6 Little Known Pasta Fundamentals that every great chef uses.

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There are over 10,000 pasta videos on youtube, but none of them explain the 6 fundamentals that every great pasta chef uses every time they make pasta.
📚 ALL VIDEOS, BOOKS, ETC REFERENCED IN THIS VIDEO:
▪ My videos:
- Is expensive pasta worth it?: • Is expensive pasta act...
- Why cacio e pepe is so hard to execute: • Why traditional Cacio ...
- Are you buying the right olive oil?: • Are you buying the rig...
▪ Italia Squisita Channel / italiasquisita
▪ Tuna Pasta: • Pasta col tonno: origi...
▪ Alex video on dried pasta: • How I Buy Pasta Like A...
▪ Anthony Bourdain Oprah Interview: • Anthony Bourdain: The ...
Recipes from my website:
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▪ Traditional - www.ethanchlebowski.com/cooki...
▪ Fiery Carbonara - www.ethanchlebowski.com/cooki...
▪ Spinach-Garlic: www.ethanchlebowski.com/cooki...
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- Books mentioned:
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- Mastering Pasta by Marc Vetri & David Joachim: amzn.to/3T7EIj1
Answer Key! Every moment fat was added in the [Tuna Pasta video]( • Pasta col tonno: origi... ):
1. Olive oil & basil are added to the tuna chunks to soak & infuse
2. Some of this oil is added to the pan to infuse with garlic and cook the tomato sauce
3. Chili oil is added to the cooking tomato sauce
4. More olive oil from the tuna bowl is added to adjust the sauce consistency
5. After plating, aromatic basil olive oil is drizzled over the pasta
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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:06 1 - Layering Salt
5:05 2 - Layering Fat
11:17 3 - Sauce Consistency
16:20 4 - Choosing the 'right' Pasta
18:43 5 - Ingredient Quality Matters
20:15 6 - Plate like a Pro
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@EthanChlebowski Жыл бұрын

Thanks again to Bright Cellars for sponsoring this video and for the limited time offer! Click here bit.ly/BrightCellarsChlebowski4 to get 50% off your first 6 bottle box! Hope you all enjoyed this type of video, I would love to do another covering another food category, let me know what you want to see ✊✊

@orzen_the_orzo933 Жыл бұрын

I'm literally the 1,000th like to this video

@edterryberry255 Жыл бұрын

Thanks man, appreciate the fact that you are cool to us who are starting out in the quest of fun cooking! Cheers

@southwest7977 Жыл бұрын

Great video.

@vigilanty123 Жыл бұрын

@juicykisses340 Жыл бұрын

Can you a breakdown like this to soups and stews since we are getting into the colder months?

@soundwave070 Жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention one extremely important step in the plating proces. Warm up your plate! In my experience pasta can cool down very quickly if you drop it on a cold plate. Put your plate or bowl in the oven while making the dish and serve it on a warm plate when done cooking. This is the easiest of all the small details that improve your eating experience as it is the only one you can't screw up, unless you forget it.

@huntstyle Жыл бұрын

An absolute must for carbonara!

@kennyboy6325 Жыл бұрын

Dude, I definitely forgot that step a few days ago. It's pretty cold where I live, but the change of season came up fast, this year. Simply forgetting that the cupboards get cold, made all my cooking efforts take a nose dive on delivery. Great reminder!

@ethelredhardrede1838 Жыл бұрын

I use plastic, its an insulator.

@heyheytaytay Жыл бұрын

That may make sense in a restaurant but why would u do that at home when you'll eat it immediately?

@huntstyle Жыл бұрын

@@heyheytaytay like he said, pasta cools very quickly. On a warm plate, it stays warm until the last bite. And for dishes like carbonara or cacio e pepe, it keeps the sauce creamy. Try it!

@snarks1532 Жыл бұрын

It's difficult watching other cooking KZfaq channels when you've got Ethan with this level of quality content, detailed, concise, and approachable.

@RawrFishAE Жыл бұрын

My favorite thing about Ethan is that there's no ego in his videos. It's not about him - it's about the food. Not going to name names, but I feel like there's been surge in channels that rely on a loud personality rather than an informative and honest approach to food. I'm so glad I found Ethan's channel.

@zoulzopan Жыл бұрын

agreed I am sick of watching 10 min recipe videos or meal prep videos. Which honestly it's just a bunch of the same recipes derivatives of classical ones but lazier. Very little videos of actual cooking info and practical ones at that.

@hesik22 Жыл бұрын

I also enjoy Adam Ragusea for this!

@pennylavendar6362 Жыл бұрын

@@RawrFishAE The food network and people like Gordon Ramsay really set a shitty precedent for cooking content.

@graceli9509 Жыл бұрын

cannot agree more!

@johnny39302 Жыл бұрын

Ethan. Best video yet. The deep dives that explain the “why” and not just the “how to” are greatly appreciated. More of these, please.

@greg76543210 Жыл бұрын

Agreed, this is a real “teach a man to fish” video vs basically all videos out there giving us a fish with a standard recipe. This is awesome.

@elise8116 Жыл бұрын

Information sticks best with me when I understand why, notnl just what or how. It just sticks in my head and I can remember it. Finally made fantastic roasted vegetables after watching one of his videos.

