How to Cook Pasta Perfectly: Here's Everything You Need to Know
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Have you been cooking pasta all wrong? It's about time to learn how to cook noodles like a pro.
In this video, America's Test Kitchen's Christie Morrison lays all spaghetti myths to rest and shows every step into making a perfect pot of pasta.
In this tutorial on preparing pasta, you'll learn how much water to use, how much salt to add to the cooking water, how to avoid pasta sticking, and more tips to produce beautifully al dente results every time.
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Cant believe im 21 years old and I need to watch a video on CZcams of how to cook pasta -_- LOL
Same here bro but I'm 22 which is worse! :(
I'm 12 and all I need is the temperature to put it on
.....22
I'm 19-.- fml too
I'm 18 :p
I’m literally an ten year old looking to make pasta for me and my brother 😂
I'm an 18 year old who doesn't know how to cook so be proud of your skills
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As italian, I can confirm we don't put olive oil in the water, just salt (I use coarse salt). Pasta sticks together only if you don't stir it and if you cook it too much. So, remember to stir it as soon as you put it in and then every 2 or 3 minutes.
There's another trick that must be mentioned: when you make "aglio, olio e peperoncino", cherry tomatoes based pasta, carbonara, amatriciana and so on, pasta must finish its cooking in the pan with the sauce.
Basically, you must save some cooking water and transfer pasta when it's not completely cooked (when you feel it's still a bit raw) in the pan where you prepared the sauce. Then stir or, if you are able, toss pasta. Add some cooking water (not too much) when it dries and go on till it's cooked. This will let all the flavors be absorbed by pasta and your meal will be definitely more tasty.
Remember to use FRESH products! This is the real secret.
piolooo32z thanks 🙏
Brilliant tips, thanks!
I was married to an Italian from Roma. Her mom could cook OMG! Buonissimo tantissimo lol
Gordon Ramsay said to use olive oil.... 🤔
2D Hoes Gordon Ramsey hasn’t been in the game as long as Italians
WOW! I'm Italian, and this is the first time I've seen an American cooking it right! As you did, you add salt BEFORE draining the pasta and not waste olive oil. Perfect!
0:19 i wonder what gordon ramsay has to say about this
watched this video after his tips haha xD
samuel27781 samuel27781 same
"This tastes like crap." Then he'd throw it on the floor.
"What the hell is this? This is an embarrassment to the name cooking itself... They make better pasta in Serbian jail toilet you f**king tosser!"
GamingLizard hey im Serbian and my dad made Pasta and it was perfect
Mom's Spaghetti
poms a sweety
he opens his mouth
Bob
lApIS
Palms are sweaty,there’s vomit on his sweater already,mom’s spaghetti.
he's Nervous
When u watch a how to cook video cause u cant even cook
Everybody starts somewhere lol
I did this all my life ... that means i have cooked perfect pasta my entire life....so done!
I'm 12 and home alone for like 20 minutes now should I make this
Yes
Probably not...
as long as you don't destroy the house.
SMG3 Ahaha your reply is so perfect 😂😂
Lol can u use the stove
What a great video....I knew all of those steps BUT it was terrific to see them summarized in a 2+ minute video by such an engaging chef.
You're amazing. I needed this because I'm so hungry and not pro at all. Thanks for the simple tips.
I love the way you show how to cook pasta,I've cooked it from scratch for alot of yrs, I'm 66 yrs old,but my daughter and her boys just buy sauce they like that way
out of ALL of the videos on here about going pasta this is the most ON POINT AND CORRECT, GOOD JOB.
Thanks for teaching. Love the way you said "SAUCY".
Omg Im 13 and used your video to help me make spaghetti for the FIRST TIME and it came out sooo good
About to be 19 in my second year of college. Thanks I have all what you listed
Thanks for the help! It came out perfect. It was the first time I ever made pasta. Thank you again. :)
+Alexandra Plancarte Great to hear!
