Soft or firm pasta?

I love it when it cooked not firm not over-cooked. I love spag bolognese and i can eat it every dinner with cheese on the top coz i love more cheesy.

When I was a young girl, we didn't have lots of money. My mother would cook pasta so long that the noodles would expand to look like more food. It was so gross that the noodles would fall apart in my mouth without biting them. Now a days I like my pasta cooked enough to be able to chew them, but not overcooked. It gives a bit of chew which I like. I think overcooked noodles are not the texture I like. My children though seem to like over cooked noodles and sometimes say that I didn't cook the pasta long enough. LOL

I love and always make my pasta (al dente), I do not like soft overcooked pasta.

I don't like it mushy and overcooked, but I don't like it super firm either. I usually cook it the required time but turn off the burner 2 minutes before the timer goes off. It save me electricity and the pasta gets cooked perfectly.

Hello friends. Pasta MUST be firm, al dente. Otherwise is just like eat glue! Trust me, a good, firm pasta have a taste that nothing else can have. If you make a good sauce for the pasta too, is something really delicious.

As always pasta should always be firm. But there is a technique for that if you want if firm. I always like spaghetti and carbonara and i prepare it every once a week for my hubby. I do boil my pasta as per instruction given in the package. Then i will wash it off with cold water so that the taste of the pasta, which is a flour taste will be lessened and the pasta will taste and smell better. All the time i use to cook pasta, i have never encountered that i over cooked it, maybe its because you can see the strands very easily to determine if it's rightly done. You will never go wrong with pasta as long as you select a 100% semolina flour.

I prefer firmer pasta. If it's over-cooked, it can turn mushy, disgusting. I also add a little margerine or butter after it's drained so the noodles don't stick together. It's hard watching my carb intake...I haven't given up pasta, I like it too much :)