Comments on: You don't have to pre-boil pasta for baked dishes

By: Eran Williams

Eran Williams — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 07:56:34 +0000

What if, no, dont do this, and.... your food is always good. Instead of trying to figure out how to make this okay?

If you do this, your food might be too watery, MAYBE it'll absorb enough water. Maybe when the water is gone you'll have extra chewey pasta, maybe you'll have an over done dish. Who wants to roll the dice? Do you want your food to maybe suck? Or you could ignore adam this one time and have your food not suck all the time. all for the price of rinsing out a pasta pot.

IDK about you all, but if I only use a pot for pasta I rinse and wipe it, it doesn't need a real wash. BUt if that will break your life, and overly chewy food, or overly watery food wont, like... eat gross food and dont spend literally 30 seconds wiping out a pot. I'd rather eat good.

Adam is dead wrong here.

By: Zeemz

Zeemz — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 07:56:34 +0000

Idk, I'm a bit torn on this technique.. I think there's just too many variables.
Like.. to just barely cover the pasta in my big wide baking dish, I end up needing waaay more liquid than the pasta can absorb.
Maybe I messed it up somehow and probably should've used more pasta, but I've tried this technique twice now and it came out watery both times..🤷🏻‍♂️ It's prob my fault but just a heads up.

By: Wesley Damen

Wesley Damen — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 07:56:34 +0000

With lasagne i always wet the sheets no soak just wet them when laying them in the lasagne tray

By: Peter B

Peter B — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 07:56:34 +0000

I've stopped a boiling a few oven dishes. I have found that if there is enough liquid in the baking pan the liquid would cook any pasta bit or even eggplant.

By: gopher

gopher — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 07:56:34 +0000

Same applies to any grain-based dish. For example, thats how plow/pilaf is made. You put dry rice into it, and it cooks with everything else.

By: G Fuentes

G Fuentes — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 07:56:34 +0000

didn't get a chance to watch the video but are there any sly anti white comments he likes to put in to try to save his ass?

By: Ray-Ray Pacheco

Ray-Ray Pacheco — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 07:56:34 +0000

I didn't know that people didn't know this until a few years ago when a coworker complained about his mother-in-law boiling lasagna noodles before baking the lasagna. I had him repeat it to me a few times because i was certain i had misunderstood.

By: pev

pev — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 07:56:34 +0000

Well, I have only done a traditional Finnish "macaroni casserole" a couple of times (and it is good), and my recipe says first boil the macaroni as instructed in its packet. And frankly I feel more comfortable doing this because mixing cooked pasta with the minced fried meat and spices for baking is just more… comfortable and confident than doing it with hard uncooked pasta. And the one extra kettle to cook the pasta in and mix it with the other ingredients before dumping it in the oven dish is really almost no burden to wash 🙂

By: Hubertoser

Hubertoser — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 07:56:34 +0000

I Cook pasta in sauce for years. It makes no sense to Boil it separately unless you do not use a sauce.

By: Shear. Free 🇵🇸 Free Tibet Free Hawaï

Shear. Free 🇵🇸 Free Tibet Free Hawaï — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 07:56:34 +0000

If an Italian tells me to pre boil my pasta for baked pasta dishes I’m going to listen