@livinlicious Жыл бұрын

Why is it better? Simple. It isn't!! He is comparing high class chefs with basic home cooks. Have you ever been to a normal restaurant around the corner? The food is just normal. Its not better or worse than you would have cooked yourself. Its just more convenient to pay, for someone to do: buying ingredients, cutting, cooking, serving, cleaning, running getting drinks. You dont pay for better food, you pay for convenience. Pasta for 8€ in the restaurant around the corner is just good/ok. Its not amazing. Pasta for 27€ at the 4,8star restaurant in your city, yes those will be amazing. When did you last make 4 potions with ingredients for 100€? Probably fucking never. Thats why this tastes like something you have never eaten before.

@ellethetransgirl3515 Жыл бұрын

if you like these kinds of vids you'll love Adam raguesa

@whitesonar Жыл бұрын

@@ellethetransgirl3515 as long as you like his smugness along with it, Ragusea is a douche

@barefootalien Жыл бұрын

My go-to emulsifier for suspension-based sauces is mustard powder. It takes a _shockingly_ tiny amount, and doesn't impact the flavor whatsoever. For a big pot of sauce for the whole family, say a gallon and a half, it takes maybe a quarter to a third of a teaspoon and a quick stir, and the separated oil slick on top of the sauce just vanishes, and the whole thing gets smooth and luscious!

@Quantickzz Жыл бұрын

Wow, never heard about that!! For someone who doesn't really see mustard powder sold, could I just put some mustard seeds in a mortar and pestle and grind them up?

@barefootalien Жыл бұрын

@@Quantickzz Yep! Though that will add a _lot_ more flavor. The pre-ground stuff is pretty flavorless, which makes it ideal for use as an emulsifier without changing the color or flavor much.

@taymck4144 Жыл бұрын

Mustard powder (and sometimes prepared mustard) is my secret ingredient in salad dressings and “au gratin” creamy cheesy baked veggie dishes (baked au gratin cauliflower, etc.). Mustard powder is my go to emulsifier-a tiny bit in a homemade vinaigrette and your dressing stays cohesive and delish ! I’ve never used it in a tomato sauce though, so love your comment as now I’m going to have to try it!

@catherinedean3796 Жыл бұрын

WOW. Never knew that! I now have a reason to use the mustard powder in my mom's cabinet 😂

@saverna1 Жыл бұрын

Yes mustard powder is the secret ingredient in many dishes including collard greens made with Ham Hock, the only way to keep them from being greasy when plated.

@johnkarakash Жыл бұрын

My wife's a vegan so creamier sauces were tough UNTIL we came across cashew cream. It's basically boiled raw cashews, blended like crazy usually with a non-dairy milk. It provides an AMAZINGLY creamy base for all manner of sauces. The flavor is very neutral and takes up flavorants well while providing that nice mouthfeel. I honestly prefer it to some milk-sauces and it's a lot less finicky than some.

@YeeSun Жыл бұрын

Totally agree! When a sauce requires cream it makes me cringe how much you need to pour it in. I rather use cashew cream. Unfortunately, cashew nuts are grazy expensive! Especially the raw cashews

@cproteus 6 ай бұрын

@@YeeSundo you know how cashews are harvested?

@NoZenith 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the hint!

@RunninUpThatHillh Ай бұрын

Cashews=seed oils. Heating any seed/nut (including its juice) turns it rancid. Oleic acid through the roof. Don't do toasted or cooked seeds yikes.

@critter42 Жыл бұрын

+1 on Alex's Pasta series ("deep dive" is a bit of an understatement I think - his quest for dried pasta at home gets wild)

@g0mikese Жыл бұрын

Since Alex's pasta series I'm buying better pasta (even for "weeknight cheater" dinners where we use jarred sauce with some added browned ground meatball mix or Italian sausage and herbs) and it's made a huge difference just knowing what to look for when buying.

@jessehachey2732 Жыл бұрын

That Alex dude is cringe AF, don’t know how y’all have the patience to watch him, his content is childish in comparison to this well-researched experiment!

@jupyterkin Жыл бұрын

@@jessehachey2732 You say its childish but to me its someone that is genuinely enjoying his research and having fun doing what he does.

@hardcoreplur Жыл бұрын

I feel like Alex hit the obsessive nerd phase in his chef's journey; Ethan is like the engineer, compiling all the info and making something useful with it.

@g0mikese Жыл бұрын

@@hardcoreplur I'd kinda' agree with that. Alex goes above and beyond what any home cook will ever bother with. No one is building his pasta drier. No one is building a home made Wok grill, nor are they even making their own dough laminator. But watching him do that stuff will help you understand why that stuff matters, and how much. It will help appreciate the pros out there and help set your own expectations for achievement in your home kitchen. And if you want to go nuts about it.... it might provide direction.

@TheBlueEspeon Жыл бұрын

Definitely keep making vids like this, I love the food science and easy breakdown of concepts. I'd say that your channel is like 60% of the reason I've become a much better cook over the past year and a half.

@katietoo7754 Жыл бұрын

I’ve never had pasta at a restaurant that was better than what I make at home. I have always followed not only these rules but a few more as well, including making my own sauce, canning my own tomatoes, and growing my own herbs.

