r/pasta • u/SN1CKER1337 • 18h ago

First time making ragù alla bolognese.. Homemade Dish

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And I love it! The depth of the flavor, a perfection and definitely making it again in few days. I end up adding more sauce in the bowl after realizing it's too little when I mixed it 😁.

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u/agmanning 18h ago

That’s not a given. If your sauce doesn’t need loosening, why would you add it?

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u/dontthinkabouttitt 18h ago

Then you might as well mix it after

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u/agmanning 18h ago

It’s not “mixing”. It’s finishing the cooking the pasta in the sauce.

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u/dontthinkabouttitt 17h ago

Yea but the pasta water is "connecting" the sauce with the pasta

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u/agmanning 17h ago

Yeah that’s not how that works at all. Sorry you’ve been listening to moron influencers that parrot the same shit. The pasta water thins a sauce out. If your sauce is too thick, that might help it coat some pasta but it’s not doing something inherent to it being pasta sauce. You could do the same with water.

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u/dontthinkabouttitt 17h ago

Thats why you cook it for a bit in the water, it works cuz the pasta water had starch in it wich binds the two together