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Re: Barilla passive cooker

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Post by ricardobeat »

Exmoor wrote: post #4

Not really "passive" cooking as you're just not actively pumping heat into already boiling water and just cooking pasta in steadily cooling water. You can actually soften pasta and many other similar foods by just leaving them in room temperature water for a much longer period. Some backpackers do this to reduce weight and it's been the only way I've ever prepared food while backpacking. Admittedly, cold noodles, oat…

Wait, how long would you soak rice to make it edible? I’d imagine it’s longer than 24 hours.

Re: Barilla passive cooker

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Post by femto113 »

The 80% less CO2 number is BS, since the claimed savings are only after "water boiling phase excluded". Guessing this is more like 10% overall, assuming you turn your stove down to a low boil after the pasta is in.

Re: Barilla passive cooker

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Post by ricardobeat »

jontro wrote: post #12

Not sure everyone agrees this is a good method Quoting from https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/can-passive-pasta-r... "The response was swift, and it came from starred chef Antonello Colonna. The Roman cook rejected Parisi's solution, claiming that with this procedure the pasta becomes "rubbery", and impossible to serve in a high-level restaurant. Colonna considers the method a failure and proposes cooking on a…

Burning wood or charcoal lowers the electricity bill? Who would have thought!

Also, what is “low-temperature technique” supposed to mean? The open fire needs to maintain the water at 100C regardless. If low-temperature means lower water temp, then its the same as the passive method..

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Post by mertd »

You can reduce the energy consumption drastically by boiling way less water than "a large pot" as every packet recommends. Just enough to cover the pasta + some evaporation margin is good enough.

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Post by hombre_fatal »

jontro wrote: post #12

Not sure everyone agrees this is a good method Quoting from https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/can-passive-pasta-r... "The response was swift, and it came from starred chef Antonello Colonna. The Roman cook rejected Parisi's solution, claiming that with this procedure the pasta becomes "rubbery", and impossible to serve in a high-level restaurant. Colonna considers the method a failure and proposes cooking on a…

Not worthy of a high end restaurant seems like pretty faint condemnation.

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Post by filleokus »

My dirty little secret I've only dared to shared with my closest friends (fearing social ostracism) is that I cook by pasta by putting it in cold water and then turn the heat on.

Roughly when the water starts to boil I start periodically checking the doneness of the pasta.

Works just fine for me. Would never dare to it when cooking with friends however (only slightly /s).

However, it would be neat with a device similar to the one in TFA, but more sophisticated. Having some internal model of pasta doneness as a function of the time in the water, and the water temperature over time.

Re: Barilla passive cooker

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Post by _whiteCaps_ »

ricardobeat wrote: post #21
Exmoor wrote: post #4

Not really "passive" cooking as you're just not actively pumping heat into already boiling water and just cooking pasta in steadily cooling water. You can actually soften pasta and many other similar foods by just leaving them in room temperature water for a much longer period. Some backpackers do this to reduce weight and it's been the only way I've ever prepared food while backpacking. Admittedly, cold noodles, oat…

Wait, how long would you soak rice to make it edible? I’d imagine it’s longer than 24 hours.

Typically you'd use instant / minute rice when backpacking.

Re: Barilla passive cooker

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Post by paxys »

A 145 year old pasta company just published open-source 3D printing models, Arduino circuit layouts & code and a bluetooth-enabled smartphone app on its website, that too with a decent sized marketing push. All so that you can build an overengineered kitchen timer from scratch in your bedroom. This is exactly the wild future I imagined as a tech enthusiast building cheap PCs two decades ago.
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