How to boil pasta like a bad person
1 min readSep 18, 2020
- Take a large pan, pan is better than a pot. The pan has to be large enough to cover the entire length of pasta. This way more starch from the pasta enters the water.
- Pour at least 4 quarts of water for every pound of pasta.
- Add at least one tablespoon of salt.
- After you start seeing bubbles in water. Spread the pasta out evenly so that they are completely immersed in water.
- Put one entire bulb of garlic in the water.
- Add at least half stick of butter depending on the amount of pasta.
- Cover the pan with lid.
- Check later most pastas take 8 to 12 minutes.
- Drain the pasta and pour some brown butter in hot pasta and mix it properly
- Now your pasta is ready for anything you want to do with it.
- Save some of the starch water from the pan for later use in case you want to make some delicious sauce.