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[Gastronomy] Your Ten-Step Guide to Cooking the Perfect Pasta, Including How to Salt the Water - for Italians here, is this accurate? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To save you all a click and several paragraphs of useless text.

  1. Use a large pot.
  2. Fill the pot with cold water.
  3. Don’t skimp on the salt.
  4. Do not put oil in the pot.
  5. Wait until the water reaches a stable boil to add your pasta.
  6. Stir, stir, stir.
  7. Remove the lid.
  8. Keep time, and consistently test.
  9. Don’t pour all the pasta water down the drain. * Or do if you aren't making a sauce.
  10. Don’t rinse cooked pasta.
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What lid?

[–] RedBauble 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The lid of the pot. Keeping the pot covered makes the water boil quicker

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh, my pasta pot never had a lid with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

The pot lid