Hold up, pasta for breakfast, is that the real hack?

I mean is it really wastefull to throw away pasta water though?

I mean carbonara is basically bacon, egg, and cheese pasta…

How do you take your coffee?
“Al dente.”

Just put it in your plants

ZERO WASTE

It's about using something else's water for her coffee, so she doesn't use more water.

What’s more wasteful, throwing away used pasta water, or using one-use coffee filters?

You use the starch to thicken sauces!

...at room temperature and assuming you did not salt or oil the water.

Just chug the pasta water. All of it!

AKA made shit pasta

Don't worry! The coffee filter will see many more uses too! 😊

Sure but what else? If I am not making sauces I will just throw it away.

You should always be making sauce when you make pasta. Even if you are using jarred sauce, throw some of the (previously salted, you did remember to salt the pasta water before you cooked the pasta right?) pasta water in a saucepan and saute it then add the sauce and simmer. When it thickens up enough, add the pasta to the sauce and enjoy.

You can thicken soups too, anything you'd use flour to thicken.

I usually make the sauce before since it takes longer and I don't add any water or thickeners.

I don't thicken soups usually

You can also thicken stews and whatever Chicken Pot Pie is.

Just keep using the same water to boil pasta instead of throwing it!

And ffs, use a moka to make the coffee.

Just freeze the pasta water, then you can reuse it for the next pasta and you don’t need new boiling water

I'd have to save the pasta water then and that just makes no sense

I think its fine to leave the pot on the stove for 24 hours. After that, if it hasn't been boiled, I'd dump it.

Never considered carbonara a breakfast, but I guess I'm gonna have to try it now.

Better yet, keep it boiling and save the heat as well.

Yeah I'd then have to specifically plan to make something to use the pasta water every time I make pasta. A bit of a hassle for no discernible gain.

Throwing away a couple liters of water is not an issue where I live luckily.

You don't put salt in your pasta water?

What in my comment makes you say that?

Pasta TEA

The step before we missed.

Hey y'all made pasta from my toilet water. #noflush

You should try adding some pasta water at the end and simmering. Its a subtle but nice difference.

Perpetual pasta.

Use the pasta steam to run a turbine to power the stove

Moka Coffee
Cafe in San Francisco

What's a mokka?

Finally, an economical way to get more starch into coffee!

Freezing and thawing the pasta water is a huge waste of energy. Might as well just get new water from the tap.

Sorry, moka, a typo. It's this:

A traditional italian coffee machine. It's made in aluminium or steel, and the filter is also on the same material so you don't have to use one every time. They are extremely durable, with some passing from parents to children.

It sounded to me like you were equating putting salt/oil in pasta water to making shit pasta. The oil part I understand as it is literally useless but most people put salt in pasta water which is why I was confused by your comment

You need to combine the 3 comments.
You can put the pasta water into your plants - assuming you made pasta without adding oil or salt to the water - AKA making shit pasta

Like those ancient Chinese broths. My pasta water has boiled for ages

Makes sense now

I think a lot of people fail to understand the difference between "waste" (verb) and "use" (verb)

You missed the joke

ITS NOT BACON ITS GUANCALE REEEEEEEE

Is it easy to use? Won't it burn easily on the stove top?

Thanks. I thought it might be a joke but I really couldn’t tell. Some people really do think we should try to save water at all costs, not realizing that electricity is often more precious than clean water.

It was bacon first. Food purists are one step away from ethnic purists.

Nah they're like a better percolator, pretty easy to use.

Just put the water in the lower part (fill it just below the safety valve), add ground coffee to the filter, close it and put it into the fire. When the coffee is starting to get ready, you'll hear the charasteristic "gargle" and when it's done, a "whistle".

It's pretty easy to prepare coffee on them and I'd argue they make the best coffee of all.

Here a pic of an open moka so you can see the filter and the rest of the parts of it. It's a different model but it only changes the form factor.