@scottf3456 Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@alanmonaghan8970 Жыл бұрын

Same here, although I think that's more to do with where I live and the quality of restaurants/ chefs than my own skills 🤣 I did try Jamie Oliver's Italian once, was pretty underwhelming.

@michaelkores6860 Жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking when I read the title. I would say my homecooked food is better than the food served in 80-90% of restaurants but to be fair I can afford best quality ingredients that a normal restaurant cannot buy because they would raise the prices for their dishes so high noone would buy them. I only go to restaurants when travelling but lately I found the quality in many restaurants is so underwhelming you would have a nicer "dinner" just buying a high quality sandwich.

@erwintimmerman6466 3 ай бұрын

@@michaelkores6860 I found the same thing, when I go to most restaurants I think "I can make this better". I thought it might be because my own cooking had improved (it has), but it's just because the restaurants have become worse? Is that a post-covid thing? You'd think all mediocre restaurants wouldn't have survived that period.

@michaelkores6860 3 ай бұрын

I think that more and more restaurants use too much convenience products and frozen products because they save manpower and labour is most expensive (don't forget that it was common until some years ago to avoid taxes and pay your staff partly in cash which isn't that easy anymore).@@erwintimmerman6466

@kennyboy6325 Жыл бұрын

I love these videos. As a young man, it was Alton Brown who really struck me and gave me the inspiration to cook, myself. Most of the time that was due to the breakdown of science, technique, method, interpretation, history, etc. You are really expanding on the aspect of "cooking media" that got me into this, in the first place.

@chrominox Жыл бұрын

Ethan, your videos are so well structured, written, edited and have a positive approach. It takes a lot of nuance to make these things accessible to home cooks. Thank you, mate. BTW, if you ever consider making that Torchys Diablo Sauce, I'll be looking for that notification.

@EthanChlebowski Жыл бұрын

Thank you! This video was a bear to nail down the script in a coherent way, so glad to hear that it hit the mark!

@2AZSUN Жыл бұрын

@@EthanChlebowski No worries, it hit the mark, and then some. I’ve never given so much thought to pasta, but this all makes so much sense. Exceptionally well done. But then again, so are all your vids.

@ZhovtoBlakytniy Жыл бұрын

@@EthanChlebowski I definitely come to your channel to understand the method of cooking more than just a recipe. I've learned a lot here! Thank you 😊👍

@aris1956 Жыл бұрын

Here it also depends on which restaurant one goes to eat ! Because in most cases, I as an Italian, the pasta dish I make at home is much much better than many restaurants ! (and here I am particularly referring to so many so-called "Italian" restaurants around the world).

@scottf3456 Жыл бұрын

Yup, grew up with an italian mother. Going oit for italian is a waste of time and money.

@lexaray5 Жыл бұрын

I'm not Italian but I lived in Naples when I was a kid and I find 99% of the pasta from American "Italian" restaurants boardline inedible.

@faolandunphy5392 Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the blend of art and science. As a (now) former chef and science nerd, I really got into Alton Brown's Good Eats back in the day. Your channel really brings me back to that. Subscribed. Thank you!

@LastbutNotFirst Жыл бұрын

alton has a youtube with his wife

@faolandunphy5392 Жыл бұрын

@@LastbutNotFirst is it still quarantine quitchen? I watched a couple. It’s not Good Eats. And sometimes you just gotta move on to next.

@timhaubeil Жыл бұрын

Hot/warm plates are another key thing for me, especially when it comes to dairy & emulsion based sauces. If the pasta cools down to quickly, the sauce will thicken up too much and give the impression of being dry, especially as the parm topping is mixed in while eating.

@mentalasylumescapee6389 Жыл бұрын

yeah but remember pasta cools down too much in a restaurant because all their chefs and waitreses are running around like headless chickens trying to make 10 other dishes other dishes and people happy at the same time, they can easily forget serving time within 1-10 minutes or longer. Meanwhile at HOME it's just YOU and the PAN you Eat as SOON as it's settled. you don't need a hot/warm plate at home only restaurants need it.

@timhaubeil Жыл бұрын

@@mentalasylumescapee6389 I used to work at an Italian restaurant and we'd get the pasta out to the table within 2 minutes as the absolute max. With heat lamps and hot plates there was hardly ever an issue. If I cook for myself, I sometimes just eat right from the pot. It also depends on the sauce, a tomato-based sauce won't need hot plates so much, but if you let an dairy based sauce like Alfredo or an emulsion based sauce like Carbonara cool down even a little too much it's one big sticky mess.

@mentalasylumescapee6389 Жыл бұрын

@@timhaubeil what did you serve "2 minute noodles"? HAHAHAHAHA

@jackwilliamtaylor5656 Жыл бұрын

One of my all-time go to pasta recipes is the tomato pasta Andrew from About to Eat made in his “how I cooked 20 pounds of tomatoes” video. Adding the basil and garlic right near the end before blending it absolutely transforms the flavours of the dish

@hopesprings4967 Жыл бұрын

I really loved the canned tomato video. I was pretty happy to hear that I wasn’t being fooled by spending more for the DOP San Marzano. I am seriously digging these types of videos.

