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Aug 14, 2019 | 3:45 am
#331
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The only reason you get soft pasta in a restaurant is because it was deliberately overcooked.
...and this is why. An appalling number of people also cook pasta without salt in the water.
Aug 14, 2019 | 5:21 am
#332
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Not for standard wheat pasta. It takes 2-3 minutes to get from al dente to soft and for most shapes no one is going to notice an extra 30 seconds, which is an eternity in a busy kitchen with a chirping timer.
The only reason you get soft pasta in a restaurant is because it was deliberately overcooked.
...and this is why. An appalling number of people also cook pasta without salt in the water.
The only reason you get soft pasta in a restaurant is because it was deliberately overcooked.
...and this is why. An appalling number of people also cook pasta without salt in the water.
Aug 14, 2019 | 6:55 am
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Aug 14, 2019 | 10:15 am
#334
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Aug 15, 2019 | 7:07 am
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