Pasta in your Thermomix! | Sophia's Kitchen

Have you ever tried cooking pasta in your Thermomix? Once you start, you'll never use the stovetop again! It's quick, easy... and so much fun to watch! We're also discussing a controversial topic: do you put oil in with your pasta while it cooks!? Let me know in the comments below!
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1200g water
1 tsp salt
300g spaghetti or linguine
Place the water and salt in the mixing bowl. Warm 10 Min. / 100C / Speed 2. Alternatively, boil the kettle, then pour the water in the mixing bowl and warm another 2 Min. / 100C / Speed 2.
Add the spaghetti through the lid opening and cook according to packet instructions 7-13 Min. / 100C / Reverse Speed 1. Instead of the measuring cup use the simmering basket on top of the lid.
Drain the pasta using the Varoma dish and serve immediately or place in a Thermi Servebowl to keep hot while you are making the sauce.

[@claudiadoliveira57]

Sophia my husband makes fresh pasta in huge italian pasta's factory. And they way it's done there, for tests, is: Cook the pasta, drain the water, once it's completely cooked, and put under cold running water to stop cooking. In the end, then, they put a Tsp of oil to stop sticking and shake gently.

[@alejandrarivera9130]

I boil water with sea salt, onion (half or fourth depending on the size) and 2 or 3 bay leaves. Try it and let me know if you like it. The pasta cooked this way tastes delicious just alone. Hello from México 🇲🇽

[@paperpodium8991]

I have always been under the understanding by adding a little oil to the boing water, helps prevent pasta from sticking to each other while cooking and while draining. Works for me and I will continue to keep using it.

[@klaudijabogdanovski2451]

Apparently a lot of Italian restaurants in Italy don’t use oil because it prevents the pasta from sticking to tomato based sauces. I heard it on a food travel documentary. This was coming from a chef at a renowned Italian restaurant.

[@teresafinoalchemy]

I'm Italian and don't add oil to pasta water. I'm following what my mother and grandmother have always done.

[@lintonpair]

Would it not be better to.use.the blade.cover??

[@shaunballard3614]

Hi Sophia. When you add oil to the cooking water, it coats the pasta and then the pasta does not absorb the flavor of the sauce. If you have leftover pasta, you want to store it with a bit of oil tossed in and save the leftover sauce in a separate container. The oil in the leftover pasta keeps it from sticking together and gumming up when you reheat it.

[@majascharff1483]

I heard that it depends on what you want the pasta for. It you want it plain (like for a pasta salad) or a bolognaise or tomato sauce, you add oil so the pasta doesn’t get to sticky. If you want it for a creamy sauce like a carbonara, or Alfredo sauce, don’t add oil, and the pasta will almost absorb some of the sauce.

[@zabrinaclark5230]

I don't add oil. The addition of oil came with the theory it would stop the pasta from sticking but if you're cooking the pasta in the right amount of water then it won't stick together anyway - just a waste of oil. Side note; do you cook other types of pasta in thermo in the same manner (e.g. macaroni etc.), do they end up mushed up?

[@EzeroJ]

Don't add oil, doesn't allow the sauce to stick to the pasta. Add afterward to plain pasta if you don't want it to stick together.

[@stefypaganoni5522]

I never put oil in the water: it prevents the pasta to absorb the sauce properly. But I add it after it drained and sauced

[@fiorenzab.4477]

Pasta needs to be stirred a few times anyway while cooking and that’s how you avoid sticking. Oil does not do the job. Washing it in cold water will wash out lots of the starches and will reduce the ability to absorb and mix well with the sauce, creating that perfect creamy texture, plus you wash part of its flavor off.

[@samnabroly7114]

2021🤗

[@scroberts8144]

Thank you ❤

[@Bucking_Fastard]

I do put oil into the pasta water, because that's how my mum and my grandma always used to do it, when I was a kid.

[@kathleenquinlan4316]

I used to, but these days I just add salt, as a result of hearing on cooking shows that oil should not be used.

[@SeekerAppleSwordSerpent]

Could using the blade cover work better or do you need to use the blade?

[@MeganTuffley]

For those asking about cooking smaller pasta, such as macaroni, penne etc., I most often cook in the sauce. I have a basic recipe on my the Australian Recipe Community that shows how to do this. www.recipecommunity.com.au/pasta-rice-dishes-recipes/creamy-bacon-pasta/wst78dbg-4dc85-428761-cfcd2-98zix4uh

[@christamillar3824]

I add a teaspoon of oil to stop the water bubbling out the top of the TM

[@lizstern7873]

I never use oil, it’s just not necessary, thanks very much for this vid, I have my thermomix for around 7 or 8 years and no one could tell how to cook pasta, so I am very thankful sophia to see this vid., if possible could you write what is the maximum water to add to the bowl and what is the maximum weight of pasta to cook at once? I usually cook at least 500 grams on the stove, is it ok to use the same amount with the thermomix? And can I cook any pasta in the thermomix, meaning not only spaghetti? I would be very great full if you can answer please, thanks again for the vid

[@milliegriffiths2666]

I don't add oil, on a Italian cooking show the chef said they do not add oil as the sauce dosent stick right

[@michelemcgill1720]

In Australia, the blade cover has been sold out since last year. Maybe made in China? Will try cooking pasta when it is back in stock.

[@DisneyMarkUK]

Hi Sophia, do the Uk models always come with a European plug? Thanks

[@sirsillybilly]

I’m a Chef, worked in Italian restaurants. Don’t add oil. Also you should cook pasta to water in a 1-10 ratio with water tasting like sea water. Seems this machine would be better suited to shorter pasta like penne. Don’t have this machine so I am skeptical about how well it works. Ok for 1-2 ppl but anymore and it won’t be enough water I think. May become stodgy.

[@petera4813]

Great camera angle

[@FlavioMarceloSousa35]

I use olive oil.

[@waqasahmed939]

Could you do the same for fusilli and penne?

[@gracenico]

adding oil may not allow the sauce to stick to the pasta.

[@jop864]

I always used to add oil, but I saw Gino d'Campo (Italian chef) on a cooking programme and he said not to add it, as Italians don’t. So now I don’t add it anymore.

[@EriCookieMonster]

Same, it was Giada?

[@user-kb2ur8zv7x]

I am a korean. thanks, today.

[@sylwiakrystek3139]

Hi love Could you tell me how to put the reverse buttom i had my termomix only 2 week . Many thanks

[@normalilia8863]

Sylwia, on the very speed circle there is a little image of the blades, touch it and it'll change to the reverse mode

[@beruberu7647]

Hello

[@giorgiomariano7094]

You don’t … seriously : no oil in the water please

[@richardbrooks4549]

So you spend £1200 on a machine that takes twice as long as a £5 saucepan to cook pasta and ends up with it wrapped around the blade. Hilarious!

[@normalilia8863]

it's just one very super tinny tiny thing that the thermomix makes.....