@fdwyerSDMM Жыл бұрын

"There are over 10,000 pasta videos on KZfaq - I, myself, added probably at least 20" that had me rolling. Thanks you are humble but good.

@danielgrabowski5436 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely superb video. If you've been a fan of Ethan's and have been watching him for some time now as I have, this video is a culmination of tips he has passed on through prior videos. One thing to keep in mind, practice makes perfect. Whether it be pesto or even the very simple Marcella Hazan tomato sauce, every attempt will help you dial in your consistency and execution. Don't sweat it if you think you "failed" the first time. Pasta is finicky business. This is just a very thoughtfully put-together general instruction manual. Well done sir. I think this will be the blueprint to which many home cooks turn when searching out how to become better at making pasta.

@filip2175 Жыл бұрын

You’re raising the bar higher and higher with each video. Way to go man My way of making homemade pasta be more restaurant grade is to plate smaller portions haha

@beauvogames Жыл бұрын

Excellent, comprehensive breakdown. This feels a bit like a sequel to your "why are restaurant vegetables better?" video and honestly, I'd love to see more of these, this would make for a fun series. In fact, this video easily could have had a title more in line with that previous video, like, "Why are restaurant pasta dishes so much better than homemade?" Awesome work as always Ethan 😊

@gabrielebianchi8976 Жыл бұрын

Hello, great video I would like to add an element though - When I was in college I thought that pasta shape was something that I could really save some pennies and shelf space, however I think the pleasure you loose is not worth it the savings. Oil based sauces (e.g. pesto genovese; olio aglio peperoncino) -> flat string pasta like spaghetti or bucatini - you don' t really want to eat all that oil. Tomato loose sauces (e.g. puttanesca; tomato sauce) -> shaped pasta like orecchiette, penne, mezze penne - the sauce gets in the shapes Thick sauces (e.g bolognese; carbonara) -> Flat rough pasta like tagliatelle and fettuccine -grip better the little pieces of meat Soups -> ditalini, stelline - seriously I don't know why to buy them at all. As side note: Fusilli are like a "joker" in deck of cards for oil and loose sauce pasta - please no fusilli carbonara, please. Paccheri and cannelloni are nice to be stuffed. Farfalle, ruote and other arguable shapes - I highly encourage to leave them on the shelf.

@j3ffn4v4rr0 Жыл бұрын

I made cannelloni marinara one time. _One_ time. 🤣

@RetardedGoat16 Жыл бұрын

For cacio e pepe, I figured out a helpful visual cue to avoid stringy sauce since I don't have a thermometer. I simply wait until there's little to no steam coming off the pasta.

@Exentio Жыл бұрын

Ethan, I'm a huge fan, I'm learning so many things from you and your videos and I'm so glad I ended up on your channel many months ago! I'm italian (as in "from Italy") and during the whole video I was like "... we don't cook like this"; but then when I was trying to explain what was different I just... didn't know how to explain it? Italian cuisine is really deep into habits, traditions, and instinct, so it's not easy to say why the ways you cook pasta look so alien to me. So you know what? I'm perfectly ok with this video, it may be far from italian traditions, but that's fine, you never had the presumption to call it traditionally italian and I embrace different interpretations of our cuisine, it's also very informative and many of the things you explained are things I do instinctively, which will benefit those who lack this kind of "tradition-induced instinct"! P.S. just put no water in aglio e olio like we do in Italy and you'll never mess up the sauce :) I've been using a wok to make mine lately as it allows me to better dial in the quantity of oil and mix it into the pasta

@CaptHollister Жыл бұрын

I think it was Nigella Lawson who said "fat is taste". Certainly my elderly aunts in Italy practiced that, but never more than in making carbonara. When preparing the sauce they only use part of the fat rendered from the pancetta (sorry, but they don't use guanciale) and reserve the remaining fat. After the sauce and pasta have been well mixed, they mix in the remaining pancetta fat. Yes, you can feel your arteries hardening just looking at it, but OMG is it ever good !

@thefifthofnovember5 Жыл бұрын

Crazy how well made these videos are. Very well thought out, everything you need to know, things you never even considered but actually really matter, all shot very well, with nothing you don't need.

@lateknightucd Жыл бұрын

Mark Ventri’s egg yolk pasta is so legit. It’s my go-to fresh pasta dough for sure!

@craigathonian Жыл бұрын

The only thing i enjoy seeing is someone talking about a subject that THEY themselves are enthralled and impassioned by. Thats pretty much why i love watching anything created by Ethan. Thanks for all the great lessons and high-level quality production creations. This channel is such a high caliper level it's easy to forget you're not nationally syndicated....but defiantly should be. You're GREAT !

@robinisathakur Жыл бұрын

My favourite Italia Squisita video is the one from Luciano explaining the 5 basic ways of cooking pasta and obviously his carbonara and Cacio Pepe videos. A visit to Rome is still the best way of understanding Roman pasta dishes. The mouthfeel, and the correct flavour profile are hard to get if you don’t know what ‘good’ tastes like. Getting the correct ingredients is still challenging in a lot of Europe, let alone in America, like proper Bronze-die pasta (De Cecco is alright if you can’t get the good stuff like Monograno Felicetti), Guanciale, Pecorino Romano but online is a good idea.

