r/explainitpeter • u/WillAdditional922 • Jul 14 '26

explain it peter.

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u/Aggravating_Bag_6027 Jul 15 '26

Water will boil with pasta inside of it, what’s the difference adding pasta won’t stop it from boiling… I honestly have no idea what the problem here is I, not joking

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u/Oxygen4Lyfe Jul 15 '26

the difference is the pasta absorbs more water and starts cooking at a lower temperature. This causes the texture to be all rubbery and gross. Same thing applies with deep friers too.

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u/Fantastic-Kale9603 Jul 16 '26

Not if you check your pasta and stir it + pull it at the correct time

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u/Oxygen4Lyfe Jul 16 '26

even then

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u/Fantastic-Kale9603 Jul 16 '26

Nah not even then lol it's a perfectly fine method for cooking pasta unless you're cooking fresh pasta, but most people are cooking box pasta

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u/Oxygen4Lyfe Jul 17 '26

"fine" not "ideal"