No matter what you may have been told about adding olive oil to pasta water, it’s probably wrong. Most Italians and professional chefs will tell you that olive oil should only be introduce to pasta after it’s cooked and not into the pot. Pasta boiled in olive oil repels any sauce you add later so you are doing more harm than good. The point of a good starchy pasty water is to help sauce stick to the pasta, so start cooking like a chef or an Italian and skip the olive oil until the pasta is ready to eat.

Key Takeaways:

• While the American-born often add olive oil to boiling water for noodles, to ensure they don’t stick, it isn’t a regular occurrence in Italy.
• In truth adding the oil to the water can be detrimental to the finished dish, as any Italian chef will testify to.
• The slickness of the oil can prevent the sauce from adhering as it should to the starch.

“The truth is that olive oil and pasta are a match made in heaven, but only once the pasta is cooked.”

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