Look, guys,
You don't need all this fancy stuff. You just bring the water to
a boil, drop the broken up spaghetti in the pan, and test it with
a fork. Now while you're waiting, get out your strainer. When
the spaghetti is the right consistency, put it in your strainer,
How do you know when it's right? You catch a spaghetti with a
fork and taste it, of course. and go from there. It shouldn't
take much more than five minutes or so for cooking. Pasta pot?
give me a break. I haven't waisted my time buying one.
Brenda Mueller
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From: Paula and James Muysenberg via
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To: [email protected], Nicole Massey
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Date sent: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:43:18 -0600
Subject: Re: [CnD] spaghetti questions
Hi, all,
My name is Paula. I just joined yesterday, and am looking
forward
to learning from everyone. I've already gleaned some great tips
on
cooking spaghetti from y'all, even though I've been preparing it
for years.
I want to mention to Leslie, that if you have difficulty
cutting up
cooked spaghetti, as I do, you can break up the pasta before you
cook
it. I get a few spaghetti noodles in my hands, hold them over a
bowl or
plate, and break them into two or three pieces. You can do this
while
your water is heating. It doesn't take long, even if you're
making a lot
of pasta, because you can break up severl at once.
Paula
On 1/22/2015 9:09 AM, Nicole Massey via Cookinginthedark wrote:
I was told by the ex-boyfriend of a friend of mine, who was
wrong in just about everything else, that to measure spaghetti in
terms of number of people you grab a bunch of spaghetti in your
dominant hand, with your thumb and index finger circling the
pasta. If the ring puts your fingernail at the first joint of
your thumb that's pasta for one, the second joint is pasta for
two, and the end of your thumb is pasta for three. I've found
this works well. Some may say that this varies depending on how
big your hands are, but the assumption is that the smaller the
hands the smaller the appetite, so you may want to vary it a bit,
deciding if you want a loose or tight hold on the pasta.
The pasta pot uses less water than you think it does, so trend
your water level down a bit. Don't put oil in the water, as it'll
prevent the sauce from sticking to your pasta, and don't salt the
water until it's boiling or it'll take longer to reach a boil.
Sauce is a matter of preference, and it depends on if you want
the spaghetti drenched in sauce or if it's just a flavoring
element, and also on how much other stuff you choose to put in
it, like chopped up vegetables. I find that three or three and a
half minutes in the microwave is often enough to heat sauce, so
unless you're going for presentation you can heat it in the bowls
you're going to serve in.
And of course, YMMV, as in all things cooking.
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From: Cookinginthedark
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On Behalf Of Holly Anderson via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 8:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CnD] spaghetti questions
Hi all. Today Iâm going to attempt something Iâve never
done before,
spaghetti. I know its kind of sad. Iâm making spaghetti for 2
people.
I have a spaghetti cooker, it has a section with holes inside a
pot
that the spaghetti goes in. So when I lift the section with the
holes
out of the pot the water will drain from the spaghetti. My
questions
are:
1. How long do I cook he noodles?
2. This one is probably depending on how much we eat. but Iâm
not sure
how much to make for 2 people.
3. I have a jar of meat sauce, do I just put it in a pot not he
stove
and simmer, how long do I cook the sauce, and how much sauce for
2
people.
I know these questions seem basic, but Iâm new to all this.
And it
might just be a trial and error type thing, but Iâm kind of
nervous.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks.
Holly
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