ويع😮😈
That is not really a good way to make pasta but it's ok
so enlighten us on how you do it then, chef prince craft
+Fredrik Karlsson I am Italian
I'm hungry.. why am I watching this?
Beacuse you are hungry, like me
TheRicksay I'm hungry too
sofian ouahaby
Well Im not hungry as Im typing this but when I was typing that ^^ I was
I wasnt hungry. Now I am hungry too.
marokthegod I will eat soon so no problem¨å
In every cooking pasta instructional there is one or two Italians complaning about how the American is doing it wrong.
And those Italians have a right to complain because it's there dish. So you have to cook the way they did. Al dente.
You find it cooked wrong all over Italy as well.
I mean, it's kind of expected really
***** ahahah I'm chinese and here we learn calcooloos at the age 2
***** I can cook pasta through the power of calculus, bring it on
An additional helpful tip: If you’re not going to put the pasta directly into the sauce immediately after straining it, then make sure to pour some oil into the pasta and mix it to ensure full coverage. This will keep the pasta from becoming dry and sticky.
I do it for flavor.
I'm 30 and just want to eat!
When your in quarantine from Corona Virus
1:54 me when I finish work on a Friday.
Thanks for the upload! I'll try this recipe tomorrow!
Finally someone that makes pasta in the right way!!!! (I’m italian by the way)
Gordon Ramsay: “you need to add olive oil in the water to stop it from sticking”
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Thx you helped me make food for my mother who is in bed tired alone and hurt in the eye she couldn't pay for her medicine today so I hope she eats well before I make more money for her thank you
Thank you for the video. I am Thai and I think this video is useful for everyone around the world.
i did the same think and it tasted amazing!! thank you very much for lerning us this easy homemade spaghetii😉
hi i'm 13 and after i wached that cool video i made pasta and it turned out perfect.thanks
Nor Shams great! 👍👍
Your age isn’t valid
Wow i was about to do it for my school project thanks♥
Ahahah me too
Same and my dad said im on my own
I am 13 and home schooled so I make my own lunch, this helped so much Thank you
You helped me have dinner yesterday!!! Thanks a lot!
omg I'm about to make this right now wish me luck and thank you so much for this I hope it comes out right
I'm 33 who just lived on his own two weeks ago. Wish me luck peeps.
Grim Reaper 33???
@@wormpoo 34 now.
@@DarkReapersGrim Why so late? Not from America?
Grim Reaper, do you like living on your own?
@@blujay1608 To be honest, there are positives and negatives. Positive is freedom and somewhat responsibility. Negative is, I have to cook for myself, it can get lonely and because I moved from a public transportation city to a car-required city, it's tough. Plus, I quit my job like a month or two after I moved, which made things tougher, financially and responsibility-wise.
New sub! Yum yum
thank you so much for this!!! i've been cooking this wrong for the past 15 years!!!
What a great video, so easy to understand
This reminds me of making spaghetti when I was 9, my spaghetti was delicious 😋
I self taught myself how to make pancakes and an omelet egg when I was 9yo.
I randomly clicked on this video out of curiosity, I was prepared for a horror show. But this a good tutorial! That is exactly how we cook pasta in Italy! :)
Just one little detail: the cooking water should only be added to the sauce when necessary, and not in all cases. Use it when the sauce is dry, or you want a more "creamy" result (a good example is carbonara: add water, NOT cream!). It's almost never necessary with "wet" sauces like tomato.
Also, she's right when she says that adding olive oil in water doesn't prevent pasta from sticking, and it's just a waste of oil. Oil doesn't mix with water, and just floats on top of it while the pasta is cooking underneath. If you don't want the pasta to stick, just stir it well, especially during the first minutes of cooking.
Francesco Fiorio Did your ass just wrote all that...
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Thank you so much for this! I am 13 and want to suprise my mother with dinner for her birthday.
