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Is pasta hard to cook for a beginner? I'm learning to cook my own shit and I'm trying to bulk, pasta sounds cheaper than cooking mexican food and pasta is good for bulking, like all I ever cooked for a month was ground beef for my burritos but then I realized that cream cheese and sour cream aren't the same thing.

>> No.6804778

Can you boil water?

>> No.6804783

>>6804778
Yes. Do you just boil water, put some salt and toss in the pasta? Do you just put tomato souce on ground beef? That's all?

>> No.6804805

>>6804777

USE A FUCKLOAD OF WATER. Like a gallon. Seriously. Pasta needs room. Do not try and weasel your way out using a 1 qt pot. Use a BIG pot and PLENTY of water!

>> No.6804807

>>6804783
No, what you need to do is boil the pasta in the sauce. If you're preparing a sauce from scratch, then you'd need to boil your pasta in water while your sauce finishes, but if you're using canned sauce, it's designed to have the pasta boiled in it in the first place.

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>>6804807

>> No.6805040

>>6804783
yep
>boil water
>add pasta
>cook ground beef
>add sauce to beef
>wait
>drain pasta, add to beef
done

Even easier if you use something other than beef like canned tuna that you can literally just dump in.

>> No.6805045

>>6804777
>is pasta hard to cook
Please stay out of the kitchen for your own safety.

>> No.6805046

Make sure to break the pasta in half so it fits in the pot!

>> No.6805069

>>6804777

>Is pasta hard to cook for a beginner?

How did your mother not at the very least teach you to boil shit ?

>> No.6805072

>>6805046
and to never use a colander

>> No.6805073

Pasta is simple
> Add a lot of water to a large pot
> Add sauce to the pot
> Add your raw meat to pot
> Add Pasta to pot
> turn the heat on and COVER the pot
> cook for 6 minutes
> strain the contents of the pot
Eat and enjoy your perfect pasta

>> No.6805079

Always cook pasta until its really soft, like almost falling apart

>> No.6805162

>>6804777

Watch Gennaro Contaldo's videos on youtube for how to cook pasta and make easy, tasty Italian pasta dishes.

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>>6804805
>One qt pot

>> No.6805230

>>6805040
Needs onions and garlic too

>> No.6805239

>>6805046
If it is unbroken with half sticking out of the water won't it take time for the submerged portion to soften up enough for the slack to submerge the rest resulting in uneven doneness on 50% of the noodles?

>> No.6805245

>>6805239
Yeah buddy! That's why you have to break it in half!

>> No.6805253

>what is google

>> No.6805284

>>6805239
Just put it the fuck in as soon as one side gets even remotely hot the rest will easily slip into the pot

>> No.6805306

thx for reminding me nobody here can cook. why cook when you can just eat junk food righttt

and since when is sauce an ingredient and wtf is it ?

FUCKING AMERICANS

>> No.6805928

>>6804807

I prefer to boil the pasta until it's nearly done, strain it, and then put it into the sauce to finish.

>> No.6805946

>>6805928
gay and wrong

>> No.6805964

>>6805306
Fuck off

>> No.6805968

>>6804777
Get your ass over to America's Test Kitchen's website and watch one of their pasta recipes. Simple and free. They usually reserve some of the starchy pasta water before draining (scoop some out with a measuring cup or glass). If your sauce is too dry you add a bit of the reserved pasta cooking water back in until it is loose.

>> No.6806009

Here is how you actually cook pasta.

Step 1: Turn on the burner. THIS IS IMPORTANT. If your burner won't turn on, check your gas line and call your gas service provider. Many times if you're moving to a new place your provider simply won't have turned on the gas to your household. When it does go on, ensure that the flame is blue and clear (IE, that it doesn't put off any smoke directly). DON'T TOUCH THE FLAME. Now, once you've ensured the flame isn't going to go out unexpectedly, measure the heat of the flame. It should be many hundreds of degrees. If it's under 200 degrees, that's too cold. If it's over 1,000 degrees, you're probably using an industrial-grade stovetop at your workplace. Congratulations. Turn the heat down if that's the case. The flame should be no larger than the length of a small woman's big toe.

Step 2: Cook the pasta.

Yep, it's just that easy!

>> No.6806103

>>6806009
I have electricity tho.

>> No.6806233

>>6804777

This has to be one of the most retarded posts all summer.

>> No.6806244

>>6804777
/ck/ posters are so consistently retarded that while I would assume this to be low quality bait on most other boards it has me unsure here.

>> No.6806253

>there are people on /ck/ that don't know how to cook pasta

does /fa/ ever have "how to put on pants" threads?

>> No.6806280

>>6806253
good point. imma go check

>> No.6806294

>>6806253
reporting back. the answer is no
three different threads about having a big ass but "needing" skinny jeans though