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[orangerful]

Yes, I was going to make the pasta sides and I had to boil water.....turn my back for one minute and it's boiling over....yeesh...my cooking skills are so low....I actually burned my clam chowder last week too....

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actually, the trick to not having your pasta boil over is that most people don't use enough water. The water is there to absorb the starch that comes off the pasta. I never make pasta in less than a gallon of water. It takes a long ass time to come to a boil, but ya get good results.

Also, the trick of pouring vegetable oil in the water technically works to prevent boil-over, but then that oil coats the pasta and the sause doesn't stick to it as well.