I'm a 60 year old Bachelor, got tons of pasta that lady friends gave too me, first time cooking a batch, came out pretty good after following directions/watching this video!! ...Gratitude.👍😁
that moment when u realize that they deserve 11/10
YAY I DID IT I DID IT I DID IT!!! I DID IT!!
Thanks I’m 33 and my wife got a job so now I got to cook still learning ( I know sad) but got to feed the little ones. I suck at cooking so I usually stay away from it but tough times let to my lady to get a job so after my job I gotta do the rest 👍
Thank you! quick and simple, easy to understand. 😊
Can I be the first to say.....
"SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGET"!!
2018
Kelrazor 101 I came here just to find this
*ItS pAsTa mY DudE*
AnD mINe To0
GenLier ItS WeDNeSDaY mA Do0d (eyaaaaaaaaaa)
Undertale+spaggetti= Papyrus
I’m 15 and I want to eat something and I need to cook so I’m here now
Thank you. Your video is informative, and gets right to the point.
Thank you for this amazing video
I just made the perfect pasta
And I wanna make it all over again
So Gordon Ramsay is wrong because he said put an olive oil!!!
Well, he isn't god so he can be wrong, can't he?
Everyone has their own way of making pasta. Which means that the way Gordon does it isnt wrong
+Jonray Diamante That's true!
+Jonray Diamante It's wrong to the italians. That's like saying you're looking at a recipe online, but don't follow it the whole way. Then you're doing it wrong. Wrong isn't bad, but there is no doubt that Gordon's recipe is not correct to the italians.
Yes, he is wrong! Gordon is a donkey who waste olive oil. I'm really not sure he is a chef...
good shit yo im cookin me some
Hell yeah! I'm Italian too LOOOL
***** I am three Italian'o
then why are you watching this video? all real Italians can cook spaghetti
DaphneBlue50s true :D
When ur in quarantine, this is the best PASTA RECIPE EVER!!!!!
Good idea regarding saving pasta water also I always rinse my paste
I don't understand what's this issue about the pasta sticking?
I've never had this problem, as long as I stir about a 5 seconds every two minutes.
I use a small pot that could contain the cooked pasta in a quarter it's size, when the water is nearly at boiling point, I lower the gas to minimum, I put salt in the water and give quick stir, I slowly push the spaghetti in the pot in about 30 seconds (the low heat avoids my hands from suffering the heat), after a few minutes I use the spaghetti spoon and slowly move mix the pasta around, I increase the gas to a point where a few bubbles appear in the water every second, there is no need to bubble it up at high gas, the temperature cannot go about boiling point (100°C at sea level), so the extra gas is only wasted to evaporate the water for no practical purpose.
I prefer dry pasta, I don't collect the pasta water, I put the pasta in the pan containing the sauce on medium heat, add a bit of oil and mix it all for about a minute before placing it in the plate.
I prefer respecting the cooking time in the Italian pasta (from 9 to 11 min), the pasta is slightly hard, unfortunately on average you eat overcooked pasta in too many European restaurants.
saintpine Ohh this is actually really helpful, thanks for sharing!
saintpine finally a person with a brain
saintpine are u from napoli
Yeah i won't read all that
When its 3 am and you are hungry
lol im actually making this at 3 am cus im hungry
edit: i messed it up the pasta it self was ok but the sauce was cold and then its started to become a big mess
Thanks for this very informative vedio.
This is how I do my pasta all the time, granted I learned by watching you guys.
ohhhhh daum they shooting shots and gordon ramsey and his pasta cooking methods
Now lets get saucy lol
Thank you, cooked pasta for the first time. Not much wrong happened and it's delicious :)
Thankyou, it is a valuable information for me.
Is it wrong that I'm watching 1:55 to 1:58 on loop with my trousers down?
dude.
i just died laughing 😂😂😂💀💀
you win the internet
The only thing wrong is that you said "trousers" who says that? 😂😂
+️Kaelynn Edwards I'm from UK. Are you from US? In the UK, trousers are what you call pants. And what we call pants is what I think you call underpants. P.S. I did have my pants down too :)
انا بحب السبجتي كثيررررر😇😇
Thank you for that! Very helpful! Also I liked the vibraphone lick at the end :)
Well explained. I'm going to try it right now.
