Cook Pro Level Pasta At Home | It's Easier Than You Think

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The problem with trying to create a restaurant level pasta dish at home is achieving the silky-smooth, delicious sauce that lightly clings to the pasta. This is because professional pasta chefs have a secrete ingredient most home cooks don't have access to ...

... STARCHY PASTA WATER!

When batch after batch of pasta is cooked in the same water, it becomes infused with dissolved starch molecules. This helps to form a light glaze that clings to the pasta and can be flavored with any ingredients you can imagine.

In most restaurant, the lighter style pasta dishes and sauces are created in the pan, a la minute. When the pasta is dropped in the water, the chef will start a saute pan, cooking vegetables and aromatics of choice. The chef will then deglaze with liquid (commonly wine), place pasta in the pan with a little bit of the cooking water, and finish with fresh herbs and fat (commonly butter or olive oil).

Using this method, a simple process based approach can be formed to create almost any pasta dish you want.

1. Drop pasta in water.
2. Saute complimentary ingredients.
3. Deglaze with liquid of choice (usually wine). Reduce au sec.
4. Add stock (optional). Reduce to concentrate flavors.
5. Add pasta with a little bit of starchy pasta water.
6. Reduce pasta water until pasta is glazed.
7. Finish with fresh herbs and fat of choice.
8. Check for seasoning and adjust to taste with salt, acid, and pepper.

HOWEVER, since you commonly don't have access for starchy pasta water at home, you need to change your approach and rethink your pasta cooking process.

In this video, we solve this problem by cooking our pasta "a la risotto," using just enough liquid to cover the pasta, adding small amounts of liquid throughout the cooking process, resulting in perfectly cooked pasta with a beautiful, versatile sauce.

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Great video, it's a shame you're getting less views now even with the improved production. good luck with the youtube algorithm.

momentoHermano
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Love your videos, Chef. Everything you post is top notch. I just want you to know how much I appreciate all the help you've provided me on my culinary journey.

Mojo
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I'm a home cook with no professional training, but I'm excited to try this :)

amandasupak
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You continue to be the most awesome teacher of culinary skills on the planet.

DrBlackbeltnddan
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Chef, I watch a ton of cooking channels on Youtube and yours is one of the best. Your professional culinary background really stands out (compared to a lot of other channels that feature home/amateur chefs) and your presentation is so succinct and informative. Love the insight about the difference in execution between a restaurant and home kitchen. Echoing another commenter, I really hope the Youtube algorithm pushes you up to the top.


Btw, just bought the F-Step curriculum. Looking forward to sinking my teeth into it (no pun intended)

mdk
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I just discovered your videos and I can't wait to watch them all! I've never seen instructional cooking videos provide such in-depth explanations and answer my science questions about food cooking. And I love how you mention modifications to make the dishes vegan. Thank you so much for what you're doing!

loriwilliams
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Another quick source of hot, starchy (but flavorless) water would be to cook Raman noodles (or pre-cooked rice) in the microwave with 2+ cups of water.
Saving the water from cooking dry (packaged) pasta for a week is good too! Who doesn't eat pasta at least once a week?
Ideally, keeping quart jars (Kerr or Mason) of pre-made stock IS best.

haroldhenderson
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I've been cooking for about 9 years in a restaurant, I never went to school but I truly love cooking and I very much appreciate your videos I love learning!!
I've gotten to the point where I know how to cook and work a line very well now i have to kind of teach myself the rest which works by trial and error but your content is very well put together and straight forward
Thank you

tatertot
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Another good video, Chef - it really reinforces how once you get comfortable with the simple technique, you will literally have an infinite number of flavor and component combinations at your disposal. I actually have been doing this for quite sometime - I didn’t start adding some lemon or lime juice at the end until I started watching your videos though, lol.

petesusi
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I think your content is a gold mine!

What I think may attract more viewers would be a more modern thumbnail and consistent opening

acseattle
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This is an interesting technique.

For years. at this time of year, my ex-wife's family would have Verinikas--kind of a Scandinavian Ravioli, Perogi, etc. I have found a casserole version of it--saves making the dough (pasta, rolling it out, putting in seasoned cottage cheese, seal dough, boil, serve with sour cream on the side.)

So, I tried your technique. While onions are not normally in Verinikas, I sauted some onions, put in some wide egg noodles, covered with just enough waterr, reduced it to about half water volume. In a separate bowl, I had mixed cottage cheese, couple of eggs, and salt/pepper. I add a spoonful on that mixture to the noodles and 1/4c butter, and reduced it down some more, until the egg noodles were cooked to how I like them. I then added the rest of the cottage cheese mixture, and cooked it a little longer. At this time, it looked like a saucy pasta and cheese dish. I plopped on dollops of sour cream, put in 350F oven, and bake it for 45 or so minutes--so it sets up a bit and reduce some more. The pasta did have different look to it, shiny-iish.

It is now in the oven, I eagerly await the results.

Lawrence

lawrencekellie
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Once again amazing. Are you still cooking at Stella California, lord Burton?

Donbrouwer
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Gotta say this dish really change my entire cooking life. Been watching and learning from you for a few years now and any and everything I want to do or try is up here and perfectly taught. Cheers brotha

zteelchainz
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Just made this it’s fairly easy and really tasty, thanks for the technique!

strikenryken
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As a full time RVer, using less water is always a good thing. I'm figuring that this technique will work with any dry pasta, right.

Javaman
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just found your culinary school videos and now I think i'll try these pasta techniques!

Fieshs
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Sorry but as Italian chef what you did just in that Orecchiette (dropping full ladle of Water Or stock?) it was a terrorist attack .

kimchisgood
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Is this step still necessary or could it be overkill if I'm using a homemade stock and that's very gelatinous and thick already?

bbd
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I made this. It was wonderful. Served it with homemade Italian sausage.

Miata
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Beautiful recipe and terrific technique! I cannot wait to try making this dish using pasta water.

stephensano