How many times has this happened to you: You grab pasta out of the cupboard. Look at the package. Cooking time is 11 minutes. Perfect, I can wait that long. But wait… I have to boil the dang water.

A single tweet has ignited a vigorous debate—and we put it to the test. Common wisdom in pasta cookery has held that the (well-salted) water must be brought to a vigorous, rolling boil before you even ...

Is cooking pasta in cold water something you should actually do? Last year, a viral tweet ignited a debate among pasta lovers all over the world. Conventional wisdom has always been that you boil the ...