On 2014-02-25 15:29:01 +0000, sf said:

> How to combine pasta with sauce... and you know which numbskull this
> is posted for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBpbWhfsBxw

What the ****--I learned something!

I was delighted to find I didn't do any of the obviously "wrong"
things. But I hadn't previously, 1) Add some pasta water to the dish
as a matter of course, though recently I've started doing it for some
other reasons. And 2) The idea of adding butter/oil/cheese thing at
the end. That I've never heard of. I do add garni at the end, but
don't mix it in over heat.

Some of the first few "wrong's" seem inconceivable: Putting the cooked
pasta on a plate and then starting the sauce! What the hell. I start
the sauce well in advance of cooking the pasta. I can't imagine how
anybody could do that. Also putting sauce on pasta laying on a plate
also makes for real cognitive dissonance: I never had to be told these
two.

Please tell me no one locally has been championing these methods...