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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?


I believe salt lowers the boiling point. But then again I have read that it
raises the boiling point. I honestly don't know which is true.