Why pasta is better in a steel pan — Transcript

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1. 0:00You're cooking pasta wrong. I'm going to
2. 0:01show you why. Fresh pasta sauce is
3. 0:03better in a stainless steel pan. It's
4. 0:04tomato season, so I'm going to do my
5. 0:06mom's famous fresh tomato sauce. It's
6. 0:08going to blow your mind. And Mama
7. 0:09Stella's going to help me with this.
8. 0:10What's next, Mom?
9. 0:11>> Okay, so now you're going to throw the
10. 0:12onions in?
11. 0:13>> Okay, so some onions right in directly.
12. 0:15Not too much.
13. 0:16>> Okay, so we're going to put the garlic,
14. 0:17nice fresh garlic from the garden.
15. 0:19>> Wait till you see the secret unique
16. 0:21pasta you've never seen before that
17. 0:22we're going to use to make this at the
18. 0:23end. It's why when you go to Italy you
19. 0:25never ever sort stomach after you pasta.
20. 0:27Wait till you see. Next step, some salt.
21. 0:32And next, no black pepper, but we're
22. 0:34going to use chili pepper.
23. 0:35Now you're just going to gently squish
24. 0:37these tomatoes down. If you push too
25. 0:39hard it'll squirt in your face, so
26. 0:41you're just pressing it lightly like
27. 0:42this to release the juices and deglaze
28. 0:44that onion fond. And as this is reducing
29. 0:46down it released a lot of liquid. We're
30. 0:48not going to remove the tomato skins.
31. 0:50There's a big myth out there that you
32. 0:51can't have tomato sauce with tomato
33. 0:53skins. This is the way any Italian nonna
34. 0:54I know does it and this is the way we're
35. 0:56going to do it. This is the first pasta
36. 0:57I've ever seen in North America to meet
37. 0:59all my criteria. Normally you only get
38. 1:01that in Italy. So I'm going to have my
39. 1:02family taste test it tonight. We're
40. 1:04going to put it to the test. Right
41. 1:05before the pasta is done we're going to
42. 1:06put a handful of fresh basil from the
43. 1:08garden.
44. 1:09Give it a little stir and remember to
45. 1:10scrape up that side tomato fond. It's a
46. 1:12difference that makes a difference.
47. 1:14Especially with these kind of sauces you
48. 1:15want the starchy pasta water with a
49. 1:17stainless steel ladle.
50. 1:19You just want to pour a ladleful in
51. 1:20there like this.
52. 1:22I'm going to do two here.
53. 1:26Then you're going to take your pasta
54. 1:27from the stainless steel pot and drag it
55. 1:29over in here.
56. 1:32Just drag it right over like that. Pasta
57. 1:34water and all.
58. 1:37Now you're going to let it cook with
59. 1:38that leftover pasta water until it's
60. 1:40fully cooked. So when I would grow up
61. 1:42watching Mama Stella do this, how long
62. 1:44did you typically cook this for in here?
63. 1:45>> Um you know, just till the water
64. 1:47absorbs.
65. 1:48>> And as you can see that pasta water
66. 1:49makes it nice and creamy when it
67. 1:50emulsifies with the oil. This is the
68. 1:52secret to Italian cooking. Technique and
69. 1:54quality ingredients. Always at the end
70. 1:56top it with the highest quality olive
71. 1:57oil you can have. This is my favorite.
72. 1:59>> And it's mine, too.
73. 2:00>> And there's no other cooking service
74. 2:01that can do this properly. It has to be
75. 2:02stainless steel cuz it's the only
76. 2:04service that truly works with acidity.
77. 2:06Tomatoes are acidic.
78. 2:08So, it always won't come out properly
79. 2:09unless you make this on a top-tier
80. 2:11stainless steel pan, like the one I'm
81. 2:13using here. You can get it at the top of
82. 2:14my page. Before we put the last
83. 2:15ingredient in, which is going to bring
84. 2:17it all together, let's go do the taste
85. 2:18test. So, we're going to put it to the
86. 2:19We're going to put this pasta to the
87. 2:21test, Mama Steel's amazing recipe, to
88. 2:23see what she thinks.
89. 2:26It actually tastes just like from Italy.
90. 2:27>> This pasta This new pasta is
91. 2:30really, really good.
92. 2:32>> Wow.
93. 2:33>> after this pasta.
94. 2:34>> Steel starts.
95. 2:39I love it.
96. 2:40>> Very good.
97. 2:41>> That's what it tastes like in Italy.
98. 2:43>> Yeah. It tastes
99. 2:44>> Like I don't mind it.
100. 2:45>> It's
101. 2:46creamy.
102. 2:46>> usually I don't like it, but I don't
103. 2:48mind it.
104. 2:48>> Yeah, you don't Usually you don't like
105. 2:49pasta.
106. 2:50>> Yeah, it's like a cream. It goes smooth.
107. 2:53>> Here's the bag. I hope they reach out to
108. 2:54me.