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Do you salt and oil your pasta water /ck/?

>> No.19260048

Plenty of salt, no oil

>> No.19260072

>>19260048
fpbp .

>> No.19260087

>>19260047
Do not ever oil your pasta water. As for salt, yes, yes I do.
>you're wasting salt
It's incredibly cheap, putting it in the water is the best way to salt it evenly.

>> No.19260090

>>19260087
>you're wasting salt
I refuse to believe anyone has said that who wasn't trolling the fuck out of a retard.

>> No.19260104

>>19260047
Salt, yes.
Oil, never.

>> No.19260107

>>19260048
>>19260087
>>19260104
what's wrong with oil

>> No.19260109

>>19260107
It's incredibly expensive.

>> No.19260110

>>19260107
It literally does nothing.

>> No.19260111

>>19260047
My twelve year old sister does. I prefer not to. She's just started wearing training bras.

>> No.19260198

>>19260047
Salt it yes, ofc.
No oil, it literally does nothing. Physically it cannot do anything. You oil the pasta AFTER straining out the water.

>> No.19260296

>>19260107
water and oil don't mix, Jimmy. The oil is just gonna sit on top of the water doing nothing. Now give me your lunch money

>> No.19260299

>>19260048
also plenty of salt, no oil

salted posta is heavenly, oiled posta isn't even actually oiled and worse it's totally unnecessary and waste of your hard earned olivölle money

>> No.19260394

>>19260047
>oil your pasta water
i'm not a retard.

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>>19260394
you mightn't oil your posta anon but don't come on here and lie like that

>> No.19260520

>>19260198
You don't do that either retard.

>> No.19260527
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>>19260520
are you implying people don't eat posta with olivölle?

>> No.19260533
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19260533

I add salt and white vinegar EVERY time I boil water, no question, no answers, no capitulation

>> No.19260545

>>19260533
Fuck I've never done vinegar

Two questions about this:
1. What does it do?
2. But what does it actually do?

>> No.19260553

>>19260545
I like the taste (I sip on white vinegar or add it to water at times even) and it kills more microbes. Just don't overdo it

>> No.19260574

>>19260553
In Ancient Rome they diluted their soldiers water with vinegar for health, called posca, famously dubbed the roman gatorade. Care to comment?

>> No.19260577

>>19260111
What other threads are you in? You're creepy sister posts are better than any creepy pastw

>> No.19260598

>>19260574
I think that's fuckin awesome and I didn't know that. Happy to hear I can larp as a Roman soldier now

>> No.19260602

salt yes, oil never. why the fuck do i give a shit if it sticks? i'm cooking for myself and planning to eat it all.

>> No.19260608

>>19260602
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlMpP9GrAqE

>> No.19260627

>adding salt
do americans really?

>> No.19260665

>>19260627
50¢ chinaman right there

>> No.19260797

>>19260047
Only use cheap table salt for the water, save the nice salt for sprinkling on top later
No oil

>> No.19261899

>>19260047
I just add fish sauce to the water. Does the same thing. I only add oil to the pasta once it's outside to prevent it from sticking.

>> No.19263295

>>19260047
>I salt my water, not my pasta
Do Americans really?

>> No.19263562

>>19260047
Why should I salt the pasta if the pasta is just gonna get slathered in a flavourful sauce anyway? Don't see much point in it

>> No.19263580

>>19263295
American hands typed this

>> No.19263595

i absorption cook my whole wheat pasta in a pan in a pressure cooker, often with lentils, spices, mushrooms, other stuff

why do you lil pissbabies keep saying whole wheat pasta tastes bad when it doesn't?

>> No.19263615

>>19263562
Tasty sauce on tasty pasta > tasty sauce on bland pasta
Give your pasta a taste after cooking it in salted water. It tastes nice on its own. Don't overdo the salt though.

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>>19260574
this is like me drinking piggle juice

>> No.19263633

>>19260047
Salt and sugar yes.

>> No.19263638

>>19263295
I'm gay btw, if that matters.

