Should you put oil in the water when cooking pasta?
May 25th 2010, 1:58 am
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Re: Should you put oil in the water when cooking pasta?
May 25th 2010, 2:03 am
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Re: Should you put oil in the water when cooking pasta?
What are you going to cook in it? I'd put a little oil in the bottom and swizzle some stuff around in there at a high temp.
It will impress the wife. Especially with lots of ginger.
May 25th 2010, 2:05 am
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Re: Should you put oil in the water when cooking pasta?
May 25th 2010, 6:23 am
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I read something that heating Olive Oil above the 'smoke point' is actually a bad thing. Breaks down the oil and does some damage to it, possibly even introducing some harmful side effects.
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May 25th 2010, 6:50 am
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Re: Should you put oil in the water when cooking pasta?
No self respecting Italian puts oil in the pasta water - and neither do they rinse it with boiling water from a kettle when it's cooked.
You need a large pan of salted, boiling water. It must be boiling. You put the pasta in and you give it a stir and swish it around in the water and it will not stick.
Drain the pasta quickly, tip back into the hot pan and add the sauce of your choice. Sauces like Bolognese, tomato etc. should have been heated first before adding to the pasta.
If you are making a cold pasta salad then you do need to put some oil on the cooked pasta, stir it and leave to cool down before adding mozzarella, tomatoes, basil etc.
You need a large pan of salted, boiling water. It must be boiling. You put the pasta in and you give it a stir and swish it around in the water and it will not stick.
Drain the pasta quickly, tip back into the hot pan and add the sauce of your choice. Sauces like Bolognese, tomato etc. should have been heated first before adding to the pasta.
If you are making a cold pasta salad then you do need to put some oil on the cooked pasta, stir it and leave to cool down before adding mozzarella, tomatoes, basil etc.
May 25th 2010, 9:56 am
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Re: Should you put oil in the water when cooking pasta?
No self respecting Italian puts oil in the pasta water - and neither do they rinse it with boiling water from a kettle when it's cooked.
You need a large pan of salted, boiling water. It must be boiling. You put the pasta in and you give it a stir and swish it around in the water and it will not stick.
Drain the pasta quickly, tip back into the hot pan and add the sauce of your choice. Sauces like Bolognese, tomato etc. should have been heated first before adding to the pasta.
If you are making a cold pasta salad then you do need to put some oil on the cooked pasta, stir it and leave to cool down before adding mozzarella, tomatoes, basil etc.
You need a large pan of salted, boiling water. It must be boiling. You put the pasta in and you give it a stir and swish it around in the water and it will not stick.
Drain the pasta quickly, tip back into the hot pan and add the sauce of your choice. Sauces like Bolognese, tomato etc. should have been heated first before adding to the pasta.
If you are making a cold pasta salad then you do need to put some oil on the cooked pasta, stir it and leave to cool down before adding mozzarella, tomatoes, basil etc.
Listen Lady just cos you live in Italy dont mean you know how to make better pasta. I live in the UK but I cant make a Yorkshire pudding or a Bakewell tart (I know one though). Anyway, if we REALLy wanted to know from an expert, we'd ask a Chinaman...after all the Italians nicked it off them at least that geezer that invented those mints did.
May 25th 2010, 9:57 am
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Re: Should you put oil in the water when cooking pasta?
Like than being so ****ing hot it would burn an inch wide hole from your mouth to your arsehole?
May 25th 2010, 10:00 am
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All that would carry some weight but for the first sentence...there are no self respecting Italians.
Listen Lady just cos you live in Italy dont mean you know how to make better pasta. I live in the UK but I cant make a Yorkshire pudding or a Bakewell tart (I know one though). Anyway, if we REALLy wanted to know from an expert, we'd ask a Chinaman...after all the Italians nicked it off them at least that geezer that invented those mints did.
Listen Lady just cos you live in Italy dont mean you know how to make better pasta. I live in the UK but I cant make a Yorkshire pudding or a Bakewell tart (I know one though). Anyway, if we REALLy wanted to know from an expert, we'd ask a Chinaman...after all the Italians nicked it off them at least that geezer that invented those mints did.
May 25th 2010, 12:40 pm
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Re: Should you put oil in the water when cooking pasta?
No self respecting Italian puts oil in the pasta water - and neither do they rinse it with boiling water from a kettle when it's cooked.
You need a large pan of salted, boiling water. It must be boiling. You put the pasta in and you give it a stir and swish it around in the water and it will not stick.
Drain the pasta quickly, tip back into the hot pan and add the sauce of your choice. Sauces like Bolognese, tomato etc. should have been heated first before adding to the pasta.
If you are making a cold pasta salad then you do need to put some oil on the cooked pasta, stir it and leave to cool down before adding mozzarella, tomatoes, basil etc.
You need a large pan of salted, boiling water. It must be boiling. You put the pasta in and you give it a stir and swish it around in the water and it will not stick.
Drain the pasta quickly, tip back into the hot pan and add the sauce of your choice. Sauces like Bolognese, tomato etc. should have been heated first before adding to the pasta.
If you are making a cold pasta salad then you do need to put some oil on the cooked pasta, stir it and leave to cool down before adding mozzarella, tomatoes, basil etc.
My husband and daughter insist pasta should be placed in cold water and then brought to the boil.
May 25th 2010, 12:42 pm
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Re: Should you put oil in the water when cooking pasta?
No never. You tell them I said so 