Add a dash of olive oil to the boiling water. It won’t fucking help, but at least you can fuck up pasta in new and interesting ways.
Serious comment on a shitpost community, but the easiest fix I found to pasta that sticks too much was to just buy better quality noodles. The cheapest stuff would stick like nothing else, while Barilla or any pasta cut on bronze dies never did.
Barilla isn’t a better quality pasta. Change my mind
Italian here. Barilla is considered the bare minimum. Its not a high quality pasta, although they have a bronze cut kind which I never tried.
Rummo is the best mass produced pasta I know.
Oh no, absolutely. I realize in hindsight my wording implies that. As someone else commented here, I also consider them the bare minimum. Anything less than that and it’s awful noodles with no sauce adhesion or starch released.
easiest fix i found was to add half a cup/ladle of starchy pasta water to the sauce (halfway through the pasta boiling)
Just use whole wheat pasta.
Stir literally once. No salt, no oil, no additional stirring.
No salt?
Test
Dissolve about a tablespoon of salt into the water when it starts boiling. This helps the pasta starch causing the stick to break up so pasta doesn’t stick to itself or the pot as much when it’s in.
Then just make sure the pasta has plenty of room to roll in, not crammed in a small pot. Obviously never put pasta into non-boiling water. Just like noodles.
If it’s happening on your plate, it’s just too starchy still. Get better pasta.
Salt is for flavor and you can put pasta in non boiling water. There are several recipes which do that to reduce cooking duration.
Better pasta, soft water or just boiling till al dente are better solutions.
