PeterLucas wrote:
> Corey Richardson > wrote in
> :
>
>> Can this be true?
>>
>> Gordon Ramsay, who has been awarded 12 Michelin Stars, cooked pasta
>> tonight in salted water containing olive oil live on UK TV!
>>
>> Maybe those (pseudo Italians) who berate it (cooking pasta in water
>> containing olive oil) so much are wrong again.
>>
>> It looks like they were!
>
>
>
> I usually always put oil in my pasta water. Except for my homemade
> pasta.
>
>
> It has a threefold effect.... it smells nice when it's boiling, it
> stops the water from bubbling over the rim, and it coats the pasta
> when you drain it off.
>
> Gordon *can't* be wrong!! He copied off me ;-)


Good lord. Who cares? I never put oil in water for pasta.

Jill