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  1. I get that you can indeed do that, and it is faster. BUT, and yes, that is a big but, we don't want to watch and wait for it to boil and check for when it is cooked. We just want to get some water boiling, come back in 10 minutes, add the pasta, set the recommended time and do other things. Sure, it is great to know you can do the other thing, but we like setting timers and not being wrong or testing every time or having it overdone by a couple minutes because you were doing something else at the time.

  2. If you do that with high quality dry pasta, from bronze dies, that tends to have a lot of surface starch, letting it sit in cool water for several minutes while the water gets hot enough to cook the starch will utterly ruin the pasta.

    Doing it with fresh pasta is obviously a non starter as well.

    If energy use is a concern boil the water in an electric kettle or microwave first, which is far more energy efficient than a stovetop, then put the water into a pot and cook the pasta.

  3. To add to this,you don't need a massive pot of water for dried pasta. Literally add what water you think you need to submerge the pasta. And that's it.
    Wide shallow pan like a non stick frying pan works great.
    It'll develop more starch, which will emulsify the sauce muuuuch better than using a hundred litres will for a small amount of pasta

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