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• arin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Salt in pasta water does not affect taste

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is the best way of getting sauces to stick as well. The concentrated pasta water left over at the end is great for making mac and cheese for example. Much better than a few teaspoons of pasta water from a large pot as is usually recommended.

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      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That still sounds like a healthy serving of salt, definitely more than a few pinches.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yup. Don’t oversalt, but certainly add a healthy amount to the water. Some of that salt gets absorbed into the pasta, which gives it a richer flavor.

        I personally bring the water to a boil, add pasta, and then add salt (to keep temps as high as possible), but I highly doubt the order here matters at all.

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  • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Source? This seems almost impossible

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Breaking news! If you under-season your food, you won’t taste the seasoning!

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  • Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And she’d be right.

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