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[+] 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (13 children)
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[–] 22 points 1 month ago

Add a dash of olive oil to the boiling water. It won't fucking help, but at least you can fuck up pasta in new and interesting ways.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Add salt to the water first

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    [–] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    ITT: I learn that a disturbing amount of people can't even boil pasta correctly.
    What the fuck is wrong with people? It's the most basic shit, I don't understand how anyone could fail to do it wrong.

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Just use whole wheat pasta.

    Stir literally once. No salt, no oil, no additional stirring.

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Your pasta stick because of starch. Luckily, they release the large majority of their starch in the first minute of cooking, so stir well during the first minute and make sure there's enough water in your pot.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Stir well once. I never need to interact more than 4 times / 20 seconds with the pot:

    1. Put water in and turn on heat
    2. Wait until water boils, then put pasta and salt into water (lower heat now so it doesn't boil over later)
    3. Wait 30 seconds, then stir once (i.e. make all the pasta stop touching for a moment)
    4. Wait until done, then take pot off and pour out

    In addition to that, if you don't have a feeling for how long the pasta needs to boil / how done pasta looks, you need to sample a noodle now and again.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Serious comment on a shitpost community, but the easiest fix I found to pasta that sticks too much was to just buy better quality noodles. The cheapest stuff would stick like nothing else, while Barilla or any pasta cut on bronze dies never did.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Barilla isn't a better quality pasta. Change my mind

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (15 children)

    Italian here. Barilla is considered the bare minimum. Its not a high quality pasta, although they have a bronze cut kind which I never tried.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    The Al Bronzo brand of Barilla does taste better, imo, but not worth the extra cost. I've never had a problem with the regular stuff sticking as long as I salt the pot and stir occasionally.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Oh no, absolutely. I realize in hindsight my wording implies that. As someone else commented here, I also consider them the bare minimum. Anything less than that and it's awful noodles with no sauce adhesion or starch released.

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    [–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (3 children)
    1. get water boiling
    2. add salt+oil or stock
    3. then add pasta
    4. boil until it's not yet mush

    = no sticky

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Use a decent quality pasta, stir once. No oil needed.

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