• volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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      9 days ago

      Pasta doesn’t lose the majority of its vitamins to its cooking water though. (Mostly because pasta doesn’t have many vitamins to begin with)

    • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today
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      9 days ago

      If you’re throwing out the pasta water, you’re wasting some very good stock to make the sauce you’ll put on said pasta.

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        8 days ago

        I wouldn’t call it stock, but Italians do indeed use pasta water in many of their sauces. Makes sense because it’s basically just starchy water, which helps to bind the sauce.

        That said, you generally don’t need more than one or two cups of it, the rest is still thrown out.