This Pasta Looks Easy. It’s Not.

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  @smithpauld1501 · 1 year ago (edited)

  It’s not ready until it looks ready. So much of this technique looks to me to require looks, sounds and, above all, patience. Lovely.

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  @palomino73 · 1 year ago

  Ironically, after several failures in preparing this dish following the videos of Italian chefs, obeying their instructions word for word, it was this silent video that finally helped me to achieve my goal of a creamy and not stringy portion of cacio e pepe !<br>Mille grazie, Signore Prokopyev!

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  @1_mensch · 1 year ago

  For people wondering, why this dish is hard: It&apos;s all about heat control, putting in the right amounts of every ingredient and timing. You preboil the pasta, but have to finish it in the sauce, otherwise the sauce won&apos;t be creamy enough. The pasta water needs to have the right amount of starch in it, otherwise it won&apos;t emulsify. If you take the pasta out of the water too early, the pasta will be undercooked and the water won&apos;t have enough starch. If you take it out too late, the pasta will be overcooked and the sauce also won&apos;t be creamy enough.<br>As soon as the pasta is in the sauce: If you use too much heat or cook it for too long, the cheese and the sauce will separate. If you use too little, the sauce won&apos;t emulsify and the pasta will be undercooked. <br>If you roast the pepper for too long or with too much heat, it will burn and ruin the dish. If you do it for too little, the dish will be somewhat blend and too sharp at the same time.<br>If you undercook the pepper, it will be too sharp. If you overcook it, the dish will taste like pepper only and you won&apos;t taste the cheese, enough.

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• DE

  @demonjoker123 · 1 year ago

  Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated, Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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• CO

  @Companion736 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W830FdF0yo8&amp;t=620">10:20</a> Never in my life have I wished so much that we could taste videos

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  @pedro3000 · 1 year ago

  Bro this is the first time I noticed how SPOTLESS your stove is 👏👏👏 Who cleans the stove ? They deserve a plate of Cacio e pepe of their own !!!

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  @Andinus3000 · 1 year ago

  As home cook, who has an electric stove top and has screwed this up quite a few times, toss your pasta off the burner in the pan and allow most of the steam to release before you add the cheese. You can always apply more heat later if you need it, but if you break the heat threshold to where the cheese starts to break and get stringy there will be no saving the dish.

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• OY

  @OysteinSvendsen · 1 year ago (edited)

  Ahh.. finally someone using a spatula to get ALL the cheese mixture out of the bowl 😊. I hate it when people only use a spoon or fork and there is something left, It drives me crazy !😧 😅.

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• QR

  @qrplife · 1 year ago

  This channel is great. When I retire from working with software and technology, I hope to be able to cook food for people.

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• DA

  @dayabloom9634 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W830FdF0yo8&amp;t=20">0:20</a> this one. Still hungry without this one.

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• IA

  @iammaxhammer · 1 year ago

  <b>How much cheese is in your pasta?</b><br><b>Guy that invested this recipe: &quot;Yes&quot;</b>

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  @gearoidwalsh8606 · 1 year ago

  This is a black belt dish. Much harder than it looks.

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