John Myers
Have you ever wondered how to cook pasta? Probably not, because a pasta dish is one of the simplest dishes. There are still uncertainties, namely when it comes to salt when it belongs in the pot. You’ll find the answer here.
How do you cook pasta?
Do not be ashamed of the question of how to cook pasta. Even the smallest things are mistakes.
- The supposed basic knowledge when cooking pasta is that salt comes into the boiling water before the pasta, never into cold water. However, now it doesn’t matter when you add the salt to the pasta water, as long as you do it before the pasta. Because only then can it penetrate the slowly swelling noodles and intensify their taste.
- This process is due to the build-up of salt, which is made up of positively charged sodium and negatively charged chlorine ions. These dissolve in water and are then surrounded by water molecules.
- The negatively charged oxygen side of the water molecules joins the sodium ions, while the hydrogen side combines with the chlorine ions. This makes it easier to stick to the softening noodles.
- However, this means that the cooking time of the pasta and the boiling time of the water has no effect on the dissolution of the salt particles. Therefore, it doesn’t matter when you add salt to the water.
- It doesn’t matter whether it’s cold or already boiling: as long as you add the salt to the water before the noodles, your noodles will be wonderfully salty.
- In the past, however, the order was important, salting the boiling water, but never the still cold water. The reason for this was the earlier aluminum pots.
- Because salt attacks metals and thus the surface of the earlier aluminum pots. Nowadays, however, only stainless steel is usually used in the kitchen.
