• Damage@slrpnk.net
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    I wonder wtf you guys do to your pasta, it’s like the easiest thing to cook… Boil water, add salt, wait for the time written on the box (or just look at it, you’ll see when it’s done).

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        If you don’t stir the pasta adequately after adding it to the pot that can make it stick together. Source: my husband does this all the freaking time.

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          Your stir at the beginning to ensure that each piece of pasta is properly engulfed by water. But after that there really shouldn’t be much need of stirring, the pasta moves around in the water on its own.

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            Sometimes I just hold the pot handle and swish it around slightly. Never had a problem with sticking. It seems like an infomercial problem.

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            Yeah, he usually just dumps it in and walks away. 🥴

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          I usually just snap mine in half, and throw it in boiling water with a bit of salt. I haven’t stirred pasta in years.

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        Also, if the pan isn’t large enough the pasta will stick I think. I say I think because despite having cooked pasta hundreds of times I’ve never had this happen lol

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            After cooking the pasta just short of done, many toss them in the sauce pan and let them finish cooking in the sauce for a more even pasta-to-sauce-distribution. Saves you the hassle of portioning your sauce.

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            Hmm I call the large “pans” that you boil water and make sauces in pans, but I assume you don’t in your country- presumably the USA? I’m not even sure what you would call them instead tbh

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      It’s a shitty pasta fault. Good pasta does not stick, simply boil water add salt put pasta in.

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      If you throw the pasta on the wall and it sticks, it’s done. If you don’t want to use the wall, use the inside of the microwave’s door.