Okay, hear me out. I was boiling pasta last night, and I realized I didn’t have enough water in the pot. Instead of adding more water from the dispenser, I thought, “What if I use sparkling water?” So I poured it in, and something crazy happened: the bubbles seemed to agitate the pasta and cook it in half the time! The texture was perfect, and it even absorbed the flavor better.
I Googled this after and couldn’t find anything about using carbonated water to cook pasta. Did I just accidentally stumble upon a new cooking hack? Has anyone tried this before?
EDIT: ok guys, hear me out (no hate 😉). Thanks for your contributions and some people’s honest interest in boiling sparkling water. As you may have figured out by now, yesterday was April 1st and this was just a lame joke. Unless you are living your life like there is no tomorrow and have 50000BTC in your account, don’t use sparkling water to boil pasta. It’s just expensive tap water.
Enjoy your day.
Pro tip: don’t boil it in oil either, that would be frying it.