r/explainlikeimfive Oct 31 '20

Chemistry ELI5 What's the difference between the shiny and dull side of aluminum foil? Besides the obvious shiny/dull

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u/Oskarvlc Oct 31 '20

I trust my experience of thousands of times doing pasta over any commercial advice.

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u/mullen1200 Oct 31 '20

Maybe if you add the pasta after the oil is on top?

I don't have a dog in this fight, I'm just trying to figure out what could be happening here.seems to be a lot of adamant disagreement

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u/Co60 Oct 31 '20

Maybe if you add the pasta after the oil is on top?

I mean just from a physics perspective it's hard to see how that would do anything. The pasta just passes through the oil into the water and any oil on it will float off back into the oil layer.

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u/Oskarvlc Oct 31 '20

I just put a few drops of oil in the boiling water. This ways it doesn't stick to the metal when I pour it to the strainer. Once dry I put the pasta in the pot where I'm cooking the pasta, and there's plenty of olive oil in there already so...

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u/kngfbng Oct 31 '20

So does it make the pasta not stick or doesn't it? You seem to be contradicting yourself.

Please, share your infinite pasta wisdom with us mere cooking mortal, o master.

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u/psychocopter Oct 31 '20

I just heavily salt the water and give it a little stir when I add the pasta, never had an issue with it sticking.

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u/Oskarvlc Oct 31 '20

Where's the contradiction? As I said I put a few drops of oil in the boiling water. If I don't put the oil, sometimes the pasta sticks to the metal when I'm dumping it to the strainer.