Comment on Anon needs cooking advice

• Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What the fuck? Boiled garlic and bacon?

  Get the pancetta nice and crispy in the pan, add the garlic in the final minute before finishing. Add your pasta (2 minutes under al dente) fresh out of the water into the hot pan with as much carry over liquid as you can, toss like your life depends on it (it does.), cut the heat, then add your mixed yolks, parm and fresh black pepper. Allow the carryover heat to thicken the sauce along with vigourous stirring to get the starches emulsified with the egg and cheese. Add more cracked pepper to your taste. Maybe a pinch of crushed chilis. Add pasta water and stir to reach your desired texture.

  Don’t fucking boil your bacon and garlic.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What i meant; fry them first a bit, then cook the spaghetti with so it takes the taste on.

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  • Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You explained this so much better than my attempt, and with a well balanced amount rage 🤌

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  • itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pancetta?! Guanciale. But pancetta’s OK too if it’s all you’ve can get.

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    • Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I figured Pancetta was the more readily available ingredient. Nonna always used Pancetta anyway.

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      • itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Def. Just don’t boil it. Hahah

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• engagewithzorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No

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  • Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think (hope) they are just describing this wrong, rather than adding bacon to boiling water at the beginning.

    The sauce for carbonara is just some of the (salty) pasta water and egg yolk.

    Cook the pasta until just before al dente, then mix the yolks and (fried) lardons in the pasta for the final minute or two of cooking. Add parmesan as you like.

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