Here's how to avoid sticky dough once and for all.

When making pasta, it often happens that it sticks after the cooking.

Result, it makes big packages. Not very practical to serve!

Fortunately, there is a trick to prevent pasta from sticking out of the pan.

And this stuff works with any kind of pasta, not just spaghetti.

The trick is to add 1 teaspoon of olive oil to the cooking water. Watch:

Here s how to avoid sticky dough once and for all.

Contents

How to
Result
Why it works
Additional advice

How to

1. Take a large saucepan. The larger the pan, the less chance the pasta will stick together.

2. Fill the pot 3/4 full with cold water.

3. Boil the water.

4. When the water boils, add a teaspoon of olive oil.

5. Add pasta to boiling water.

6. Once cooked, pour them into a colander.

Result

There you go, you've avoided sticky pasta :-)

Now you know how to cook pasta without it sticking together.

You will be able to serve spaghetti and your fresh pasta to your guests without worry.

Also don't forget our tip for measuring the right amount of pasta to cook.

Why it works

This trick is effective in preventing the pasta from sticking, but the explanation is not necessarily what one might think.

Indeed, as you can see below, olive oil remains on the surface of the water, because it is lighter:

Here s how to avoid sticky dough once and for all.

During cooking, the pasta remains below the surface of the water. They are therefore not in direct contact with the olive oil which is on the surface.

So that's not when the oil prevents the pasta from sticking.

Here s how to avoid sticky dough once and for all.

As the water boils, bubbles rise to the surface, creating a sort of movement in the pan.

This movement is sufficient for the pasta not to clump together.

Once the pasta is cooked, you empty the pan into a colander to separate the liquids from the solids.

This is when the pasta will pass through the oil that was until now on the surface of the water.

It's that lubrication which allows your pasta not to stick. As a result, even when cooling, your pasta does not stick.

This technique is ideal for making cold pasta that doesn't stick, isn't it?

Here s how to avoid sticky dough once and for all.

Additional advice

Know that you should never put olive oil in the water, if you add a tomato sauce to the pasta.

Why ? Because the layer of oil on your pasta will act as a barrier between the pasta and the sauce.

As a result, your pasta will have trouble mixing with the sauce you have prepared. It would still be a shame, wouldn't it?

Of course, if you make pasta with olive oil and garlic, that's not a problem!