7 Pasta Mistakes Everyone Makes

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Throwing Away the Cooking Water

When you're making pasta, don't let all the cooking water go to waste. The starch that's been released by the pasta while it cooks will help to thicken your pasta sauces and add extra flavor. It also helps sauces stick to pasta more easily. A good tip would be to save about a cup's worth of cooking water as you drain the pasta. Then, when you're making the sauce, add some of the cooking water bit by bit, until you get the desired texture (thinning it out or rendering it creamier, for example).

Cooking pasta might seem like a basic skill, but as you can see, there are still ways to mess it up! Avoiding these simple mistakes will help you serve better pasta each and every time.

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