• yggdar@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Do you cook your pasta in a large pot, with plenty of boiling water, and a good amount of salt? Usually I just stir once just after putting the pasta in, and I never have noodles sticking together.

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      1 month ago

      It depends on the pasta (form, freshness, self-made… etc). Some has to be stirred 3-4 times others just once, in my experience.

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      1 month ago

      My pot would have to be 3x its size to fit the amount of water a single package of pasta says I should use.
      1kg to 10l
      Do you have a bathtub in your stove?

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        1 month ago

        As others have already said, that is a lot of pasta. If you regularly cook volumes like that, it would really make sense to invest in a large pot as well. A cheap 10l pot will do just fine for boiling pasta, and it sounds like you would get plenty of use out of it.

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        1 month ago

        1 kg of dry pasta is enough for 10 people! Do you often cook for that many people? (Genuine question)

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          This is making me chuckle, because I just did this last night for a dinner party. It was a hell of a lot of pasta for 7. I kept it moving, even in my big stock pot. Only a few strands stuck to the bottom. We have leftovers.

          I usually cook a quarter of that for the two of us, sometimes half if I want to eat for a couple of days.

          2lbs/1 kg is a lot.

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          I have a 12 gallon pot I use for the same.

          If it didn’t have the spout off the front I’d probably use it for a lot more stuff like huge batches of chili (for canning). I end up using multiple pots for that instead because I don’t want to have to clean around the dumb thing.

          But the drain tube makes it soooo easy to strain the broth.