Comment on Anon needs cooking advice

• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you forget to salt the pasta water, there’s no way of making it taste as if you had. And even if the salt dissolves well in the sauce, it won’t permeate whatever chunky things there might be in the sauce as if you’d salted a lit bit every step of the way. But yeah, it’ll be ok, even if it won’t be as good as it would have been. (I know you didn’t say it would be the same, just wanted to add).

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  • arin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Salt in pasta water does not affect taste

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    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It absolutely does. It will salt the noodles themselves, but you need a very healthy amount, not just a few pinches.

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      • Aksamit@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can use less salt if you use less water. I only add enough salt so that the water tastes as salty as broth.

        Also pasta cooks just fine in a shallow pan of boiling water, you only need enough water to cover the top of the amount of pasta your cooking. Remember to stir it a few times though, or it clumps up.

        This is the best way to cook pasta if you are poor and live in a damp/poorly ventelated building. Boiling litres of water per serving is inefficient and expensive, and it makes your kitchen mouldy.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yup. I grab my salt can and do about two sprinkle passes and it seems to turn out pretty good. It’s probably around a teaspoon (maybe more) per bag of pasta.

        Oh, and use a bit of that pasta water in the sauce, that helps.

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    • Xenny@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You just aren’t putting enough salt in? Literally made pasta two days ago and upon eating my first thought was “damn I almost oversalted the pasta water” because it was in fact, salty

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah you put salt in pasta water to change the properties of the water so it boils differently, not to flavor the pasta lmao

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      • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not really. Salt in the water is mostly for flavor, the raise in boiling point is so miniscule by the amount added it’s practically ignorable.

        Adding oil breaks surface tension so that it’s less likely to foam over.

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    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Source? This seems almost impossible

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If you put a tiny sprinkling of salt in it instead of making it “salty like the sea,” you won’t notice.

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    • Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t tell my Italian gf that, she’d hold it against you for eternity.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And she’d be right.

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  • algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I never salt my pasta water, and don’t miss it. It’s uncessary salt when the pasta and sauce have plenty anyway

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    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is the first time I wish I could tag people… you saltless heathen. /$

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