Am Asian ppl and I really like to eat pasta but I still don't know how to cook this 😒 because I just go to restaurant when I want to eat this only. I want learn how to cook it now
Lykhim Nguon 8
To learn it, just watch Italian people cooking past on you tube. You don't need to understand the language, just watch
why can't u just say a gallon instead of 4 quartz
Why can't you use the correct word for volume (quarts) instead of the one for a mineral (quartz)?
And why can't you capitalize the first word of a sentence and end it with a punctuation mark?
SeikiBrian thats 2 years old
Why are you so triggered?
Triggered? What does that even mean? And so what if it's two years old? Internet comments live on forever, and it was new to me. I doubt that MacKenzie Morris has got any more intelligent in the last two years, and probably still doesn't understand that in cooking, quarts is the more-common measure, not gallons. They're cooking pasta here, not fueling a car. If I look at the bottoms of my saucepans and stock pots, the sizes are given as 1 quart, 1.5 quarts, 3 quarts, 4 quarts, 6 quarts, and 8 quarts, not .25 gallon, .375 gallon, .75 gallon, 1 gallon, 1.5 gallons, and 2 gallons.
SeikiBrian What are you doing, you're actually correcting someone's grammar on the internet, I'm assuming you're over the age of 40..
Yes, not-so-finan; I'm WELL over the age of 40. More than two decades older, in fact. The point, though, isn't so much about grammar as about MacKenzie Morris' idiotic whining about the presenter's use of a standard volumetric unit. Since M. Morris made a petulant "why can't u just...." comment, I countered with an equally petulant "Why can't you..." comment to illustrate the idiocy of the comment.
yep, this is my method as well. also nice to have some of that pasta water when cooking up your sauce too
A wonderful recipe, thank you very much!
Here's what you do. Brown your meat first. I use equal part hamburger and sausage. Then you bring to a boil 2 cups of water, 1 cup of beef broth, 2 cans of diced tomatoes and tomato paste. Throw in some basil, oregano and minced garlic. Throw in a diced onion if you want. A dash of worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper and 2 dried bay leaves. Add your cooked meat. Bring this all to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes covered. THEN you had UNCOOKED pasta and simmer, covered, for another 25 minutes. Trust me! You will have a great pasta!!!
But, I like my pasta saucy. I've used 3 cups of water.
*****
Oh, I didn't know that.
but why would we care what the original Italian way was? No offence, but cooking has come a long way since the old country.
yes, but what I'm saying is that....I don't want to cook like an Italian. I have my own style.
Nice....that's about what I would have expected Ollie. I'm ignorant in what respect? Is it maybe that I can see beyond the shallow and limited perspective you have in your kitchen? No....that would be insight. I know you weren't trying to teach me how to cook Ollie, but at what point did I ask, or anyone else for that matter, what an Italian puts in their sauce. If your their spokesperson, you're not doing much for their credibility Ollie.
great video, thx guys…I'm obviously to stupid to cook pasta so I ended up tipping in how to cook fuckin pasta on youtube.
Thumbs up guys
since this is my first time I gave it a try and I'm impressed with what came out😊😊
We're glad to hear that! Keep cooking! :)
thank u very much my first time makeing pasta and its looking good👌🖒🖒🖒🖒
Cooking Mama+Jonah Hill=this woman
0:19 Gordy: am I a joke to you?!
Just finished eating this and it was bombb
This video is what I need! Great job!
LMAO! You should tell Gordon Ramsay that, because in his CZcams channel he puts olive oil in the water so the pasta doesn't stick
+H Hachem Yeah.... cause there's only one way to do it.... right?
