Also hot dog water
This implies pasta was made for breakfast.
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That's the most disconcerting part. I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
Sounds pretty wasteful
Probably going to have it with strawberries.
Capellini with strawberry and mint sauce?
You can use the pasta water to make a hell of a tasty alfredo sauce (or use to thicken up most Italian sauces really). That's the only use I've found for it so far.
Boil eggs?
Ooh that's another good one.
Also, you used a paper filter, you dumb ass
What's wrong with a paper filter for a pour over?
Pretty wasteful, better use a French press
It's just the type of paper filter that was used. The person in the post used a flat-bottom filter when a No°3 or No°4 cone filter would've been better. (As an extra aside, the specific type of pour over device seems to be from Starbucks, and those come with No°3 cone filters to begin with.)
That could be a malita filter, which has a flat bottom.
It filters out the microscopic pasta chunks that you get to chew on if you brew it directly in the cup
mmm delicious 😋
this reminds me of that one tlc episode where a woman scraped leftover spaghetti sauce from plates to reuse it and made lasagna in a dishwasher or some shit
zero waste
disposable coffee filter
It doesn't make any waste if you never dispose of the filter.
paper is compostable
So is water..
Source?
I piss on my flowers every day, it's basically the same thing.
Your flowers must smell lovely
it may be disposable, but it is also eatable.
So are the coffee grounds
a metal filter would make the pasta water coffee taste bad
I compost the filters
It's hard to tell, but it looks similar to my reusable hemp cloth filter. There's a chance it's reusable.
who knows how many times she used it already/plans to use
She eats pasta for breakfast?
breakfast isn't magical, just eat whatever makes you happy.
Meal prep maybe. But if I had the time and energy to cook it in the morning, I'd eat spaghetti all the time for breakfast
You want to save water when boiling pasta? Stop using a big pot.
Pour the pasta into a skilled, add enough water to completely cover it and turn on the heat. Add a pinch of salt (not too much, as you will be eating all of it) and allow the pasta to cook. It will slowly absorb the water it needs and will normally leave little to none behind. If some water is left behind, use it to thicken sauces; the gluten in the water helps.
This works with every pasta, even spaghetti.
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Next time use coffee water to cook pasta
Bathwater > pasta water > coffee water
Otherwise it's unhygenic
That may be, but a coffee shower sounds reasonable to me at this point.
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Has she peed that day? Is that what she cooked the pasta in?
ZERO waste, leave no trace.
Wouldn't it be better to boil, make the coffee, and use the rest of the water for pasta?
no ❤️
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So this is how you do an Italian pour over. Interesting...
Imagine using it for that Dalgona coffee everyone was making during lockdown. The creaminess from all that starchy water would be next level
Just use pasta/rice water to water your plants. They will enjoy the extra nutrients.
Edit: maybe not, I'm not a scientist.
I was wondering about this because that seems like a good idea upfront, but apparently:
- The extra minerals and stuff is a very minor benefit for plants and will not substitute for fertilizer.
- If you put salt or seasoning in the boiling water, don't use it for plants.
- The starch might also promote mold / bacteria growth.
Pasta water is in fact an excellent thing to save... As a cooking ingredient.
Specifically, what you can do is freeze it in an ice cube tray, and then store the cubes in a Ziploc. A handful of cubes added to a soup, stew, stock or sauce will give it a smoother, more silky texture thanks to all the starch.
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Yeah if you make a pasta bake with dry pasta, just add equal weights pasta and water and it should cook OK.
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