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[–] 35 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Funnily enough, this could technically work in a place with unsafe drinking water but with freezers.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    Depends on the water though since some may have chemical contamination that won't go away by just boiling (I believe UNICEF has a section on their website about it).

    It's why you are never ever supposed to drink storm water in any form (other than potentially rain collection)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    Why would you need to freeze it though?

    Just boil and store at room temperature?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    But if they're worried about contamination, they wouldn't be storing boiling hot water in plastic bags. Microplastics ☠️

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

    I know this is a joke because you just have to boil them again, but I like using this method so I don't have to look up how much water I'm supposed to add to the pan every time I want to boil some pasta.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Why are you measuring the water? Fill the pot, pour the pasta, cook the pasta, drain the water. Pasta may expand a bit, but otherwise you just need enough water to cover it while it's cooking.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    limiting water is useful for keeping the time it's not yet boiling short, but also may then dip below boiling if you put in too much pasta and have too little water. as always balance is key and I'm a jenga tower.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Take notes, boys. THIS is proper trolling. It's just believable enough while being absurd. It's subtle. It's ambiguous. It's beautiful.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Maybe she’s born with it…

    Tbf the instructions on my pasta box include specific water measurements. Maybe the box is trolling me too.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Exactly, my girl loves it when I surprise her with a home cooked meal but I can never remember if it says 6 or 8 cups of water on the Kraft Dinner box!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yeah, this helped me, also. Though I like to cook a bunch of different things, to the point that I have three freezers to store all the various water volumes I need.

    I've also got a set of bowls to thaw the water in. Plus a bigger bowl to catch the overflow in case the bowl I use isn't big enough to hold all that water when it thaws. I have no idea how this happens, but sometimes I put in a bag of frozen water and it fits in the bowl fine as ice but then doesn't fit when it melts. But I at least solved the problem by placing a bigger bowl under it and, just in case that isn't enough, I have a really big bowl under that.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Interesting, I have a steel pan with measurements burned into the inside with a laser. But for pasta, I usually just add water until it feels right.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Now this is a shitpost.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    This wouldn't work with boiling water, but I've recently learned from minutefood that it could with the pasta. It needs water and heat to cook, but not necessarily at the same time. So you could hydrate a couple packets of pasta in the beginning of the week and cook them instantly when the time comes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zkCzsm5gWKw

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