Students Start Fire Cooking Pasta Without Water
Ok, I can’t believe I’m about to tell this story, but I’m doing so because it needs to be a PSA about cooking basics. Get the details here.
By nowproducerdave on March 23, 2018
Ok, I can’t believe I’m about to tell this story, but I’m doing so because it needs to be a PSA about cooking basics. I realize that the current generation of college students was probably raised on pre-prepared and fast food (because working parents are busy and it’s convenient, probably), or just never watched or learned how to cook from their parents. But cooking pasta without water?
Some American students are part of a student exchange program and are studying in Italy. Perfectly normal, happens all the time. Problem was that they were hungry, so they ran down to the store and grabbed some pasta to make. Italy, right? “Pasta!” *kisses fingers*
The pasta the three students purchased wasn’t any sort of special pasta or anything like that; just your regular good ol’ pasta. What’s the first step when you’re cooking pasta? You fill the pot with water and bring it to a boil, right? These three 20-year-old students didn’t do that first step. They threw the pasta right into the pot, and cranked the stove up. It’s said that “within minutes” the linguini lingnited with flames erupting from the pot of their now probably horrible smelling dinner. So when the fire was pasta point of control, the students called the fire department. Firefighters arrive and extinguished the noodles, and began talking to the students about what happened.
Turns out that, according to the article, the firefighters didn’t know you had to cook pasta in water, either. When the story broke, a popular Italian chef and restaurant owner offered the girls a 4-hour cooking lesson with some of his chefs to cover all the basics. Check out the story here, and the original story in Italian here.
