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A Funny Little Trick to Make Leftover Pasta Creamy Again
Because dried out fridge-pasta is a travesty, and together, we can eradicate it.
Photo by Bobbi Lin

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9 Comments
niknakx
May 27, 2020
hi there! i've been saving small jars of pasta water from when i make boxes of nicer dry pasta. how long do you keep your pasta water for? thanks!
Karen C.
May 28, 2020
Whoa. I would not really do that for long. If you freeze it maybe longer but I don't think that is probably very safe.
Lynda W.
October 31, 2019
It's Carbonara with Peas. But searching their site I am not able to find a recipe with this photo.
KS
October 31, 2019
I love the idea, but confess I'm a little scared about a forgotten, murky liquid aging in my fridge. Yikes. But I wonder if a bit of potato starch (not flour) in a water slurry would have a similar effect? I could make it fresh and control the thickness that way. And as a bonus, I'd get to use up some potato starch, which I now keep around because of Food52's Korean street pancakes.
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