@rachelbrand 9 ай бұрын

this and the garlic one are just everything i've ever needed to make the greatest aglio i olio in existence (the babish "chef" recipe + a small amount of very finely chopped raw garlic in the pan in the last seconds of cooking just to add a little bit of pungency + the addition of fresh parm and crisp garlic chips as garnishes). me and my husband ate an entire 500g -- basically a pound -- pot of pasta in a single dinner bc it was just TOO delicious. thank you so much, ethan!

@cerebrumexcrement Жыл бұрын

i rarely find better pasta than what i make at home.

@Kat-oz3zy Жыл бұрын

I have really upped my pasta game in the past three or four years, and this video would have been really nice to have through that journey. 😂 That said, these are great fundamental concepts! I’ve been casually watching your videos for a while but this pushed me to subscribe. 🎉

@wrgy Жыл бұрын

i really want a video like this on fried rice explaining the science and giving comparisions between the execution of different recipes

@qBeYcarpet Жыл бұрын

The graphs always visualize everything so well

@K_amen2306 Жыл бұрын

Ethan your videos are so analytical and educational! I feel I'm turning into a professional from a home chef with your knowledge! Thank you!!

@TimothyMCoulter Жыл бұрын

Your series of videos that break down the step-by-step information like this has elevated my cooking to fantastic levels. I find myself a great deal more inventive and exploratory in the kitchen, and it is all thanks to you. Thanks, Ethan. Your videos are amazing.

@medolus6490 Жыл бұрын

I am always impressed that you turn food into a science. That's why I like your channel.

@marilynyunker4664 4 ай бұрын

My word! You and your video are filled with info that no one (including your grandmother), no book, no internet link, and no other video impart to we searchers of the keys to upping our meal prep. Thank you so very much for sharing the approach or road map to finer pasta dishes. At 74 years and hopefully continuing to count for many more to come, thank you for sharing your secrets! This grandmother will place your secrets on top of the pile to try to pass on to my grandchildren.

@dakotareid1566 Жыл бұрын

This is the most informative channel I’ve ever seen

@ReubenNinan Жыл бұрын

Damn I just love how detail and well organized your videos are. They make so much sense and are helpful af

@user-xb5rl6wt5j Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this, love this type of video. I feel like home cooks like me learn to really cook by thinking like a chef and understanding why you're doing what you're doing rather than just following recipes. Definitely make this a series!

@languagechefcorey Жыл бұрын

Nice in the aglio e olio to reserve some (or all) of the sautéed garlic and add it on the top :) gives a nice visual/texture contrast, i find when i add the water directly to the garlic it just gets kinda wet/disolves. when you add it on the top it tastes amazing and looks beautiful.

@andrewpetersen203 Жыл бұрын

Always enjoy watching these deep dives into the theory/science of how to make foods taste better and trying to incorporate the lessons into everyday cooking. Thanks for all of the awesome content!

@originaltommy Жыл бұрын

One of your best yet. You and Adam Ragusea I follow with great interest as you get behind the science in cooking and not just whipping together whatever. Thank you.

@theamazingfreak Жыл бұрын

Hi Ethan. Thank you for a great video. This brings back great memories for me. My mother was born in Italy and her family came to Australia. I was the first-gen Aussie, lol. I remember as a kid making sauces and soups, there was a dedicated pasta rolling board that had its own place on hooks on the back door to the kitchen. As a kid, I grew up making fresh pasta and potato gnocchi We had a small garden and when the tomatoes were in season we made polpette and preserved it. I grew up with real Italian food, despite living in Australia. I hope the situation is better where you are. Here I have been to many Italian restaurants here and have always been disappointed. The food has never been as good as my Nonna's. Best wishes.

@ikkuhyu4395 Жыл бұрын

Some other easy tricks to increase your pasta flavor are: - add beef stock to your cooking water rather than (just) salt. I tend to throw in 1/2 a cube of knor bouillon and only salt my pasta after it is cooked and rinsed. - include a ballance of all basic tastes (salt, sweet, sour, bitter [and umame]) in your dish. I add a bit of nutmeg, dried basil (both add a bit bitterness), vinegar, ketchup (adds sweet) and fish sauce to my spaghetti tomato sauce. - include some type of onion, sjalot and/or garlic to your sauce (if somehow you weren't) These tricks make your pasta taste much richer.

@rasmusbertelsen Жыл бұрын

I love these "meta" deep dive videos where you teach how to think differently about a category of foods. Please make more!

@SkyWKing Жыл бұрын

Having a chemistry background really helped me figure out these things myself. I think one thing you missed in this video is the amount of water: always use barely enough water to immerse the pasta to maximize the concentration of your starchy water. A pan is much better than a pot for boiling pasta. Restaurants use those huge pots because they cook lots of batches of pasta and the water gets very concentrated for amazing sauce creation. In fact I would argue a lot of sauces are impossible to make at home using a large pot and lots of water to boil pasta unless you are making huge portions for a party. And BTW, the "grandma's way" of adding olive oil into the water doesn't work. I really really love Carbonara because it's entirely self-contained and fool-proof. You don't need to add any extra fat, salt, and emulsifier because every component to make good pasta is built-in to the ingredients. I generally don't like the idea of traditional water-based pasta sauce because it's just plain inferior to using emulsifiers/stabilizers. Making pasta sauce follows the exact same theory as making good stir-fry sauce: in traditional stir-fry technique chefs always use a starch slurry to create an emulsion to get a glistening saucy dish instead of a greasy/watery mess.

