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| Cook Pasta With Less Water |
Submitted by:
anonymous 09/17/2009 10:19 AM
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I just saw this on idealbite about how to save money, energy and water while cooking pasta. I tested it last night--starting with less water is faster and pasta tastes the same. Just had to do a bit more stirring, but that's no big deal. and yes a small drop in the eco/$ saving bucket, but it all adds up!
This is what idealbite had to say:
* Fantastico eco-savings. You can get away with boiling a pound of pasta with only 1.5 quarts of water, rather than the back-of-the-box reco of 4-6 quarts (but you do have to stir more to make sure it cooks evenly).
* Minimo carbon output. If all Americans use less water and put the pasta in the pot from the beginning, we could save 500,000 barrels of oil per year (energy used to boil the billion pounds of pasta we make each year).
* Arrevederci, time waste. In our test, heating pasta and H2O together from the start saved 6 minutes. Not a lot, but think of all the pasta you make in a year… |
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