{"id":46007,"date":"2014-10-21T15:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/21\/pasta-perfect.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:36:47","slug":"pasta-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/21\/pasta-perfect.html","title":{"rendered":"Pasta Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#39;s for <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103328827291075446110\" oid=\"103328827291075446110\">Margie Kleerup<\/a><\/span> &#8212; some discussion of pasta, cooking, and some of the science behind it all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/2010\/05\/how-to-cook-pasta-salt-water-boiling-tips-the-food-lab.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/wLjzzRdMW7IXMGbJz-rvXuIuq3ljV_ocxLOj4M_G3aIo6ca5g3hZk6q2I5xlRHdm8apjqMC5br6aTFfKrrCYegC7OxGTemGbm1tL7YtsD9nT6ftyHPzEx2vJ7wTfpPBJBiChVwOsEgNBKVtzNN7Zjuy1MELHhHXjfj9XiHPjvh31ng=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/2010\/05\/how-to-cook-pasta-salt-water-boiling-tips-the-food-lab.html'>The Food Lab: A New Way to Cook Pasta?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt turns out that not only do you not need a large volume of water to cook pasta, but in fact, the water does not even have to be boiling. Wait. What? Let me explain. I, and every other trained cook I know have been taught that when cooking pasta, you need to have a large pot of boiling water. If my wife turned out to be right about this, just think of the pastabilities! This could turn my whole pasta-cooking regime on its head. Some serious test&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/WZboJfuy1PV'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#39;s for +Margie Kleerup &#8212; some discussion of pasta, cooking, and some of the science behind it all. The Food Lab: A New Way to Cook Pasta? It turns out that not only do you not need a large volume of water to cook pasta, but in fact, the water does not even have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/21\/pasta-perfect.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pasta Perfect&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-food-drink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20522,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/hey-good-lookin-whatcha-got-cookin.html","url_meta":{"origin":46007,"position":0},"title":"Hey, good-lookin&#8217;! 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