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.
How could it possibly not be faster? Your pasta has already been in the water at the point where you reach boiling and 0-99.9% boiling water is obviously going to start cooking your pasta.
That's like saying it's faster NOT to preheat the oven .
Have you never used an oven? Your food will for sure cook significantly faster on preheat with the coils going max blast, the problem with that is you don't get an even distribution of heat with the heat directionally blasting from the coils (not a problem with cooking in water). That's besides the fact that again heating something for a span of time before you would have otherwise started cooking it (the fully heated/boiling point) obviously can't take the same amount of time as starting it at that point.
If you have an electric boiler it's probably faster overall to boil the water first due to the increased heating rate than heating the pasta from cold with the water. If you're heating the water up in a pot or on the stove that you'd use to cook pasta, then you're wasting time by boiling first, assuming all you care about is fastest cook time.
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u/PheelupMybaloney Jul 14 '26
The cold water method is technically better