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Oil in the water?! Mmmm…NO.
C’mon guys, i know i’m a random guy and he is a great chef….but if you
cook pasta in this way in a “audition” to get hired in Italy they look at
you and say “Seriusly, have you ever cooked mate??!!”. Let’s ignore the oil
whole thing…but the salt on the already cooked pasta is too much. This is
what you must not do, everybody knows, it ruins everything. C’mon …why
not putting also some ketchup on it?
I love all the dramatic and artsy camera angles zooming in and out, and
panning left to right while he’s doing the least complex thing known to
man.
I can’t believe how wrong Gordon got this. Getting a large pan so the pasta
can move around, is correct, but then it all goes down hill from there.
Salt
Putting salt in cold water, will leave salt crystals in the bottom of your
pan. But if you let the water boil first, the salt will dissolve, as the
boiling water lifts it away from touching the pan. Not really important
when it comes to cooking the pasta, but salt crystals are very hard to get
off a pan, and can make other food you cook in the pan, taste too salty.
Pinch of Salt
The water should taste like sea water, so only using a pinch, is not nearly
enough. Unlike rice, pasta won’t absorb that much water. A good rule of
thumb is; when cooking rice, you season the rice, but when cooking pasta,
you season the water. So you need at least a tablespoon of salt. Don’t be
afraid to taste the water, if you’re unsure about the amount.
Oil
You don’t need oil when cooking pasta, at all. Pasta sticks together
because of the starch, but if you stir your pasta, a few minutes after
you’ve put it in the pan, most of the starch will be absorbed in the water
(this is also why using a large pan is important). After doing this, your
pasta will never stick together, as long as you keep it hot and moist. You
only need to put oil in your pasta, if you don’t mix it with a sauce,
because the starch left in the pasta will set, once it gets cold.
Rolling Boil
The pasta doesn’t need to be continuously stirred (or rolled), you only
need to stir it once or twice, to get the starch away from the pasta. That
is all. In fact, the water doesn’t even need to continue boiling, after
you’ve put the pasta in, you just need to keep it hot to make sure pasta
cooks.
After Cooking
The oil is only ever needed, if you plan on eating the pasta cold. As long
as you keep it hot and moist, it will not stick together, as long as your
stirred it when it was cooking. Further more, if you add a sauce to your
pasta, the oil will make the sauce slide of the pasta. The extra salt and
pepper is not needed at all, I’m not sure what Gordon is thinking? If you
want to season your pasta (with spices or some stock), do it while its
boiling, so the pasta absorbs the flavour through the water.
That is beautiful pasta, cooked perfectly.
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Sometimes i laugh at some of the comments made by stupid people saying
“that’s not how you cook pasta” or some sort…
Yeah right… like we should listen to some random guy on the internet
rather than a well known chef who has won many stars in cooking world…
Ok, I’m italian and I have to say that this is absolutely NOT the right way
to cook the pasta. Holy crap! Olive oil in the water?! Why?! You don’t need
that! Absolutely! And it’s better to add the salt after the water started
to boil.
I’m sorry, but this is absolutely wrong. Did you ever come to Italy to
learn how to properly cook pasta?
I can’t see this :
To tell if the pasta is done, if you throw a nice handful or so against the
wall, and it sticks, then the pasta is done
It’s astonishing to see so many people forwarding a logical fallacy
(specifically, an argumentum ab auctoritate) to say that Gordon Ramsay is
right about the proper way to cook pasta just because he is Gordon Ramsay.
Let’s just go to the facts instead of arguing endlessly about whose take on
the subject is valid or not.
Gordon Ramsay is a 14 Michelin Star chef. He is very successful and a true
expert. But he is not a God. It is impossible for him to know everything
about every single matter regarding culinary. Like any human being (no
matter how exceptional) he can make mistakes; he has some weaknesses and
strengths, like every professional in every field of human knowledge.
It is a scientific FACT that oil will not prevent pasta from sticking. The
oil will only remain on the surface and won’t do anything in that matter;
it will, however, add a layer that prevents the pasta from absorbing the
sauce later. And even though many Americans and Europeans serve the white
pasta with the sauce on top, without cooking them together, they should be
combined during cooking (i. e. the pasta and the sauce) in order for the
pasta to absorb the many flavors of the sauce. The variables that affect
pasta stickiness (or lack thereof) are i) the quality of the pasta, ii) the
amount of water used, iii) the occasional stirring, and iv) the cooking
temperature. My pasta never gets sticky, not even the tagliatelle, and I
stopped using oil a long time ago (while receiving training from a
Sardinian chef).
Gordon Ramsay is, again, an elite chef. But Italians have been making pasta
for centuries and I may say they’ve got a pretty deep understanding of the
subject. And for those who say that pasta comes from China, yes, that’s
true. But chocolate also comes from America, yet the Swiss perfected it.
I’ve spoken with many Italian chefs and they all share the same principles
when cooking pasta.
this guy is sexy… and i like his name too
I’m a English Italian space Martian and you did this all wrong, I got my
dick stuck in the ceiling fan.
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The way to cook pasta is to cook how u like it. I hate mine firm or under
cooked. I never really mix my pasta with the sauce unless I have too much
pasta and not enough sauce. I know the Italian way is to always put the
pasta on the sauce and mix, but I like to put my pasta on the dish the put
my sauce over the pasta. Cook the way you like it..
I literally just saw him on another video saying to not add oil to the
water
Anyone can learn to cook by following Gordon Ramsey, except Arthur
Kirkland. He burns cereal.
_’
Also, I want pasta now! This video made me hungry!