/ck/ - Food & Cooking

they should become tender when you add the warm sauce to your pasta

>>8112548
It means "to the tooth"

>>8112548
That's just the name of the guy that invented pasta.

its a meana babbita beep delicioso a pasta pizza pie!!!

>>8112548
It's just a smelly greaseball term for toothsome

Some people like to leave their noodles cooking for a long ass time and they border on mushy.

>>8112548
Isn't it something like if you can bite into the pasta and it sticks to your teeth, then it's al dente?

>>8112548
I will show you a stiff noodle.

>>8112548
it's how you cook pasta if you're having it with a hot sauce

you want it to be just about edible, not overcooked

(to the bite)

>>8112548
it has some resistance to it when you bite into it.

>wanting resistance to your noodle

Eww I want them soft

>>8112548
Funny looking noodles.
Looks more like Penne.

Al dente is a meme.Some Italian chef didn't cook his pasta all the way then told people it was supposed to be that way.

>>8114341
Most things are a meme, retard.
Doesn't mean they are wrong.

>>8112548
Fancy pasta recipes are objectively the trickiest to master. Tried to make spaghetti mignon last night and this fucking shit happened.

>>8114369
topkek

>>8112548
>al dente
Not superior al dente al pacchetto

Crunchy

Its when you eat pasta uncooked, so you need teeth to chew it fine
Source: mamma mia

>>8112554
did the guy who invented pasta eat pasta?

remember to always throw a piece of pasta onto the wall.
if it sticks, its al dente

>>8112760
kek

>>8116805
No, he had coeliac disease.

>>8112548
Fuck all these know knothings in this thread.
The litteral translation (in case you can't Google it) means "slightly undercooked".
"Molto al dente" means "more than slightly undercooked".
Italians are known for undercooking their pasta, and then finishing the cooking process in the sauce.
Finished pasta should be "malvo al dente", or, translated, "cooked very well", or, practically, cooked until the pasta has no bite left to it. It should fall apart slightly when you toss the pasta with the sauce.

>>8112717
Right here senpai!!
But I like all my food soft. I'm a texture fag.

>>8116896
Well fuck me, I didn't know /ck/ had that awful word filter too?

>>8112558

>>8112548
>How stiff should the noodles be?
Japanese man's dick's stiff.

HOW TO UNDERSTAND IF YOUR PASTA IS AL DENTE:

Bite it. If you see a little starch in pasta (just a bit, it has to be a tiny circle for spaghetti or a small ring for penne), it's al dente.

>>8112548
see those rill things, those canals or indentations so to speak the individual noodles have running in a parrelel straight line along the side?

those are the dents (dente in spanish) which lend their name to this cuisine

>>8116901
>awful word filter
nigger detected

>>8117497
>black people don't watch anime
Sorry I'm not a disgusting weeb like yourself.

>>8112760
Ohhhhhhhhhh Myyyyyyyyyy!

>>8116896
>But I like all my food soft. I'm a texture fag.

But soft food results in shitty texture.

It's basically just slightly undercooked, so by the time you get to eating it, it'll be fully cooked