How to: Cooking Perfect Pasta in 10 Steps
Cooking perfect pasta is easy — here are 10 easy tips to get you there!
1. DON’T put oil in your water or on your pasta.
Adding oil to the water, or to cooked pasta to keep it from sticking will cause your sauce to slip off the noodles. You’ll also end up with greasy pasta, yuck. So, now that the don’t is out of the way, here are all the dos!
2. Fill your pot properly.
Use enough cold, fresh water that once the pasta begins to cook and expand, there will still be plenty of room for the noodles to move freely. You also want enough water to balance the heat once the pasta is added, allowing it to come back to a boil quickly. The rule of thumb is at least three litres of water to every 250g of pasta.
