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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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[–] thrawn21 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I usually use as little water as I can get away with, as the resulting pasta water is much more starchy and works better in sauces.

[–] pixel 3 points 1 year ago

I want to echo this, it makes sauces so creamy and luxurious, makes your pasta genuinely have the mouth feel of like high quality restaurant pasta. Heard about doing this in a j Kenji lopez-alt video and I swear by it now. Also has the benefit of coming to temp faster (less water means you need less heat to boil it) so stuff tends to move faster in the kitchen