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Why You Should Start Saving Pasta Water
Pasta water is the secret ingredient most people forget about. Here's why you should save it and use it in your next pasta sauce.
Cooking dry pasta is one of the easiest, most self-explanatory techniques of any cuisine. Even the most novice home cook can handle it. This famously easy task has more tricks than you thought—and saving the pasta water is one of them. However, it’s often one of the most forgotten steps. Look out for these 8 other ways you’re cooking pasta wrong.
Pasta water is the leftover liquid that cooked pasta was boiled in, and it’s filled with starchy, salty goodness. Although it may look murky and dirty, this stuff |
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is the key to a successful sauce, and to a beautiful pasta dish.
What to do with pasta water
After your pasta is done cooking, remove it from the pot using tongs or a pasta fork so your water is left in the bottom of the pan. That way, you can save as much or as little of the water as you want. I like to reserve about a cup of water per pot of pasta. Next, add the sauce to the pot of water and stir, then add the pasta. The starch content adds a silky richness to your sauce, and the salt content adds extra flavor.
The starch also acts as a thickening agent. This trick is what separates average pasta dishes from the delightful, complex dishes at your favorite Italian restaurant. It’s perfect for simple sauces like cacio e pepe, and it’s even better in slow simmered, meaty ragù. Next, don’t miss these 10 cooking tricks that are only taught in culinary schools. |
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A woman in Arizona has gone viral after her attempt at making heart-shaped macarons went hilariously wrong.
Emma Plummer, who runs her own baking business, was crafting the macarons in preparation for Valentine's Day but her designs ended up looking like something else.
"I tried to make hearts and they turned out like ballsacks," she wrote on Twitter. |
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Are you the type of person who throws anything that’s not dairy or fresh veggies in the pantry? You should really read this.
Tomato sauce
Your pantry may be stocked with tomato sauce you bought the last time there was a sale, but it always should go in the fridge after you open it. “In the old days, a lot of us used to keep tomato sauce in the pantry,” Lydia Buchtmann, spokeswoman for the Food Safety Information Council, told HuffPost Australia. |
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Stop what you’re doing. Put down that sad tuna sandwich. We have something important to announce.
We applaud innovation in all forms. Space travel. Vital health research. Desks that let you sit down and stand up. All great. All worthy of our time. But can any innovation measure up to the majesty of a pizza box made of pizza? We’re not so sure.
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