When to Know Your Pasta is Cooked – as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. Today we are going to make the perfect pasta. Some people make pasta that is too al dente, some that is too mushy. How do you make the perfect pasta? Well, you start first with a really big pot. Fill it with cold water, yep that is right, cold water – do not take a short cut and think I will use hot it will be faster to boil, no no, and I will tell you why. Cold water comes through the faucet clean, hot water has a greater tendency to dissolve things along the way. So if there is any kind of substances lining your pipes, maybe you have old pipes or dirty pipes, who knows, the hot water which dissolves some particles along the way and then it enters into your pot and you do not want that. So start with cold water, bring it to a boil, I have got that almost happening here, I can see steam coming off, I am moments away from a boil. And once it reaches a boil I am going to add a generous amount of salt – I mean generous, at least two tablespoons. First of all most of it is going to drain away in the water and a little bit of it will season our pasta, which is what we want. So I will add generous two tablespoons or so of salt to the water and make sure it is really boiling and then add all your pasta all at once. Stir it up and what is happening is that the water is so hot and boiling that it begins to cook and set the outside of the strands of the pasta, which is what you want. If you put into water …
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