Kate Connally writes:
>
>Actually Lydia (from Lydia's Italian-American Kitchen)
>recommends putting the lid on as soon as you add the pasta
>to the boiling water in order to bring it back up to the
>boil as soon as possible. She removes the lid after a
>couple of minutes - I presume to avoid the boil-over
>problem, although she doesn't say.

Good theoretical, not practical.

Nine times out of ten the boil-over will win out over your removing the lid in
time... been there, done that... don't anymore.

But I do use a pot lid for cooking pasta, but only to bring the pot of water to
the boil... and often I'll start the water a cookin' an hour or more before
dinner time.... place a large covered potful on the lowest heat setting of your
largest burner, then an hour or so later when you're ready to cook turn up the
heat full high and in two minutes you're ready to cook, dump in the pasta,
stir, and put that lid away. Be sure to have the colander and pot holders at
the ready, and a clear sink.


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