Re:The right way to sauce pasta (2016)
by geertj on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:30AM
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Much of this is overengineered. My entire wife's family is from Sicily, and I lived there for 5 years. The important step is to add the pasta to the sauce skillet after the pasta is al dente, and cook it for another minute or so while turning it. This is called "mantecare" in Italian. If you want, you can add a few lines of oil after you turn off the fire ("al crudo" i.e. "raw"). I have never seen anyone do the other steps.
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Re:The right way to sauce pasta (2016)
by someotherperson on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:53AM
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Adding pasta water to thicken the sauce and tossing so that the water and oil forms an emulsification is important unless you want oily, watery pasta. The only step I see worth skipping is adding more fat, that one makes no sense and just suggests there wasn't enough fat used when making the sauce in the first place. I guess ultimately it really depends on the sauce that is being prepared.
Re:The right way to sauce pasta (2016)
by zooweemama on Sunday January 28, 2024 @01:35PM
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My mother is Sicilian and she always keeps some of the pasta water aside to add if the sauce ended up too dry.