Nine Ways You're Cooking Pasta Wrong

I use a strainer, not a colander.

I hate click-bait stories that use the headline, "You're [doing whatever] all wrong." How do you know how I'm cooking my pasta, bitch?

You can just ladle out some of the water if you are using it for something else. Leaving the pasta in the water may overcook the pasta. It should be cooked al dente. Limp, overcooked pasta is disgusting. People who eat cheap shit pasta can use tongs to grab the pasta out, and rip it into pieces

Why are those always jackasses who want to make everything harder and more complicated?

I use silver monogrammed tongs to remove the pasta from the water. They are from from Tiffany and Co.

See the DL is always right!

Are you a chef as well R3?

Or just a very knowledgeable home cook?

R2 agree wholeheartedly!

Fuck those You've Been Doing X All Wrong cunts. Nobody gives a shit what you think. You're 30 and you live at home and you have a useless masters degree in English and all you can do is write $40 stories about how to eat sushi "right", etc which everyone already knows because we all have Google too, dumbass.

R2 agree wholeheartedly!

Fuck those You've Been Doing X All Wrong cunts. Nobody gives a shit what you think. You're 30 and you live at home and you have a useless masters degree in English and all you can do is write $40 stories about how to eat sushi "right", etc which everyone already knows because we all have Google too, dumbass.

In the name of all that is holy, don't add sauce to your pasta, add the pasta to your sauce!

R6 has stated their boundaries.

Twice.

[quote]you’re losing all the cooking water—and that water is an important ingredient for a great dish.

Not necessarily.

It's not a given. Adding cooking water works with some sauces but not for all. If over used it can make the sauce gelatinous.

Also, pasta must be cooked in water that's well salted, adding cooking water can make the dish too salty. So you have to be careful.

I'm tired of everyone over-complicating everything and making it fucking 'artisinal'.

Over the top cocktails, expensive pasta, $8 for 5 brussels sprouts with parmesan - stop it already!

Can we please go back to simple, good food WITHOUT the fucking attitude and massive prices?

Grab a coffee mug, scoop out some pasta water in case you need it, drain pasta into colander. Done.

Of course, it has to be a REALLY GOOD coffee mug and a REALLY GOOD colander. You can taste the difference.

* fnart *

Ooh, smell Queen Mary of Teck at R4!

"Everything You Think You Know About Masturbation Is Wrong."

Pasta water is not needed or wanted with a good pomodoro sauce.... the author is WRONG!!

[quote] Are you a chef as well [R3]? Or just a very knowledgeable home cook?

It's pasta. It's not the cure for cancer. Are you under the incorrect assumption that only professional chefs know how to cook pasta? My Italian Grandmothers would laugh at this cook telling everyone they are boiling pasta wrong

I like my pasta al denture, R3

I just toss it in the instant pot with the meat and the sauce and it all cooks up nicely!

You're supposed to COOK it?

Oh, dear. Not a very flattering angle for our Chrissy.

"Kate Krader"

When you're making suggestions about "matzoh ball soup" I'll listen. I'll ask a real Italian about pasta cookery, thanks.

I liked how she saw that there is a buildup of starch solids in the bottom of a pot and that spidering the pasta out of the water and using some of the starchy water without disturbing the bottom of the pot was pure genius.

SMH at Jew-Haters like R22

They're not Krader's tips, they're tips from chef Missy Robbins.

So you would have been better off writing "When you're making suggestions about "velveeta cheese on white bread with mayo" I'll listen. I'll ask a real Italian about pasta cookery, thanks.

Pink triangles

[quote]Pasta water is not needed or wanted with a good pomodoro sauce....

True.

I grew up in a Jewish town (Newton, MA). Historically speaking Jewish people were called the people of the book - not people of the cookbook. Ashkenazi Jews don’t really have a traditional cuisine, they have deli food. In other words they would eat out.

I grew up hearing the joke, “What does a good Jewish housewife make for dinner? Reservations.”

Taking the pasta out of the water improves the taste about 1/1000 more.

It’s not worth the effort

Not to mention that whatever small difference in taste it might make is going to be canceled out by the addition of sauce.

To be fair, Missy (ugh - choose a grown up name) Robbins has an impressive background and trained and worked a lot in Italy.

However, she should have avoided being associated with this click-bait article. It does her no favors.

Meanwhile, the author must be close to 50 - she's not some young Brooklyn writer. She must be desperate. It's not the type of article you expect from a real writer - and apparently she is one.

If you want to see pasta made at home in Italy try some of these short videos.

This article reads like "The OCD Guide to Preparing Pasta." What goes into your sauce matters a hell of a lot more than whether you use a damned colander to drain the spaghets.

And not overcooking it.