>Siobhan Perricone wrote:
>
>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:26:07 -0700, "<RJ>" > wrote:
>
>>
>>I had just dumped the spaghetti into the boiling water.
>>Phone rang... I had to leave the house "right now" !
>>What to do ?
>>
>>I turned off the stove, put the lid on the pot, and went out.
>>
>>When I came home ( half hour later )
>>the pasta looked "cooked".....
>>So I drained, sauced, served.
>>
>>I've never been a big fan of "al-dente"
>>But now I know what "al-mushy" is like. YUK !
>>
>>Is there any way I could've saved this spaghetti ?
>>I'm thinking it woud've been bettter to just toss it,
>>and start over....
>
>There is no saving pasta that is over cooked. Should have just started
>over.

The question was how he *could've* saved it. 'Stead of just turning off the
heat and running off *could've* quickly drained the pasta and gave it a quick
toss with a bit of oil to keep it from sticking (leave the oiled pasta it in
the colander, in the sink)... then start the cooking again later... pretty much
how lots of restaurants do. Naturally if yer running off to an emergency, like
someone's bleeding to death, then well, screw it, pasta is cheap.


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