You've Been Cooking Pasta Wrong And Wasting All That Flavour

The water is where most people quietly lose the plot.

The single biggest pasta mistake happens before the pasta even goes in: under-salting the water.

Pasta absorbs water as it cooks, so unsalted water means bland pasta all the way through that no sauce can fully rescue.

The water should taste properly seasoned. That's your one chance to flavour the pasta itself from the inside out.

And don't tip it all down the drain. A splash of that starchy cooking water helps your sauce cling and turn silky.