• Lumisal@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Funnily enough, this could technically work in a place with unsafe drinking water but with freezers.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Depends on the water though since some may have chemical contamination that won’t go away by just boiling (I believe UNICEF has a section on their website about it).

      It’s why you are never ever supposed to drink storm water in any form (other than potentially rain collection)

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    9 hours ago

    I know this is a joke because you just have to boil them again, but I like using this method so I don’t have to look up how much water I’m supposed to add to the pan every time I want to boil some pasta.

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      8 hours ago

      Why are you measuring the water? Fill the pot, pour the pasta, cook the pasta, drain the water. Pasta may expand a bit, but otherwise you just need enough water to cover it while it’s cooking.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Take notes, boys. THIS is proper trolling. It’s just believable enough while being absurd. It’s subtle. It’s ambiguous. It’s beautiful.

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        7 hours ago

        Maybe she’s born with it…

        Tbf the instructions on my pasta box include specific water measurements. Maybe the box is trolling me too.

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          Exactly, my girl loves it when I surprise her with a home cooked meal but I can never remember if it says 6 or 8 cups of water on the Kraft Dinner box!

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      9 hours ago

      Interesting, I have a steel pan with measurements burned into the inside with a laser. But for pasta, I usually just add water until it feels right.

  • Lojcs@piefed.social
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    This wouldn’t work with boiling water, but I’ve recently learned from minutefood that it could with the pasta. It needs water and heat to cook, but not necessarily at the same time. So you could hydrate a couple packets of pasta in the beginning of the week and cook them instantly when the time comes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zkCzsm5gWKw