Oily pasta? how do i prevent from having my pasta get oily, i mean i brought it home from a restaurant with?!
Oily pasta? how do i prevent from having my pasta get oily, i mean i brought it home from a restaurant with?
my wife, and I microwaved it, and it got all oily.........how do i prevent that?
Answers: The sauce separated, it is hard to microwave sauces. I would suggest next time you microwave for 20-30 seconds at a time and stir inbetween everytime. This may prevent it from separating. If you have extra quite often, have them serve it to you separately-sauce on the side, then at the beginning of the meal separate some out for your doggy bag and heat up the sauce on the stove and stir constantly. Doggy bag? If so then the place you bought it used excess oil because pasta is not oily. A lot of restaurants pre-cook their pasta, coat it with oil, keep it cold and then reheat it to order by dropping it into boiling water for about 3-5 seconds.
This is how Italian restaurants can go through 100lbs of pasta in a single dinner rush.
Try placing the pasta on a paper towel, and then covering the top with another paper towel before microwaving, to help absorb some of the oil.
gnyparong: as little as a teaspoon of oil in a 5 gallon pot of water is enough to keep it from boiling over. I don't think that small amount of oil is enough to coat the pasta and cause all the sauce to just slide off. If it did coat the pasta... wouldn't that keep it from sticking?
I've added as much as a whole cup of oil to a pot (just experimenting by myself, to see if it would actually work) and not stirred it except for the original dumping of the pasta into the water... and everything still stuck together.
You can also add this small amount of oil to anything starchy being boiled- I do it for potatoes and beans, just because in a busy kitchen, you're running around and NOBODY wants to hear that hiss when the nasty starch-water hits the flame, and know it's your fault and you'll be scrubbing the range later. when the pasta has finished boiling,put it in a pot with holes in the bottom,a culindar thats it.Then pour the pasta in bowl,then boiling water over the pasta,getting rid off all the crap....... the best way is to consume the pasta at the restauraunt.
to be honest, the pasta you bought fr the restaurant, contains a lot of oil - to prevent it, IT WILL BE SAFE IF YOU WILL JUST COOK/BAKE PASTA AT HOME - THIS WAY YOU CAN ELIMINATE ADDING TOO MUCH OIL IN IT.
in the restaurant, When they'd saute the onions and garlic, they used too much oil. BUT IF YOU WILL DO THIS IN YOUR HOME, YOU ONLY NEED TO USE A LITTLE OIL ON IT.
SOME FACTS:
http://www.taunton.com/finecooking/artic...
Add salt, but not oil
You may have heard that you can avoid sticky pasta by adding oil to the pasta water. This can prevent sticking, but at a great price. PASTA THAT'S COOKED IN OILY WATER WILL BECOME OILY ITSELF, AND as a result, the sauce slides off, doesn't get absorbed, and you have flavorless pasta.
Adding oil may keep the pasta water from bubbling up and boiling over the rim, but this can also be achieved by making sure you use a large pot and also by reducing the heat a little (but still maintaining a boil). This is a much better solution than greasing your pasta and sacrificing flavor.
http://www.taunton.com/finecooking/artic...