>> No.19263716

>>19263633
Wh.. why are you putting sugar in the water?

>> No.19264633

>>19260048
What a waste of salt.
>>19260107
You only use oil if you have so much pasta compared to the amount of water or else its going to stick together.

>> No.19264800

>>19264633
>Click here
STFU always salt your water and oil is to prevent boiling over

>> No.19264908

>>19260545
Vinegar is good for potatoes so they don't break down after cooking

>> No.19265048

I put butter in the water since I heard of the "butter in everything" restaurant meme, I thought it was an improvement sort of silky and not bland

>> No.19265295

>>19264800
You dumbass you end up wasting all the salt when you drain the water after finishing the pasta. Add salt AFTER boiling not when its boiling in the pot.

>> No.19265302

>>19265295
>he doesn't save his pasta water to use to make soup later
nani the fuck?

>> No.19265311
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>>19260574
The modern day roman spic gets his vinegar from tabasco.

>> No.19265373

>>19264908
Do you have a credible (university, chemist) source for that?

>> No.19265383

>>19265295
You need far less salt when you salt at the start. And you salt more evenly.

>> No.19265401

>>19260107
Oil floats on water. Pasta sinks to the bottom. It does nothing at all.

Catering services and shitty restaurants will precook pasta and store it in the fridge, where it cakes together. They'll add oil to the reheating water to try and "dissolve" the pasta again.

If you want to store pasta in the fridge just add a sip of oil after you cooked it, while it's still warm. Give it a good stir.

>> No.19265497

>>19265401
Right. There is no reason to put oil in pasta water. It's a retarded old myth and I can't even remember what it's supposed to do anymore.
You can put oil on pasta after cooking in a few situations. For example, a pasta salad. Toss cooked pasta with oil and spread out on a pan to cool. Don't ever fucking rinse your pasta.
Salt in water so it seasons the pasta throughout while cooking. No argument to be had. You're a retard otherwise.
t.chef

>> No.19265526

>>19265295
Salt is cheap as fuck

>> No.19265544

>>19260047
>>19260048
>>19260072
Yup, salt no oil
>>19265497
It's supposed to help it not stick but if you put pasta back in the sauce on a pan/pot or add a little oil after, or any number of things you can get your pasta to not stick so yeah as you said oiling the water is dumb

>> No.19265553

>>19260047
I salt my pot, oil my pasta and pepper my dick.

>> No.19265557

>>19265497
I thought it was to keep it from boiling over? If you use a spray bottle to spray a small amount of oil on water that looks like it might boil over the bubbles will completely smooth over.

>> No.19265560

>>19265557
I think that could work but you can just lower the heat or not overfill your pot without wasting oil

>> No.19265566

>>19265557
My brother used to wipe the outside of his nose and stick that finger in the pasta water to stop it from boiling over.

>> No.19265568

>>19265560
It'd be less than a teaspoon.

>> No.19265569

>>19265557
Even if that does work (which I highly doubt), I don't understand when I would need that. As the other anon said, use a bigger pot and there is no problem.

>> No.19265577

>>19265569
The other thing is what oil? There is a point here about understanding the role of different oils. I have nice olive oil for finishings, nice grapeseed oil for vinaigrettes, canola (or others) for searing... what do I put in the pasta water according to these types? My nice olive oiil? Get the fuck out of here, that's far too expensive for a "nifty hack". Shitty canola oil? I don't want that in my pasta...

>> No.19265633

The hot salt heats the pasta

>> No.19267535

>>19260110
>>19260198
>>19260296
>>19260299
>>19260394
>>19265401
this is incorrect. starch in the pasta water emulsifies the oil into the water, and olive oil infuses a nice subtle flavor into the pasta. but then again i didnt really expect posers on this board to actually know anything about cooking

>> No.19267540

>>19260047
and my rice water

>> No.19267568
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>>19267535
not necessary, I feel like it's a waste of nice olivölle. at least mostly a waste and not worth it.