What do most amateur cooks do wrong while cooking a pasta dish?
These are the things I have seen most often. Not enough water. Pasta should be boiled in far more water than most people use. It should not just be covered in water, it should be completely submerged and able to swim freely in the pot. So, basically, double up the amount of water you use. Adding oil. Oil in the pasta water is an old superstition. It does nothing to enhance the flavor and does not prevent pasta from clumping. When you drain the pasta it just slicks it, making it impossible for the sauce to stick and be absorbed. Overcooking pasta. Pasta should have a bite. Do you see that white, pasty core in the maccherone on the right? That means that pasta is underdone. The very moment that core disappears your pasta is al dente. Not a second of cooking more. When you get that amount of core your pasta probably needs between 60 and 120 seconds more (yes, when cooking pasta you calculate in seconds). Then if it’s al dente or even just barely under you drain it. Do not forget, cooking
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