I cooked a nice simple pasta dish for dinner tonight. Bowtie pasta with a nice meat sauce. Seasoned myself, of course. Anyway, it got me thinking about something a lot of you might not know. But you should.
You see, I didn't cook the pasta first.
You've probably seen that there are two kinds of lasagna. Regular and oven-ready. The regular you are supposed to cook first. The oven-ready, you don't have to.
Have you ever wondered why?
Here's why: because consumers are stupid.
The pasta is exactly the same. Well, almost. The oven-ready pasta, which is the same price, is slightly thinner, and therefore a ripoff. The ingredients are the same. The product is the same.
You can put any pasta in the oven dry, and as long as it has the proper amount of sauce, it will cook. Doesn't matter if the box says oven-ready or not.
Something to remember.
You see, I didn't cook the pasta first.
You've probably seen that there are two kinds of lasagna. Regular and oven-ready. The regular you are supposed to cook first. The oven-ready, you don't have to.
Have you ever wondered why?
Here's why: because consumers are stupid.
The pasta is exactly the same. Well, almost. The oven-ready pasta, which is the same price, is slightly thinner, and therefore a ripoff. The ingredients are the same. The product is the same.
You can put any pasta in the oven dry, and as long as it has the proper amount of sauce, it will cook. Doesn't matter if the box says oven-ready or not.
Something to remember.