-L. wrote:
> zxcvbob wrote:
> > Michael Horowitz wrote:
> > > Recipes for making pasta vary - some say use oil, others don't
> mention
> > > it.
> > > Why or why not is oil used? - Mike
> > >
> >
> > The oil helps keep the water from foaming and boiling over.
> >
> > Bob
>
> That's what I was taught as well. And you only need a tiny bit. It
> works!

Does not. You imagine. Only thing adding oil to a pot of cooking
pasta does is waste oil and make the pot a wee bit more difficult to
clean... without oil just a quick rinse and a wipe... with oil ya gotta
use a bit of soap on the sponge. More than anything else what makes
pasta stick is *over-cooking*, makes pasta gummy, any dumb dago strunz
knows that much... that's how the shadrool WOPs got used to al dente,
not because they like raw pasta, because they don't own any soap. <g>

Ahahahahahahahahaha. . . .

Sheldago