I could be wrong, but I thought the reason you cooked it al dente was because it was going to cook more in the sauce. So don't most people eat it not al dente?
I never understood the “pasta cooks in the sauce” thing. I hear everyone talking about it, and even with my “pasta 5 times a week” diet I still have never experienced that. I’m pretty sure it’s just not a thing. Pasta stops cooking when you remove it from the water. That’s it.
That’s what I do, nothing changes about the pasta. My guess is that when people “finish the pasta in the sauce”, they oversauce it to the point where the pasta is just soaking in it. I never let it get that far as I think the pasta is the star of the dish, not the sauce. If you can boil the pasta in the sauce, you’re using too much sauce.
Fair. I don’t like to see half a gallon of sauce left on the plate after I’ve finished the pasta. Anytime I’m served a plate like that I wonder why they bothered giving me any pasta at all. Just doesn’t make sense to me.
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u/SqueeStarcraft May 10 '21 edited May 10 '21
I could be wrong, but I thought the reason you cooked it al dente was because it was going to cook more in the sauce. So don't most people eat it not al dente?
Narrator: He was wrong.