How to boil pasta like a bad person

Samanja Cartagena
1 min readSep 18, 2020

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  1. 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.
  2. Pour at least 4 quarts of water for every pound of pasta.
  3. Add at least one tablespoon of salt.
  4. After you start seeing bubbles in water. Spread the pasta out evenly so that they are completely immersed in water.
  5. Put one entire bulb of garlic in the water.
  6. Add at least half stick of butter depending on the amount of pasta.
  7. Cover the pan with lid.
  8. Check later most pastas take 8 to 12 minutes.
  9. Drain the pasta and pour some brown butter in hot pasta and mix it properly
  10. Now your pasta is ready for anything you want to do with it.
  11. Save some of the starch water from the pan for later use in case you want to make some delicious sauce.

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