+Christopher Roberts Nobody said there's only one way to do it. In one of Gordon Ramsay videos he puts the olive oil in the water and he says that he does that so the pasta won't stick. And she just said "A lot of people put olive oil in the pasta water, because they think it will keep the pasta from sticking together, but it actually doesn't. Now the reason i made my comment is because i found her comment very funny. Because she's questining a technique that one of the best chef in the world uses.
+H Hachem He also calls the maillard reaction carmelization. He has a few of these strange quirks in his cooking but it works for him.
+MrKleenexDude I'm terrible at cooking, but I do know alot of chemistry and the lady in the video is factual correct regarding that olive oil in the water has nothing to do with preventing pasta to stick.
Here are my arguments:
I. Olive oil is hydrophobic and also lighter then water so it will float on the surface, therefor has nothing to do with your pasta not sticking.
II. When boiling the bubles are rising to the top creating a circulation, with some occasional stir this should prevent the pasta from stick/clump together + cook it eveningly.
III. The oil decreases the surface tension of water, making it harder for the water to from bonds (necessary to make bubbles) with each other. This should prevent the starch from the pasta from bubbling up and out of your pot.
IV. When you are done you dump the pasta into a strainer and the oil will now coat the pasta, which works as lubrication and prevent the pasta from sticking.
if it works on lubrication and prevents it from sticking how is she right
"How to cook pasta"
In the thumbnail there are spaghetti
😂😂
Spaghetti are a type of pasta
روووعه هاي الطريقه I love it so much
Thanks for sharing this recipe 😁😁
im watching this listening to EAZY E and I'm making this fucking spaghetti or someone's getting blasted.
Im drinking and watching this vid while bumping Conejo lol.
+Marar Patrunjelovicip,mhgyhhut
Never heard that the oil was for keeping the pasta from sticking. I had heard the oil was to keep the starch from boiling over and guess what? IT DOES.
Thanks so much! I didn't know that you should add the salt. Spaghetti is also my favorite dish so this video is the best!
You don't HAVE to add salt. I don't because so many foods already have too much salt. In my opinion the salt is completely unnecessary. I don't taste a difference. I also don't add sugar to tomato sauce when making marinara. All of the canned tomato sauces have sugar added. It's difficult to find products without salt or sugar added in copious, unhealthy amounts.
Thanks for being brief ans straight to the point. I hate it when the person starts talking about her children and personal life.
not a fan of adding anything to boil pasta, neither oil or salt
SOMEBODY TOUCHED MY SPAGET!!!
Light Burn meme 4 life XDDD
I love cooking sauce from scratch, I really enjoyed putting ingredients together
I wanna try this it looks amazing
Mom's spaghetti
he's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm n ready....
To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting...
What he wrote down the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth but the willy won’t come out , he’s choking out
Great video! I'm italian and I always feel disgusted every time I see people trying to cook pasta not in a very proper way. You cooked pasta exactly as an Italian would do. Just remember we use curing salt
Fast and easy! great job!
Super easy & pretty explanatory thanks!
papyrus approves
I DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
(Bontrousal intensifies)
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LEAVE. THIS VIDEO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH UNDERTALE. NOTHING.
SOMEBODY TOUCHED MY SPAGHET
THX 2 YOU I can't believe how much olive oil I've saved!!! 10/10
The best video on this subject ever 👏 👏👏👏👍
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Thamerانا احكي معك Ghr هاي افضل سباقيتي على فكرة و بالزيادة مو انتم لا تعرف كيف تطهي
الاجابة الصحيحة هي انتم لا تعرفون كيف تطهوا ok.
*SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGHET*
Finally, im italian and I can't believe that this woman cooks pasta like us, great job
Parte bene anzi benissimo ma mi aggiunge l'acqua di cottura sopra a tutto.... quella va nel sugo. E poi ladcia la pasta dcolata li per troppo tempo. Infine la pasta vacsaltata in padella con il sugo
This is going to help me allot