For pasta that's al dente, there should be a thin ring of that lighter color inside. The thicker a ring there is, the less cooked it is. When you do, you'll likely see a ring inside the pasta that's a lighter color than the rest of the noodle. All you need to do is carefully fish out one of your noodles from the pasta pot and cut it in half. There's a simple trick that you can use that doesn't involve biting into a slightly raw, very hot piece of rigatoni. So how can you tell how far along your noodles are in the cooking process? Don't throw them at the wall-that sounds messy. Many pasta recipes call for pasta to be mostly cooked through in boiling water and then transferred to finish cooking in the sauce, a move that melds the flavors of pasta and sauce together as well as bringing along some of that sweet, sweet starchy pasta water. But when I was a teenager who just needed a quick, easy dinner while I was studying, I reached for the macaroni and cheeese box-or the spaghetti with jar sauce-every time.īut even if you've been cooking pasta for a long time, you might have trouble figuring out when it's done to your liking without the help of the timing on the box.
Yes, of course, there are nuances to the art of making and cooking pasta that you might not grasp in your early days. Pasta is one of the first things many Americans learn how to cook.
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