You’ve been cooking your pasta all wrong–my simple trick will stop the water from overflowing ever again
COOKING pasta seems like a simple task.
You boil some water, throw the noodles in, add the sauce, and voila: you’re done.
But if you’ve ever made a large serving of the dish, you know that sometimes the water can boil over the pot and stain your stove top.
A woman who goes by @AmberErixon on TikTok has gained a following for her simple recipes, food hacks, and relatable parenting videos.
She recently said that she knows the easiest way to prevent pasta water from overflowing out of the pot.
In the clip, she began: “Right before your pasta boils over, add one ice cube.
“It’ll bring the entire temperature down and no overflow.”
After throwing the single cube in the pot, the water level instantly lowered down.
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As for other pasta-cooking hacks, a woman who goes by @JasmineGiltrow recently shocked the internet when she shared her very different approach to preparing the dish.
Rather than boil the pasta in water as we’ve all been taught, she decided to boil it in tomato sauce.
In the video, she began by pouring a jar of red sauce into a pot.
She then added a splash of water and dropped in a handful of uncooked spaghetti noodles.
As the sauce began to boil, the noodles expanded and softened – absorbing the sauce.
Jasmine then added meatballs to her spaghetti mix and served the completed dish on a plate.
The hack sparked a debate, with some people believing it was “brilliant” and others simply horrified.
“This makes so much sense tbh,” one person commented.
“YOURE TELLING ME IVE BEEN COOKING THEM SEPARATELY AND THEN MIXING THEM WHEN YOU CAN DO THIS,” wrote another.
“Yo I’m lazy af this is brilliant,” said a third.
Others were less than impressed:
“No, No, No… this is so wrong. NO,” one person argued.
“As an Italian, this makes me feel so bad. No,” added another.
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