Cooking pasta is easy as long as you remember certain basics.
1. Salt
If you want pasta tasty, be sure to add salt to the boiling water. A good touch of salt in the boiling water will raise the taste of the pasta to a new level.
2. A lot of water
Use a large boiler. In a large saucepan, in plenty of water, the pasta has room to ripen, which prevents the pasta from sticking to each other. The pasta boiled in too little water easily transmits into one big lump.
3. Forget the oil
Do not add olive oil to the boiling water. The oil does not hurt the pasta soup in any way, but it remains on the surface of the water and is wasted there. Additionally add high quality olive oil to the finished pasta dose.
4. Take advantage of boiling water
Don’t throw away all the boiling water. During the boiling, the pasta is dissolved in the boiling water, which makes the boiling water cloudy. It is not advisable to throw this water completely away, as the starchy boiling water gives the pasta sauce a wonderful composition. So save a drop of water and add it to the sauce.
5. Do not rinse
Know when rinsing is worth it. If you serve the pasta with the sauce, you should not rinse the pasta after cooking. The sauce is better adhered to the sticky pasta. If, on the other hand, you are making a cold pasta salad, it may be worth rinsing. Namely, rinsing keeps the pasta loose and cools the pasta.