"HumBug!" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:40:07 -0800, "Paul M. Cook" > wrote:
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>>"Christopher M." > wrote in message
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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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>>As long as the salt is added by the half way cooked point it comes out
>>just
>>fine. You really do need salt otherwise the pasta is quite bland and flat
>>tasting.
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> Salt HAS NO FLAVOR, it simply enhances whatever flavor it touches.
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> Pasta IS bland, which is why it isn't eaten by itself.
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> Or, maybe YOU DO just eat a handful of bare pasta.
>

Pasta without salt is like a kiss without a squeeze. Nice, but lacking
passion.

Paul