The 8 ultimate secrets for perfect homemade pasta

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Things to avoid

 Firstly, you can’t precook pasta. If you’re going to try to save time by partially cooking pasta in advance, forget about it. The only thing you’ll end up with is a lump of tasteless mush.

Also forget about rinsing pasta in running water once it’s cooked. It’s a totally useless thing to do, not to mention that you’re basically just making your pasta cold!

Adding oil to the cooking water is also a waste of time because it doesn’t actually do anything – the only way to get pasta to not stick together is by cooking it in a large enough pot filled with lots of water!