Public debate on how to cook pasta to save on surging energy costs is sparking outrage among Italian cooks and dividing the population.
A majority claims that cooking pasta without a burning flame is heresy, while a minority maintains that to save energy, once water is boiled, pasta can be cooked with the stove off. Professional chefs say that pasta will cook differently (i.e., badly) without continuous heating.
The cost of electricity in Italy is strictly related to the price of gas, as the country produces nearly
50% of its needed electricity with gas, according to energy group TERNA.
Those who use the controversial ‘flame-off’ approach could use up to 47% less gas than the conventional method, as estimated by Unione Italiana Food, a leading Italian food producers’ association. According to the organization, nine out of 10 Italians tend to keep the flame on when cooking pasta.
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