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Italian cooking looks simple — but the small rules make all the difference.
In this episode of Elisabetta Cooks, Elisabetta shares 10 old-school Italian cooking habits that generations of home cooks followed almost automatically: salting pasta water properly, saving starchy pasta water, never rinsing hot pasta, finishing pasta in the sauce, matching pasta shapes to the right sauce, patiently cooking soffritto, tasting as you go, keeping ingredients simple, and knowing when a sauce needs time.
These aren’t complicated chef tricks. They’re the little habits that can make simple Italian food taste completely different.
Which of these rules did your family always follow? Tell Elisabetta in the comments.
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Learning so much with this video! thank you!!