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Default Cooking pasta with salt and water


"Christopher M." > wrote in message
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> "Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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>> Christopher M. > wrote:
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>>>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?

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

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> Doesn't it reduce the bubbling?
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> W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)
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Salt raises boiling temperature to a very small degree, given the amount of
salt usually put into the pasta water.

IF you want to cut your bubbling. add 1 tablespoon oil to the water. The
lessening of bubbles will astound you.

Kent