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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Add butter to pasta after boiling. Wtf?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Big brain move right here

Emulsions are weird.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months 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 11 months ago