works too
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No, you’ll fuck up how the sauce adheres to the pasta.
DeLancre@piefed.social 1 day ago
I was making the joke, but if you want to be picky — fight this guy, not me
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t have to fight him. Most of the people in the comments are already doing it.
I guess to clarify, if you want your pasta not to stick, coating it in oil will stop it from sticking, covering it in telfon would do the same thing. The problem is what are you doing with the pasta after you cook it. You might get away with olive oil if you’re combining it with pesto, but you do that to a red sauce or an alfredo and you’ll end up with a bowl of sauce and oily noodles that did not combine well.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe you just put too much oil on, I make 6 lbs of pasta at a time once or twice a week at work and I’ve never had an issue with sauce not adhering. And I cook in a senior living center, if there’s an issue with the food, we hear about it. You just need enough oil to coat them, they shouldn’t be swimming in it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
It depends. If you’re putting the sauce on immediately then you don’t need the oil, but if you’re gonna wait and do it at serving time then I find a light coat of oil is worth it to keep from sticking.
Granted, I tend not to do red sauces. Pesto and cream-based sauces tend to do fine though.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Yeah, when doing non-oily sauces, just add the sauce immediately instead of ever adding oil.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
What if you want to serve it buffet style with more than one choice of sauce? Like at a catering event or something