Mueller says drain

Is that from the unredacted report?

I regard this matter as settled.

I thought the original pasta controversy was about RINSING pasta when it was in the strainer, not just straining it.

R3 is correct.

OP is a moron.

Drain? YES.

Rinse? NO.

The original controversy, such as it was, was to do with do you drain the pasta or do you tong it out of the saucepan onto a place. No one then was talking about rinsing: are you new here?

No, R5, I've been on DL for 15 years.

R6 is new here, en effet.

Drain and retain

Drain the pasta into a bowl.

Set pasta aside

Add a small amount of the pasta water to the sauce.

Add pasta to the sauce

Dump remaining pasta water.

Quit yapping and eat.

[quote] Drain and retain Drain the pasta into a bowl. Set pasta aside Add a small amount of the pasta water to the sauce. Add pasta to the sauce Dump remaining pasta water. Quit yapping and eat.

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R4 OP is absolutely a moron. The bridge and tunnel crowd would call it “gravy,” just like their Staten Island “ma’s.” She’s an outer borough zero.

Mueller does not call it gravy. Mueller is nationwide. It is called sauce, thank God. We don't want your parochial expressions from little Sicily here, thank you.

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I just open a can of Chef Boyardee.

Heinz spaghetti rings avoid all these issues. They also come in a can for R13.

What does an American egg noodle company founded by a German immigrant know about cooking Italian food?

Because pasta is not Italian.

Pasta was brought to Italy by Marco Polo via China. Polo ventured to China in the time of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and the Chinese had been consuming noodles as early as 3000 B.C. in the Qinghai province.

Italian pasta is cultural appropriation.

R17 is right

So do the Chinese drain their pasta? Maybe we need to ask them for the final word on the matter.

I just ate my dinner of Amy's vegetable lasagna. the noodles were perfect - slightly al dente. And i didn't have to drain at all!

R20 is a Wallys whore.

Nope, r21 got it at my local market which is not a chain (although they do have another store about 8 miles away) - called Molsberry. They like to feature locally-produced food and Amy's headquarters/factory is in our city.

I suppose you also present dirty hole, right?

I will pray for you, you déclassé bastard OP .

Link to one of the original threads on the drain vs. tongs controversy? I remember reading a few of the posts and like the OP I remember them centering around draining the pasta in a colander vs. lifting the pasta out of the hot water with tongs.

[quote]I will pray for you, you déclassé bastard OP .

I will pray for R23, whose anal-retentive accenting suggests he douches for hours before even considering sex, then shits dirty water all over the sheets anyway.

[bold]Isn't draining in colander and lifting out with tongs pretty much the same thing?[/bold]

Why would one be better than the other? Especially because you're supposed to toss it in the sauce before serving anyway.

I've never heard this particular 'this-or-that' controversy before - nothing like rinse or don't rinse.

R26, the idea is that by using tongs you retain the pasta water and can add some to the sauce, where as straining it you are dumping the oh so precious pasta water down the drain.

Hence, my strain and retain method.

Trying to pick the last bits of pasta out of the water is a massive pain in the ass. If you strain into a bowl or another pot, you make quick work of it, while retaining the pasta water for use in the sauce.

This is one of those idiotic controversies that are created by the proliferation of lazy articles on social media like - You have been eating cheese wrong your whole life, and didn't know it.

You're not entirely wrong r3, the pasta battle spanned the spectrum from draining to straining to rinsing to tonging.

BEHOLD! The original thread:

So wait, are we supposed to be cooking pasta before we eat it?

[quote] Especially because you're supposed to toss it in the sauce before serving anyway.

You do NOT toss the pasta in the sauce. The sauce goes on top of the pasta served on a plate.

HuffPost say Mueller wong "For long pastas like spaghetti and fettuccine, you can just use a pair of tongs to move the cooked pasta to a saucepan."

^^ HuffPost is ridiculous.

Want to retain some pasta water? Use a glass liquid measuring cup, dip it into the water and the pasta is cooking or right when you turn it off. Voila—you’ve saved some “liquid gold” starch water. And then you can dump the whole pot into a colander in the sink and not have to worry about picking out all the pasta with tongs, for fuck’s sake.

So stupid.

[quote] dip it into the water and the pasta is cooking

as the pasta is cooking