How to Boil Pasta

Hey , everyone and welcome back to another how to episode today .

Chef is gonna show us how to boil pasta .

Now , as simple as this does sound chef has a lot of tips and tricks he wants to share with you to make this even easier than you may think .

So , without further ado , let's go ahead and get started .

So chef chef wants to show us some of the past we're doing .

We have one cup of elbow macaroni , two cups of rigatoni and one quarter pound of thin spaghetti .

These are the three pastas we'll be cooking up .

The very first tip is to use cold water .

You want a cold water because warm or hot water can go through your pipes , pick up sediment , heat up the pipe , break down sediments and or bad tasting sediments and get those in the pot .

Whereas cold water will not also , you want to fill your pot with more than enough water to cover the pasta .

So when it boils , it won't boil below the pasta .

Go ahead and put your pot on the stove and start to heat it up to a boiling point .

Our second tip is salting now , salting adds flavor .

It also raises the temperature of the boiling point a little bit and some people say that it does help boil faster .

We've also seen the team is seeing that it doesn't .

So we're kind of on the fence about that .

However , once it comes to a boil , go ahead and slowly add your pasta in there , it goes over its own .

The next one is oil and chef likes to add oil to the pasta to keep it from sticking .

However , some critics say don't add oil because it will keep the sauce from sticking to the pasta , which we're not perfectly sure on yet , but that's up to you .

Now , chef's just gonna go ahead and take a quick step back and he's gonna throw some spaghetti in this pot because he wants to show you that spaghetti or long strand pasta is a little bit different than shorter .

You wanna put it in and let it sit for about a half , you know , half a minute to a minute .

So it warms up and then just slowly turn it in until it's fully submerged and then continue on the process .

Chef want to do this side just for you though , to show it's a little different .

However , once your pasta is fully submerged , you want to bring it back up , you know , to a boil and then turn it off .

So when your pasta is boiling , go ahead and put the lid back on , you know , turn it off and then seven minutes after about six or seven minutes , check the pasta some , it's a little bit thicker than others .

So you wanna just , you know , play it by how you like it .

Some pasta is also cooked with other dishes .

So you may want it more dente , a little crunchier after the seven minute mark or however you feel comfortable , we're gonna drain our pasta .

So take your pot of water and pasta off , put it in a strainer and then the tip , the chef likes to let everyone know is shake it a little bit , get the water out , but then go ahead and take that strainer and just put it right inside the pot and I'm sure a lot of people know to do this .

This will allow you to work with the pasta while the water continues to drain .

We didn't want to throw any sauce or anything in here because we wanted to show you how to do the pasta .

But here you can do things like add your sauce butter and as you can see there , the pasta is nice , uh perfectly cooked about seven minutes , but you can add your butter or different , you know , different things here and there it is .

There's our rigatoni and then our elbow macaroni and all chef added to these three with just a little bit of oil on top to show you and then our thin spaghetti .

Thank you .

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Don't forget each pasta is a little bit differently .

Like angel hair is a very light pasta .

You gotta be careful uh thicker rigatoni like we cook today is a little thicker .

So you gotta be careful in the times , but definitely check out the description below .

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