How To Select The Right Commercial Pasta Cooker For You

The whole family loves spaghetti for supper. It is cheap and healthy. Practically every diet plan ever invented allows for some carbohydrates. The trouble is draining the cooked product. If you are cooking for four people or more, a potful of spaghetti and several quarts of water gets heavy. Sometimes the colander falls over in the sink, and you lose a portion. The whole process is a lot easier and safer if you use a commercial pasta cooker.

There are several different types of spaghetti maker. The most basic don't even require you to use your stove top, although maybe you will need a microwave. The most straightforward way to cook spaghetti is to place it into a heat-resistant cylinder, pour boiling water over it and wait.

The simplest spaghetti-maker is a cylinder made of specially formulated plastic. You place in the uncooked spaghetti, add boiling water and wait. Using this method, you can have spaghetti and meat sauce at a cookout in the park or on a camping trip. Do not try this with your ordinary storage container. Common plastic will not tolerate boiling temperature, and you will end up with a huge, molten mass of plastic and pasta.

The most robust version is a soup kettle that comes with its strainer inside. The pot doubles as a vegetable steamer or, indeed, a soup kettle. The colander easily lifts out and lets you drain the spaghetti directly into the cooking pot.

A large kettle can be used to prepare a low country boil for a seafood boil. A seafood boil is a social occasion where this tasty southern specialty is eaten. The ingredients in a low country boil are shrimp, sausages, whole crab, potatoes and corn on the cob. Of course, there is nothing to stop you from experimenting with other types of seafood, like crawdads, lobdster, mussels, clams, etc. Cooks love preparing low country boils because all the activity takes place in a single pot. The meal is served on several thicknesses of paper (old newspapers are perfect) or oilcloth. This means no dish-washing at the end of the party.

At the high end of the scale are the electric, multifunction models. These are brilliant because you can use it as a slow cooker or a rice-cooker. Make sure you get the optional stirring attachment so that the device can cook your food evenly.

If you like your cookware to be good at multitasking, then the high-end electric version is for you. The same device can cook your pasta, rice, porridge, or roast chicken or stew, although maybe not at the same time. All you do is add the ingredients, select the program, hit the start button and wait. Perfectly kid-proof!

Any one of these devices can help ensure that you do not have a nasty accident with scalding hot water. Cooking macaroni, linguine, spaghetti, all forms of pasta, is safe and easy. Cooking pasta is an excellent way to introduce your children to cooking.

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