IF YOU PUT OIL IN YOUR PASTA WATER

[Chef]

I normally do my best to avoid cooking.
But if I have to cook pasta, all I use is a little salt and then I add a bit of olive oil after the water has been drained off the noodles or whatever.

DO NEVER, CHICA.

[chaosgraves:agentoferis]

40/40... don't tell.

[Bella]

I ate pasta for lunch today.
Mmmm......pasta.
Not going to tell you if I cooked it or not - and if I did cook it, I'm not going to tell you what I put in the water.

[~~~~Closed~~~~]

there's a cullinary purpose to putting oil in the water your using to cook water, I can't remember what it is right this second, but I know there is one.

[East Coast Hustle]

there's a cullinary purpose to putting oil in the water your using to cook water, I can't remember what it is right this second, but I know there is one.

No.

[~~~~Closed~~~~]

yes there is. my goldfish like memory prevents me from knowing what it is right now. but there is a purpose to putting oil in your pasta water.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

It's supposed to prevent the water from boiling over.

[Chef]

It's supposed to prevent the water from boiling over.

WRONG ANSWER.

IT IS TO PREVENT THE PASTA FROM GETTING STICKY.  COMPETENT CHEFS DON'T NEED IT.

[agent compassion]

I like my pasta extremely slippery, like a good orgy.


"What is this? Are we back in Nazi Germany? You all act like a bunch of Hitlers! Some of you even look like Hitler. Joe smells like Hitler. And Barney Rigley the postmaster colonel, he sneezes like Hitler."

[namu]

It's supposed to prevent the water from boiling over.

WRONG ANSWER.

IT IS TO PREVENT THE PASTA FROM GETTING STICKY.  COMPETENT CHEFS DON'T NEED IT.

Both wrong.

Oil in water does not change any physical properties of water so it boils the same, and unless you poured a gallon of it over the water it wouldn't prevent a boil-over (but then it'd make vapor bubbles form under the oil and explode, sending boiling oil all over, which is WORSE).

Oil in water does not make the pasta un-sticky. It does not even gets inside the pasta because pasta is polar in nature and repels oil. So it has no flavoring purpose and no un-stickifying purpose.

[cyberus]

eh, I'll do it anyway next time I make pasta.  Only because CHEF told me not to.

[gnimbley]

eh, I'll do it anyway next time I make pasta.  Only because CHEF told me not to.

*DING*

Right Answer!

[East Coast Hustle]

Putting oil on pasta after pasta is cooked: tasty and yummy

Putting oil in water with pasta while boiling: stupid, pointless, and a waste of good oil...

you are using good oil, right? Cold-pressed, extra virgin olive oil? none of this canola bullshit...

[Guido Finucci]

Oil in water does not make the pasta un-sticky. It does not even gets inside the pasta because pasta is polar in nature and repels oil.

<deeep breath> right, where to begin....



.... ah fuckit, it's not like it change anything. <sigh>

[Bella]

Putting oil on pasta after pasta is cooked: tasty and yummy

Putting oil in water with pasta while boiling: stupid, pointless, and a waste of good oil...

you are using good oil, right? Cold-pressed, extra virgin olive oil? none of this canola bullshit...

Grandpa had an Italian restraunt/bakery for about 50 years and I spent a lot of time there,
so even I know that the only oil to have in a kitchen is cold-pressed, extra virgin olive oil.

And he never added oil or butter to the water when he boiled pasta.
He kept a spray bottle of olive oil and sprayed a little bit on the pasta after it was cooked.

I would kill for some of Grandpa's homemade ravioli right about now.