NEVER Pour Sauce Over Your Pasta Again — Try This Old ITALIAN Trick

Never pour sauce over your pasta again. In Italy, pasta finishes cooking in the pan, inside the sauce, and this one old trick changes everything. I'm Franco, and today I show you how to cook pasta the real Italian way: the 8 mistakes almost everybody makes at home, and the one rule that makes the sauce hold on to every single strand. Big pot, salted water, no oil, no rinsing, and a cup of that cloudy pasta water most people throw away. In Italy we call the last step mantecatura. WHAT YOU NEED (for 1 lb of pasta) A big pot with about 5 quarts of water About 3 tablespoons of coarse salt Your sauce, already warm in a wide pan A pair of tongs One cup of the pasta cooking water, saved before you drain Now be honest with me: were you putting olive oil in the water? Tell me in the comments. My wife says half of America does it. Let's find out if she's right. Next time: why your meatballs fall apart in the sauce, and the old fix my mother used. If you like the real Italian way, subscribe and sit at my table. #pasta #italianfood #cookingtips