Non BBQ food Poll

[Baychilla]

I like tacos.

Crispy or soft?

 

[m-fine]

Noodles are for Asian dishes. Red sauce goes on veal parm, and it is ladled on at the end.

 

[Dweverett]

This isn't a debate. You have your sauce. Undercook your pasta, ladle some sauce in a pan with butter and reserved pasta water. Stir in pasta. Add more sauce. Cook a little more. Add more sauce. When it's almost a creamy consistency slide over to the plate.

Technically correct. Problem has always been that I was cooking for a family of 7 so the volume drove me to serve them separate.

 

[Robert]

Separate first then mixed for left overs. Strange I know, but just the way I like it.
And I prefer a meat sauce versus marinara.

 

[Jwm3]

My personal pref is them mixed. However I have a bunch of little ones who all like things different ways (one eats it mixed, one sauce on the side, one butter & garlic only) so it is separate at my house.

Me? Spag needs to have twice the garlic a human needs to consume daily (mmmmmm garlicccccc), plus hot peppers, plus green or kalamata olives in the sauce.

50/50 vote, wow. Interesting......

 

[pjtexas1]

Separate... we're not animals. Real Italians use very little sauce. Since I'm only half or part i pile on the sauce. They think I'm insane.

Edit: how else can you serve two different sauces if you mix it?
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[LordRiffenstein]

separate first then mixed for left overs. Strange i know, but just the way i like it.
And i prefer a meat sauce versus marinara.

this!

 

[16Adams]

My spaghetti urge 99% of time ends up being American Goulash

On the rare occasion we make spaghetti I like a layer of hamburger meat topped with pasta, then more burger and Parmesan , then a single small ladle of meat sauce topped with more parm.

It’s all mixed together only at the “leftovers” stage.

 

[Blizzard]

Isn’t it “gravy” in true Italian cuisine? But I serve separately UNLESS that is, I’m serving baked spaghetti. Which is roughly like lasagna but using spaghetti instead of lasagna noodles. I use egg and flour as a binder and serve a cut piece like lasagna. It’s pretty delicious.

 

[DanB]

I believe the "correct" way is to slightly undercook the pasta in the water and then finish cooking it in the sauce, ergo I guess I'm mixed.:wacko:

This Italian always puts the pasta in the gravy/sauce before serving.
DanB

 

[worktogthr]

Always pull your pasta a bit early and finish in the sauce. Only way the pasta get completely coated. Extra sauce on the side to ladle on is optional.

 

[Lomey]

Separate first then mixed for left overs. Strange I know, but just the way I like it.
And I prefer a meat sauce versus marinara.

This for me also.

 

[Ron_L]

Mixed, but not simmered since that would overcook the pasta.

 

[Beer/Meat/Victory]

On top. I only mix it up when serving children. Then again my sauce is one step away from being chili and I am far from being eye-talian so what do I know.

 

[Czarbecue]

I believe the "correct" way is to slightly undercook the pasta in the water and then finish cooking it in the sauce, ergo I guess I'm mixed.:wacko:

I've only experience the benefit with fresh pasta. The dry packaged stuff makes no difference when it is sauced. I mix the stuff for my kids and they will eat it for days.. but I prefer it with pasta on the bottom with everything else on top... My spaghetti sauce is basically a meat chili and I ladle it on, lol.

 

[enduro]

When I was a kid growing up, my dad had a very limited diet - basically meat and potato and little else. On the rare occasion that mom would make spaghetti, dad would only eat it if it had slab bacon cubed, fried, and added to a pot of tomato juice that spaghetti noodles were boiled in. We would dig the noodles and bacon out of the pot with a slotted spoon and add basic salt and pepper for seasoning. I didn't even realize what I was missing until I was an adult on my own, and have since learned the true joy of my wife's real sauce made with fresh tomatoes and other ingredients. That sauce is now ladled on top of the noodles, and mixed together on the plate. I do have the occasional yearning for the old spaghetti and bacon meal, but haven't made it for years.

 

[m-fine]

Separate... we're not animals.

???? Which animals are known to mix spaghetti in with their sauce?

When my wife tries to serve me spaghetti with sauce (separate), I put the sauce on the meatballs and sausage and serve the pasta to the dog. He has never once tried to mix it in sauce.

 

[Jrogers84]

This isn't a debate. You have your sauce. Undercook your pasta, ladle some sauce in a pan with butter and reserved pasta water. Stir in pasta. Add more sauce. Cook a little more. Add more sauce. When it's almost a creamy consistency slide over to the plate.

This guy nailed it. Anything else is crazy. I was told (im no expert) that the starch from the pasta mixes with the sauce.

On a side note COLD is the only way to eat leftover spaghetti

 

[dadsr4]

It depends on the sauce and who is making it. When I'm cooking, if it's a smooth sauce, mixed. If the sauce has meat and/or vegetable chunks on it, on top. If my wife is cooking, everything is mixed. At the table, both are very good.

 

[Czarbecue]

???? Which animals are known to mix spaghetti in with their sauce?

Looks mixed to me ound: