Draining pasta has never been so easy

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: the tip to drain pasta.

With TikTok, a whole medium has emerged where a huge number of people share handy tips and learn from them. Removing chicken breast fillets, making dalgona coffee, all learned from the platform that is known to many as an inspiration tool for when you need to go to the disco. One of the newest hits: a pasta draining method that is simple yet surprisingly effective…

The man who came up with this and calls himself Ensee on TikTok says he actually drains the pasta this way by accident because he got distracted when the phone rang. Suddenly he saw that he was holding the strainer upside down, but it worked so well that he now firmly claims: Draining pasta IN a strainer is wrong. Draining pasta ON a strainer is right.

@enseemediatell the truth you didn’t know about this? #fyp #foryou #normalpeople #lifehacks♬ Niagara Street – Ensee

Pasta revelation?
Of course, people reacted in the comments. Brilliant, some thought, with one fan stating that he (or she) had learned more from TikTok than ever in school. A bit concerning… There were also disapproving but funny reactions like: “No, it just belongs IN the colander,”, but you do you.”

What do we think? First, we give the floor to all Italians to pass judgment, but then: this only works if you have a strainer that fits exactly on your pot. We also believe in the ‘plenty of water’ theory, so in a pot that is on the small side, you can only make a little bit of pasta, for, say, a toddler. With larger pots, and a standard strainer size that probably doesn't fit exactly, this is quite dangerous. But what worries us the most: is there a mug or bowl underneath that sink to catch that liquid gold that pasta cooking water is ??!!