On Jun 15, 7:19 am, "James Silverton" >
wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> The question is basically in the subject but a recipe I was thinking of
> trying called for boiling for 30 seconds to a minute.http://www.cookingcache.com/pasta/an...ongarlic.shtml...
> I usually cook regular spaghetti for 8 minutes and I guess I shall have
> to cook the Angel-hair stuff by inspection.

Angel hair pasta cooks very fast indeed. The box usually says 1 to 2
minutes. If you bite-test it at 30 seconds it will cook appreciably
while you are testing it. So "cook to desired doneness" in this case
means "drain it when your bite test finds it slightly underdone." -
aem