Right, but if you wait for the water to boil before you put the pasta in, then you are waiting a little longer before adding the pasta. Then cooking the pasta slightly shorter after you put it in.
Yeah. And many people do indeed recommend one should add pasta only after the water is boiling. For example:
Don’t add the noodles until the water has come to a rolling boil, or they’ll end up getting soggy and mushy.
Except … they don’t get soggy.
I would know, I made a lot of pasta in spring of 2020!
While we’re at it, they also say
Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
which other sources also tend to recommend. This is usually justified by saying that by using a lot of water the pasta will thereby stick together less. But as I said, I consider myself a noodle expert now, I optimized the process, and using a larger pot just increases the cooking time (since more water takes longer to get hot), but has no measurable influence on stickiness.
Right, but if you wait for the water to boil before you put the pasta in, then you are waiting a little longer before adding the pasta. Then cooking the pasta slightly shorter after you put it in.
Yeah. And many people do indeed recommend one should add pasta only after the water is boiling. For example:
Except … they don’t get soggy.
I would know, I made a lot of pasta in spring of 2020!
While we’re at it, they also say
which other sources also tend to recommend. This is usually justified by saying that by using a lot of water the pasta will thereby stick together less. But as I said, I consider myself a noodle expert now, I optimized the process, and using a larger pot just increases the cooking time (since more water takes longer to get hot), but has no measurable influence on stickiness.