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Kitchen Tips: Cooking Pasta – as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. My family loves pasta, so I make pasta at least once or twice the week, and there are some tips that you should know about cooking pasta, because when I teach my cooking classes, people ask me questions and I am surprised at how much misinformation is out there. A couple quick tips: if you start off with a thin, metal pot, the water will boil much faster. Okay? It is really important that you use salt in your water. A lot of chefs say you want your water to be salty like the ocean. I do not necessarily add that much salt, but I do use a good kosher salt, and you need about a tablespoon of kosher salt for each quart of water. Now, another thing that I have been told by people is they add oil to the water. Why would you do that? There is no reason to do that. If you add your pasta to the pot, and you take a good pair of tongs, and you are stirring your pasta around immediately, and pretty much throughout the whole cooking process, your pasta is not going to stick. The bad thing about adding oil to your pasta is once you take your pasta, cooked pasta, out of this pot, and add it to a sauce, the oil is going to cling to those strands of pasta, and your sauce will not adhere to that pasta. It will just slip right off, so you definitely do not add oil to your pasta water. Now, you want to cook your pasta until it is almost done, they call it al dente meaning “to the tooth,”. Now what that means is you are …

Chef Angela show us how to boil our pasta. She adds salt to the water and NOT olive oil, then she puts pasta into water whole, followed by stirring. www.facebook.com

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When cooking pasta, cook like they do in Italy — Cook to Al Dente! Chef Angela talks to us about Al Dente. Al Dente in italian means “To the Tooth”. It refers to when the pasta is finished cooking. It should be firm to the bite but not crunchy. Depending on the pasta it takes about five to six minutes per pound of pasta. www.facebook.com