@schreiberinjen Жыл бұрын

I agree with you about the amount of water. Found that out for myself.

@shannong8362 Жыл бұрын

"I generally don't like the idea of traditional water-based pasta sauce because it's just plain inferior to using emulsifiers/stabilizers." Starchy water is an emulsifier. So pasta water is an emulsifier by definition as it is starchy water. You even say it yourself in the last sentence. Use starchy water (starch slurry). So you're saying your method of using starchy water is inferior somehow to other techniques?

@davidhinds7013 Жыл бұрын

Truly enjoying your more in-depth videos on techniques and food science. They seem very well balanced and provide just the right amount of information for home cooks like myself that are trying to up our game a bit while holding down a day job. Good old fashioned recipe videos are of course always appreciated, but please keep these instructional/deep-dive vids coming, too!

@KalebPeters99 Жыл бұрын

This was fantastic, Ethan. A veritable compendium of pasta knowledge. Bravo! I would love to see more like this for other dishes 🙏

@libbypetersen3523 Жыл бұрын

Great info. One detail--I struggled with background music volume (and random diversity of musical styles/moods) in this video. It was often distracting & hard to hear your voice--don't remember music standing out in other vids. Please consider for those of us with some hearing loss and/or executive functioning challenges--thank you!

@morganhough1022 Жыл бұрын

I now want to scrap my plans for lentil soup and make pasta for dinner to practice my newfound thinking like a pasta chef!

@JudyCZ Жыл бұрын

Love this video! The biggest step by far in my home cooking of pasta was the emulsification. It makes such a difference to properly agitate the pasta and get the pasta properly coated by the sauce and get it all smooth and silky. Game changer.

@shannong8362 Жыл бұрын

It's also important to understand that the flavor compounds of some herbs are water-soluble while others are fat-soluble. So depending on which herbs and aromatics you're using, that changes how you cook with fat in your dish. Are you using a lot of fat-soluble herbs such as rosemary or thyme? Then probably best to give them a brief sauté in the beginning while starting your onions in olive oil, for example. Working with parsley, cilantro, or basil which are waters-soluble then you can simply include them in your watery sauce during the simmer. So in a tomato sauce, just toss the basil in towards the end, which also degrades quickly in heat.

@the1337fleet Жыл бұрын

This channel seriously needs more subscribers with all these good insights. Not just information--INSIGHTS. Stuff that isn't obvious or typically shared by other people, and in a very organized fashion too. 1.29M subscribers isn't enough!

@leonardcastelleneta26 Жыл бұрын

nothing beats the pasta at home, im Italian of course. seriously no one in my home would ever eat pasta out.

@OriasRofocale Жыл бұрын

Oh I totally get this. I detest getting pasta out. It never tastes right when someone else makes it and it's so expensive!

@nomad6-1 Жыл бұрын

Yes, of course for us, Italians, it's so much better to make pasta at home, you can adjust it to your tastes, and we can easily make a plate that will put most 'Italians restaurant' abroad to shame. Another issue is especially because if we want to eat a respectable quantity (which in my book is at least 150g of dry pasta per person, but I guess I'm a very hungry dude), you would go out to the restaurant and sometimes they give you only half of that for 15-20€/$, while at home you can make it for 3 or 4. If you cook something else, like meat, you don't save the same amount of money compared to buying a meal from a cheap restaurant or food truck or kebab-type joint.

@j3ffn4v4rr0 Жыл бұрын

Okay, for you Italians, I get what you're saying, but do you eat at restaurants much at all? When you do, what do you like to get instead of pasta?

@nomad6-1 Жыл бұрын

@@j3ffn4v4rr0 Most Italians go out to eat pizza (unless you have a wood oven at home and serious skills it's not easy to make). We also go out a lot to eat fish and meat dishes, which are harder to make home compared to pasta and there's less of a price difference between cooking them home and eating out. Of course we also often eat pasta out, however as I said before paying 15/20€ instead of 3-4 for basically the dame thing is not very convenient. If there's any event, like holydays or birthdays or graduations and stuff, we typically eat a multiple-course meal at the restaurant, and pasta is very likely going to be "primo" or "first dish", which comes right after the appetizer. We would typically only get 2-3 pasta dishes even if we are 10 or 20 people, so the kitchen of the restaurant can make it faster and deliver it in huge plates from where everyone takes how much they want to eat. Eating carbohydrates at the start of the meal gives you high glycemic index (% of sugar in your blood), which in turns gets you a lot more hungry exactly at the times the "seconds" come, meat or fish high in protein and fat that go down a lot easier in this phase. That's how everyone, even children or small people can bare to eat 5000cal a meal on celebrations (and Christmas time in southern Italy maybe even more).

