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Default Cooking pasta with salt and water

On Feb 1, 3:57 pm, (Steve Pope) wrote:
> Christopher M. > wrote:
> >Sometimes I forget to add salt. Can I add the salt after I put the pasta in,
> >or will the salt stick to the pasta and make it very salty?

>
> There is no need to add salt in the first place.
>

Pasta cooked in salty water tastes better than pasta cooked in plain
water. Easy enough to validate--just make two batches, drain and
taste test. I would think you can add the salt any time shortly
before or after you put the pasta in, as the volume of water is large
compared to the size of the pasta. -aem