7 Pasta Mistakes Everyone Makes

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Not Salting the Water Enough

When you're making pasta, the water you cook it in should pretty much taste like the ocean. The saltier, the better. As a rule of thumb, use about one tablespoon of salt per quart of water. Also, avoid putting oil in your pasta water. This does absolutely nothing to help the pasta cook and will actually prevent the pasta from properly absorbing flavor from the cooking water and later on the sauce. You'll just end up with flavorless, oily pasta, and who wants that?