I just tasted the pasta. I added salt to it which was a mistake because the sauce I bought also has salt in it. I now am beginning to understand how that "if I cook even the simplest of food I will somehow fuck it up and poison everybody" gag in anime works.

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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

Next time this happens, you can strain the soup and cook the liquid down, then re-add the pasta.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago

This water cooking is out of control, comrades!

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I now am beginning to understand how that "if I cook even the simplest of food I will somehow fuck it up and poison everybody" gag in anime works.

I once burned easy mac, the dumbed down version of mac and cheese where you just add water and microwave it. I forgot to add water and filled the dorm with smoke at close to midnight.

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

You and about 100 other freshmen in my dorm alone.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I now am beginning to understand how that "if I cook even the simplest of food I will somehow fuck it up and poison everybody" gag in anime works.

My version of that phase was me learning about all the flavors I have at my disposal and then experimenting mixing them to see what happens... and also fucking up measurements by mixing up teaspoons with tablespoons.

My experimental curry making days were fucking wild

[–] Alisu@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Worst thing I did with curry was make it too strong so it was pretty spicy. If I was any more white I couldn't have eaten it

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

I messed up the first time with tablespoons of coriander and turmeric instead of tablespoons of cumin, teaspoons of coriander, and a decent dusting of turmeric. And it was with an onion puree sauce base.

My lord it was rough

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

add some beans and you just made pasta e removedioli

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

pasta e removedioli

I don'tget it sicko-no

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

The Italian word for beans starts with a syllable that automated censors cannot distinguish from the F slur

[–] Bruja@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

pɑstɑ e fɑgioli

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[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You got censored but I was able to figure out what you meant

[–] blottica@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

beanis

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You just made a homestyle type of minestone

Happy little accidents can happen in cooking too.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

the children yearn for the

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

ngl I don't see the problem here

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

My pennes have been drowned walter-breakdown

[–] corvidenjoyer@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Is there a reason you had to keep the pasta in the soup instead of removing it and reserving it to fix the sauce?

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No, other than the fact that I ate it all.

[–] corvidenjoyer@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thats good. I was more worried that you couldn't salvage it for some reason. The way this was prepared might make an italian sad, mama-miba but its not the worst thing in the world. Your defintely not a failure here.

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

The way this was prepared might make an italian sad

Good

[–] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Then you are golden my friend.

As long as you're as cheap/flavour tolerant as me and will still eat it, there's no downside here. I made some truly weird and messed up shit when I first started cooking for myself, and it just helped me learn better.

Cooking for others is when the stakes are a bit higher, and I will never not be at least a little anxious about that.

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Cooking just takes practice. I was a chef at one point in my life, but as a kid I once accidentally replaced all the sugar in a brownie recipe with more flour. They tasted about as good as you'd imagine.

[–] pierre_delecto@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Water based cooking lol

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

U just made noodle soup, I fail to see the problem.

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's the tube pasta. The diagonally cut tubes.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

Unconventional noodle soup, with penne instead of shells

As long as it tastes good, there is no correct or incorrect shape of pasta for soup, imo. It's all a social construct imposed by anti-italian-action

[–] itsraining@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 days ago

So what? Still fail to see the problem

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

Pasta soup eh lea-think I like tomato soup and pasta so why not.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

you could try save the sauce/soup and try to make one pot pasta with it, but probably just eating soup pasta is easier

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

I need to see Italians with deep (and silly) beliefs about authenticity react to this. I once worked with an Italian that got very angry about American pizza. Pizza with tomatoes didn't even exist until nearly 1900 and wasn't popular in Italy until it was already popular in the US.

Perfect your pasta soup recipe, comrade.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

on the bright side at least you only did it by accident, when I make mac n cheese I make it this soupy on purpose

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

I see you've read the cookbook: https://hexbear.net/post/4970465

[–] Bruja@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Siblings or sibs would be shorter.

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

that's a good one