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Water to pasta ratio (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Whaler_Shaver@lemmy.ca to c/food

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Hello!

I just noticed on a package of pasta I bought that it encouraged a 10:1 water to pasta ratio. That is 1 litre of water per 100 g pasta. A standard pack of pasta would require 5 liters of water.

Is this totally normal to you? What's your ratio?

I think I'm somewhere slightly less than 3:1 for my standard pasta boil.

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[–] shanghaibebop 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Depends on your vessel. Honestly, it doesn't matter at all. It's not like rice where the water becomes a significant portion of the finished pasta. Just have enough water to cover the pasta without having to break it. Boiling duration, however, will heavily impact your pasta texture.

Don't forget to salt the water because unlike Asian noodles which usually have salt incorporated into the dough, packaged pasta does not.