(This oblong pot by Rachael Ray is perfect for cooking long pasta!) To get the pasta al dente like you really love it, stick close to that boiling pot and pay close attention. Pasta seems like something that you can set and forget but we actually don’t recommend that. They really do help! The timing of cooking pasta When you bite down on the cooked pasta it should keep a firm texture but still be flexible. There is a delicate balance between too much bite and just the right amount of bite.ĭo keep in mind that this “feel” is also a bit subjective. Think of it like this, ABCs & 123s in a can are usually not what I would consider to be al dente, and are cooked all the way through because they are meant to be a soft, easily eaten food. To the layman like me, this means that when I bite into the pasta I have to actually bite down a bit to get all the way through it. (especially of pasta) cooked so as not to be too soft firm to theĪl dente is an Italian phrase that means “to the tooth,” which is what they call perfectly cooked pasta. But the real question is “what does al dente mean?Īl dente
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