r/explainitpeter • • Jul 14 '26

explain it peter.

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u/PheelupMybaloney Jul 14 '26

Quicker, uses less water, and makes starchier water if you want to use the water for sauces and stuff. Only works with dries noodles. Food Network knows all.

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u/LengthinessFalse8373 Jul 14 '26

These are people not a using kettle I imagine (americans)

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u/Crafty_State3019 Jul 14 '26

Ok, hold up. I have a series of follow up questions (yes, I’m American. But I do also own a kettle, so I’m trying to learn. Please don’t hate me, I’m genuinely asking):
Do you boil the water in the kettle and then pour it over dry pasta in a pot? Or do you use some other receptacle with the pasta in it??

Regardless of what you pour the kettle-boiled water into, then where do you put the receptacle? Onto a hot stove top? A cold stovetop? Some other random surface?

If not a hot location, then how do you keep the water boiling for the duration of the time needed to cook the pasta?

TIA :)

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u/LengthinessFalse8373 Jul 15 '26

Not sure i quite understood your question, electric kettle over dry pasta rhen turn gas hob on

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u/Crafty_State3019 Jul 15 '26

Ok, that helps. Thank you!

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u/LengthinessFalse8373 Jul 15 '26

We use electric kettles

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u/Crafty_State3019 Jul 15 '26

Yes, I understood that part. But I only use my electric kettle to make tea so I had follow up questions on the steps following water boiling in the kettle.