@amarissimus29 Жыл бұрын

Right? I guess we were spoiled by having the actual grandmother instead of the fake one on the jar. Sauce was made every week, frozen and distributed to family. I've never, ever had red sauce that was better than my grandmothers. It's impossible for people to appreciate the real thing. Like telling the colorblind about rainbows. As far as properly cooking any decent pasta, anyone who can't get that right might as well move into a zoo.

@sedalionthunder6295 Жыл бұрын

This is a great video, it’s on the “why” something is rather than a “how” to video 😊

@casolo8107 Жыл бұрын

I loved this video. I was surprised at how much difference it made using better pasta. I had always thought the brand didn’t matter so much until Alex’s videos. I appreciate all the tips.

@Ansonr Жыл бұрын

Ethan your videos are fantasticly informative. Will you do more fast food races with your brother?

@morganhough1022 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see more of these, I quite enjoy them!

@EthanChlebowski Жыл бұрын

Yep! We just got done filming another one of those too, should be out in a couple weeks 👍

@Ansonr Жыл бұрын

@@EthanChlebowskiAwesome! Your channel has been an inspiration to get me back in the kitchen. Keep doin what you do!

@afterthesmash Жыл бұрын

For me, pasta is mostly a hearty, volume meal. My sauces are deep and rich, I never skimp on the fat, and I'm plenty happy with the results. If I feel like artisanal cooking, it's not usually pasta that gets my attention, though I do make my own fresh pasta when the mood strikes and then I try for a fussier sauce.

@supervitz7178 Жыл бұрын

Great video Ethan. For me, understanding how to exploit salt and fat and using a better quality pasta did so much to my pasta dishes. I rarely feel like ordering pasta out because i actually enjoy the pasta I make now!

@Threeninesix Жыл бұрын

Id love to see you do a deep dive on how to work with lower quality food and how to compensate with them.

@meh-87 Жыл бұрын

With this video and the recent bacon one I feel like I'm learning some really useful stuff. Enjoying the direction you're going in with this channel.

@sechay9328 Жыл бұрын

Dude what a level up. I have been following you since 40k and this new level of production tells me you are on the way right now. Way to apply years of learning and make it accessible. I am passing this along to a fellow teacher of mine who runs the cooking classes at my school.

@jaggyseagull1876 Жыл бұрын

You're already getting praised left and right, Ethan. But I just want to say you are far and away the best cooking channel on KZfaq. I was actually on the phone with my brother, talking about how much I love your videos. Your way of teaching concepts rather than recipes helps so much in the kitchen. I just made pasta using the risotto-style method you talked about in your other video. It turned out fantastic. I will be applying some of the things in this video the next time. Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. You are awesome!

@kravgirl4 Жыл бұрын

Super helpful! I found this channel when someone one on Reddit recommended it & subscribed right away. Thanks for making this stuff seem accessible to home cooks!

@lesliefoldy2767 Жыл бұрын

Love this. Ethan, you are so knowledgeable. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I made a sausage/fennel pasta last week using your FABULOUS risotto method -- my husband took a bite, looked up and said, "Wow." 💞

@jerolvilladolid Жыл бұрын

Pasta is incredibly hard to learn the first time. But when you’ve made your first successful “pasta”, you will ALWAYS make great pasta for the rest of your life even if blindfolded

@dreamervanroom Жыл бұрын

I differ. Pasta is incredibly easy to make the first time. That makes a person want to make and eat it more. After that it's just improvement.

@seileen1234 Жыл бұрын

Pasta hard? Just boil water, add salt, add pasta, wait 9 minutes (or the pasta type time on the package), and done. Seriously how is this difficult? It's super basic stuff

@jerolvilladolid Жыл бұрын

@@seileen1234 can you eat that on its own? Pasta has a sauce. It takes many many tries to finish a savory, restaurant style “pasta” instead of the kiddie pasta at dennys you come up with on your first 5 tries.

@seileen1234 Жыл бұрын

@@jerolvilladolid I'm Italian. Just take some olive oil, garlic, tomato sauce and basil. Takes literally the time of the pasta to make, super easy and fast and really tasty. Another one? Just chop one onion, use some olive oil, and some canned tuna. Same time as above Oh, and you know we eat pasta with just some butter and parmigiano? Or just with olive oil? Yes, the horror! No garlic, no bacon, no tomato, no parsil, no strange techniques or other bullshit fake Italian ingredients. Just put butter and cheese over coocked pasta, it's simple but good, so yes, you can do it. Italian cuisine is simple but everyone outside Italy seems to have the need to overcomplicate everything, so please, just follow the ultra basic instruction and your cuisine will be unironically more Italian than Gordon Ramsey or Jamie Oliver as those people for example add oil to the pasta water (jesus christ wtf) just to appear fancy. It's just useless and stupid, like garlic or onions in carbonara

@scottf3456 Жыл бұрын

@@seileen1234 no doubt about it. Pasta is the exiest thing in the world to make. It's like saying oatmeal is hard to make.

@Joe___R 3 ай бұрын

Pasta water should really always have the same salinity. Then, it is a constant, and you can easily adjust your sauce and toppings accordingly. If the pasta's saltiness varies, then you have to adjust every recipe after instead of being able to make it the same every time.

@LouieLouie505 Жыл бұрын

I love your videos. Instructive, well-edited, and varied. I have used them in my college courses to show students how to look at topics in a complete fashion and explain findings.

