Comment on Anon needs cooking advice

• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well well, I am about to make mac and cheese for Thanksgiving.

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    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • Aksamit@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah, only one usually. And not a big one at that.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah the only rule I know is don’t add the salt to a cold pan with cold water as heating it up may cause it to damage the bottom of your pan. But adding salt at any point while the water is hot and you aren’t done cooking the pasta is pretty safe.

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• porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Source? This seems almost impossible

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago

    And she’d be right.

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