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uvar posted:These tips are great, but where are all the life hacks for used pasta water? Pouring that starchy thirst quencher down the sink seems so wasteful! Why you should never throw away the water you use to cook pasta PASTA lovers who regularly cook the Italian dish will be used to immediately tipping the leftover water down the drain. But that’s actually a mistake, as the starchy water can be put to good use. Here are six ways it can benefit your home. 1. Watering your plants and flowers Water which pasta has been cooked in is full of starch, which is often rich in minerals and vitamins. That content makes it helpful for growing plants and flowers, so use it to water the garden. Just make sure you avoid watering plants with water that’s been salted, and let it cool before you put it on any soil. 2. Making your own pesto sauce Most people can’t dive into a bowl of pasta without a spoonful of pesto. The remaining pasta water can help you make it — ensure it’s kept warm and it’ll act as a bonding agent. 3. Making homemade pizza dough and bread As the water retains some of the flavours and starch from the pasta, it’ll give your homemade pizza dough, or bread, a new and unique taste. Similarly, use it to make broths or soups and you’ll get an extra flavour punch. It’s good for boiling vegetables in too. 4. Washing your dirty dishes You might think using pasta water to wash dishes would leave them filmy, but the starch actually dissolves grime and acts as a natural cleaning agent. All you need to do is leave dishes soaking in it for a bit first. 5. Soaking your sore feet If you have sore feet at the end of a long hard day then this novel treatment might just be the one for you. All you have to do is warm up your spaghetti water to a comfortable temperature and pop your feet in. The heat combined with the minerals will soothe aches and pains. 6. As a replacement for shampoo If your hair lacks shine or looks flat then soaking it in the water for 10 minutes could help. After that shampoo as normal and you’ll be amazed at the gleam you get. This isn’t the only cooking tip to sweep the web in recent months. Chef Fabio Viviani recently urged people to stop putting oil in their boiling water when making pasta.
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Also, if you are cooking soba, save the water as a drink on the side. This is called soba-cha. It will be gross if the soba has a low buckwheat to wheat ratio, so only do it with decent soba.
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twoday posted:Also, if you are cooking soba, save the water as a drink on the side. That's ironic, because drinking the water off your pasta seems like the kind of idea you'd only come up if you'd been drinking.
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twoday posted:
Ooh, that actually sounds like a pretty good-- twoday posted:Just make sure you avoid watering plants with water that’s been salted WTF
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Jun 4, 2018 13:35
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Boiling pasta in unsalted water sound like something that would induce a heart attack in any Italian mama worth her salt (haha), by the mere mention of it.
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Jun 4, 2018 13:42
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Lifehack! Cook your pasta with oil and without salt! The oil will swim on top of the water so it won't even touch the pasta, but at least the pasta will taste like poo poo because you didn't put any salt in!
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Jun 4, 2018 13:43
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KozmoNaut posted:Boiling pasta in unsalted water sound like something that would induce a heart attack in any Italian mama worth her salt (haha), by the mere mention of it. Olive Garden doesn't salt their pasta water, per company policy.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Olive Garden doesn't salt their pasta water, per company policy. Which is why Olive Garden is the whitest restaurant.
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Jun 4, 2018 15:23
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Iron Crowned posted:Which is why Olive Garden is the whitest restaurant. Second-whitest. Skyline Chili beats it.
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Jun 4, 2018 15:26
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Phanatic posted:Second-whitest. Skyline Chili beats it. Thankfully Skyline is quarantined to Ohio and surrounding states.
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Jun 4, 2018 15:27
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Phanatic posted:Second-whitest. Skyline Chili beats it. Skyline Chili, while sill basically being a whites-only restaurant, does now have spicy cheese making it massively less white than previously and allowing others to vye for the crown.
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Do restaurants like that even have pasta water? I assumed that everything came in frozen/canned and they just heated it up.
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Jun 4, 2018 15:35
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Do restaurants like that even have pasta water? I assumed that everything came in frozen/canned and they just heated it up. They heat it up in water.
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Jun 4, 2018 15:50
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Use your pasta water to make wall paper paste imo.
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Jun 4, 2018 15:58
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Screaming Idiot posted:LIFEHACK: EAT ALL THE FOOD IN ONE SITTING SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BOTHER WITH LEFTOVERS OR LIVING INTO YOUR 40'S
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Jun 4, 2018 16:38
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Yawgmoth posted:A+ username/post combo He's pretty good at those, but I don't know if it's intentional.
