YES OR NO OLIVE OIL IN YOUR PASTA WATER?

Sometimes I don't even realize I have a question until I get the answer. Just like today: suddenly our neighbors from the online food magazine FavorFlav are talking about olive oil in my pasta water. Something I always do without thinking about it at all. Just learned it once and pour in that oil. Well, here we finally have our answer, do we do it or do we not?

Olive oil?
A commonly heard solution is to throw a splash of olive oil into the cooking water. You can forget that tip anyway. Oil and water do not mix, the oil floats on the surface and does not mix with the pasta. At the moment you drain the pasta, the oil leaves a thin layer of oil on the pasta, but this is exactly what you don't want. That layer of oil prevents the sauce from sticking to the pasta. Long story short: don't do it.

The solution
So what should you do? It's very simple: all you have to do is stir. As soon as you put the pasta in the boiling water (where you've added this amount of salt), stir the pasta well. Stir a couple more times during the entire cooking time, and immediately mix the pasta with the sauce after draining. Never rinse your pasta with water, as that washes away the outer layer of starch, which is exactly what helps the sauce stick nicely to the pasta.

Text: FavorFlav