@kat7504 Жыл бұрын

Ethan is the Jeff Nippard of cooking.

@ZackZeysto Жыл бұрын

I think you have come a long way with your pasta journey. I love your pasta videos and this video brings it all together. So really perfect to start with this video and get lost into all the rabbit holes later (good links to your additional videos). Just a perfectly defined and thought out video here

@hollish196 Жыл бұрын

Great video. I have done this sort of layering to some degree just because common sense made it reasonable. Nice to see it clarified

@moonbabyprime Жыл бұрын

Ethan, you remind me a little of Alton Brown, and that warms my heart. I am a long time (many years) fan of Good Eats and watch the repeats whenever possible. I am having trouble imagining how I might incorporate some of your ideas from this episode into our family meals. I am the grandmother in a household of six. Three grandsons between 8 and 13 means pasta night is 3 lbs of pasta cooked in whatever way seems most expedient. I think your sauce suggestions are helpful but I think I will never again be saucing a small single serving of pasta in a skillet ever again. Who knows though, life always has surprises.

@mdkooter Жыл бұрын

Nutritionist here : Suggesting olive oil is in any way, shape or form 'not healthy' (as is done repeatedly in the video) is not just outdated, but plain wrong. Olive oil by itself has zero negative contribuition to human health, even if added in insane amounts. Why? You can't really absorb a lot of the calories in olive oil, it will act as a laxative. Secondly, in smaller (tastier!) amounts olive oil - or for that matter any oil - will reduce the glycmic load of carbs. The carbs in the pasta make people fat, cause bad cholesterol to rise and in general have pretty much exclusively negative effects on human health (or are neutral). Adding fats to carbs means despite the total meal calories going up, the total negative effect on human health is reduced. Fats slow down the spiking insuline that carbs cause, which in turn means that the calories are absorbed slower and hence don't cause the cascade of downsides of high insuline (insuline resitance, fat depositing in the belly area etc). Olive oil can be added to the point it negatively effects flavors, simple. Forget about the calories it contains, and focus only on flavors and textures it adds. The antioxidants and healthy fats olive oil contribute to the meal are a nutritional boon that your body will thank you for. Not only do we have ample research showcasing the healthy nature of olive oil vs most other fats, but the entire mediterreanean diet is based around olive oil. And for good reason! :)

@ski-yq9ur Жыл бұрын

#4 I was amazed when I tried the store brand Imported bronze cut pasta. It was very affordable, held the sauce better, tastes better and both my local Safeway and Kroger offer it. Worth a bit extra.

@riverrock335 Жыл бұрын

I love your clear countertops that allow room for cooking. Great video and I appreciate your efforts.

@laviniaaghakhani2086 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tips! Appreciate your videos.

@ajaxtelamonian5134 Жыл бұрын

I try to avoid ordering pasta at restaurants because they often serve thimbles (unreasonably tiny portions) of it.

@dmarsub Жыл бұрын

Awesome format, love the systematic approach. Ty!

@The0neWomanShow Жыл бұрын

You’re breakdown videos like these and the tomatoes and spice videos are half the reason I’ve become a better cook. I truly can’t thank you enough!!! You excel at the scientific approach to cooking that has helped me understand how to better my cooking (and it’s not even that hard, it’s logical that when I put it into practice it’s like ‘of course!!!’). You’re the best Ethan 🤩

@HS-vs2rf Жыл бұрын

This video is a masterpiece. Thanks!

@angelabender8132 Жыл бұрын

You can determine the quality of a pasta dish, from smelling the sauce and from looking at the cooked pasta: spaghetti ought to jump when you roll them in the fork, not lay flat overlooked in a sad state😮 So I never had pasta in USA

@Appaddict01 Жыл бұрын

Add cheese for garlic and oil if it’s watery.

@maartenbaas2308 Жыл бұрын

thanks for making and sharing. really nice how you explain how to balance the amout of salt in the water comparted to the saus and garnish. Very inspiring.

@ryanmalone4196 Жыл бұрын

It's hard to not get excited every time Ethan puts out a new video, always guaranteeing to learn something that will change the way I cook. I personally would love to see a video breaking down how to cook high quality meals for large groups of people. Not sacrificing Quality for Quantity.

@NE-BO Жыл бұрын

This video is very focused on European style pasta, does anything change when looking at Asian styles? (outside of potato starch as a thickener, is there anything else different?)

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Ok, I don't subscribe a lot, but the level of detail and what I believe is candid facts from you have converted me. The production quality is good, but that won't get me subscribing. It's always the quality of the content, and you ace that. Good job, Ethan. Never settle for less.

@chrisk.4435 Жыл бұрын

I love how you explain all of this! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

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@Toni_560 Жыл бұрын

Did you just butcher the carbonara with a blender???

@BagOfTacosForAll Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love the mention of Marc Vetri in this video. That man LOVES pasta and can create beautiful dishes and recipes. I've met him in person and I cant want to finally go to his restaurant when it reopens.

@nickrusso86 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video! I love the in-depth explanations. This is a very unique perspective on making great pasta dishes that will probably change my life for the better. Now I can't wait to make pasta again!