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Jun 4, 2018 22:31
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I just realized I want a videogame whose loading screen hints take the form of life hacks. Life Hack: Eat food to recover health! Life Hack: Shoot enemies in the head to do more damage! Life Hack: Seek the Crystal of Phanaria in the depths of the Dungeon of Porg!
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Jun 4, 2018 23:04
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Samuringa posted:Just like hot dog water, you freeze it into ice cubes and put in drinks of visiting people you don't like This kills the bib.
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Dareon posted:I just realized I want a videogame whose loading screen hints take the form of life hacks. one of the loading screen hints from Krush Kill n Destroy was to look out for bugs in your glass when you go drink something at night
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Dareon posted:I just realized I want a videogame whose loading screen hints take the form of life hacks.
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Jun 5, 2018 00:21
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Also save all your pickle juice for when you're really hungover.
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This is like 50 posts ago but if you're going to do that you may as well just pour the water out while holding the spaghetti in with a spatula Edit now that I've read the rest of the thread: A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Do restaurants like that even have pasta water? I assumed that everything came in frozen/canned and they just heated it up. Most/good restaurants cook 10lb pasta at a time to very al dente, producing a lot of pasta water, then cool it down, then do the last couple minutes of cooking by heating up your pasta in the pan of sauce that the cook has made when you order it. Or they have a pot of hot water to finish the cooking before it's topped with marinara or tossed in mac and cheese sauce or whatever that was made earlier (or bought I suppose if we're covering our bases) and heated up in small batches for dinner service. om nom nom has a new favorite as of 07:23 on Jun 5, 2018 |
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Jun 5, 2018 07:11
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Dareon posted:I just realized I want a videogame whose loading screen hints take the form of life hacks. To defeat the Cyberdemon, shoot at it until it dies!
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Kaethela posted:To defeat the Cyberdemon, shoot at it until it dies! Lifehack: the Cyberdemon is huge, which means it has huge guts!
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Jun 5, 2018 12:00
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 Lifehack from DOOM 4 loading screen. Not a lost art!
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Jun 5, 2018 12:23
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I can't figure out how to get a section link on this stupid thing, but there were some pretty normal tips back in Office 97: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_products
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Plinkey posted:Also save all your pickle juice for when you're really hungover. Also save it to brine chicken in before you fry it. It's how Chik-fail-a does it. One weird trick homophobic restaurants that you shouldn't support don't want you to know! Fake edit: the "fail" typo was this iPad's autocorrect; I'm not only leaving it in there but stealing that joke. #Lifehack: have your crappy tablet make equally crappy humor for you!
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Lifehack: the Cyberdemon is huge, which means it has huge guts!
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This is a life changer. If you only have one bathroom at work, then you go first thing in the morning and piss all over the seat. When you have to poop later that day, you can come back and if there is still piss all over the seat, then you know that nobody else's rear end has touched it.
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Jun 5, 2018 15:40
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Same but with your desk.
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Jun 5, 2018 16:36
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Also save it to brine chicken in before you fry it. It's how Chik-fail-a does it. In what way is Chick-fil-A food bad? Their politics are bad, but their chicken is v good.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:How did that can opener end up working out for you? loving AMAZING. I forgot to say thanks for the suggestion!
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Jun 5, 2018 23:07
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No problem. That thing changed my life and I have no idea why it's not the universal standard design.
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Jun 5, 2018 23:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPu7_3IWjkY hack 1: make a prison shank! hack 2: toilet paper your hair hack 3: fffffffffffffff They cook steak with an iron, make a cup-o-soup with some beef inside a cooked bird, put tin foil in the toaster. Then they move on to syringes. I just got to the part where they use condoms but for the all the wrong reasons.
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a very wet possum posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPu7_3IWjkY Every single steak hack cooked that meat to oblivion. 
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:In what way is Chick-fil-A food bad? Nobody said it was.
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mozman posted:Every single steak hack cooked that meat to oblivion. Alot of people willingly order their steak cooked to oblivion. e: oh poo poo! Please don't start the steak derail!
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Rysithusiku posted:Alot of people willingly order their steak cooked to oblivion. A good piece of meat intentionally cooked well done can be very good. Not my preferred option, but not bad. Somehow I doubt that wrapping a bit of steak in foil and leaving it in the toaster for ten minutes is going to result in anything good.
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Also that one with the blow torch just turned it to straight up charcoal.
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I just wanted to see the reasoning behind pouring nail polish into a condom. Ofc it's clickbait.
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