/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Cooking has the greatest amount of pseduoscience out of any other craft. For example, no one has a general consensus on why people salt their pasta water. Some say it's to raise the boiling point, make the water boil faster, or internally season the pasta. Another is putting pasta in already boiling water. Why? If the mushiness of pasta comes from overcooking it, then why not start with room temperature water and bringing it to a boil?

Why do restaurants do this? This literally burns the part of the pasta that is touching the metal. LITERALLY.

Also another one of my pet peeves is that vegans only put oil in the boiling water when the pasta is gluten free, because it's actually required otherwise that shit will stick together like glue on the tip of your dick.