hey everyone and welcome back to another how-to episode today chef’s going to
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 wants to show us some of the possibly 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 saltine now salting adds flavor it also raises the temperature of boiling point a
little bit and some people say that it does help boil faster we’ve also seen
the team has seen 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 goes
the rigatoni 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 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 want to 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 want to just you know play it by how you like it some pasta is also cooked with other dishes so you may want it more al dente a little crunchier
after the seven minute mark wherever you feel comfortable we’re going to drain
our pasta so take your pot of water and
pasta off
put it in a strainer
and then the tip that 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
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 so much for joining us don’t
forget each pasta is a little bit
differently like angel hair is a very
light pasta gotta be careful uh thicker
rigatoni like we cook today’s a little
thicker so you gotta be careful in the
times
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