The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

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bubbles from forming in the first place. Of course,
with our new no-boil pasta-cooking method, this is
entirely moot: you never need to add oil.
What about oiling the pasta after it’s been
drained? Bad idea. Yes, it’ll keep the pasta from
sticking to itself as it sits around waiting to be
sauced, but you know what? It’ll also prevent the
sauce from sticking to it.
When it comes to saucing pasta, it’s essential that
you have your sauce ready and waiting. As soon as
you drain the pasta (reserve some of the pasta
water), transfer it to the pan with the sauce and
immediately start tossing it to coat, adding reserved
pasta water as necessary to adjust the consistency.

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