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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add butter to pasta after boiling. Wtf?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah, that's a thing. It keeps the pasta from sticking together

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't do that. It keeps the sauce from sticking to the pasta. Instead, mix the pasta with the sauce immediately after cooking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For extra fun preheat the plates with the water from the pasta. Additionally the pasta water can be added to most sauces to make them more thick.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also keeps the pasta from sticking to the sauce, which is usually the opposite of what I want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's when you put butter in the sauce to stick to the butter on the pasta.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Big brain move right here

Emulsions are weird.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

...until it cools and reforms into a solid mass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And it actually does keep them seperated! Unlike that myth that haves people keep wasting perfectly good olive oil to boiling water. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago