Fasta Pasta Microwave Pasta Cooker - The Original No Mess, Sticking or Waiting For Boil

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This 5 in 1 microwave pasta cooker is sturdy and well made. The lids are tight fitting and the cool-touch handles can be held right out of the microwave. Cook, steam or boil in the microwave using this multipurpose kitchen gadget. This cooker doesn’t come with a covering lid, though. Instead, there’s an additional plastic colander with two handles on each side that you can fit right into the container. When your pasta is ready, you can easily remove the colander from the pot as soon as your noodles are ready and strain the water. Capacity and size are the most important factor when you consider purchasing a microwave pasta cooker. The main difference being family size or regular, but most pasta cookers are designed to accommodate long noodles like spaghetti.

It's made with great quality and works with all pasta shapes. Great way to save time and energy next time you are serving pasta for dinner! Plastic vessels are the ones you’ll encounter the most when it comes to cooking pasta in the microwave. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that this is the only way to go; there are plenty of microwave materials you can work with, including glass, silicon, and ceramic.

It’s a quiet machine, but that might be a downside for some as there is no beep to signal when it’s finished. As there’s no timer, either, there’s no indication of how long it will be till your rice is ready. Add to that the fact that different types of pasta have different shapes . So, a cooker that contains penne might not be suitable for fettuccine or spaghetti. Also, it’s one thing to boil pasta in the microwave and a totally different thing to warm up Negresco or lasagna in one. From reheating cold soup to steaming a bunch of broccoli, microwave appliances exponentially speed up many kitchen related cooking tasks. However, now you can add pasta cooker to the microwave abilities.

Lastly, as one would expect, the Pasta N More Microwave Cooker is 100% BPA-free and holds absolutely no threat to your health whatsoever. You can even use it to store food in the fridge without worrying about any interactions or hazards. How To Choose A Microwave Pasta Cooker The dimensions of the container are 11.5 x 5.63 x 3.5 inches, so it’s wide enough to cook spaghetti, fettuccini, lasagna, as well as smaller pasta like rotini, penne, and Torchio. Tired of trying to force your fancy fettuccine into a too-small pot (or worse, breaking the noodles in half to fit)? What about having to awkwardly hold a colander while pouring a heavy pot of macaroni through it with the other hand or losing slippery strands of pasta down the drain? Well, it might be time to consider purchasing a dedicated pasta pot. Not only are they sized to fit long strands of pasta and plenty of cooking water, but many are also designed to make straining easier. Use less energy, less water and less time. Let’s cover the basic design elements and functional elements of the different microwavable pasta cookers available.

You are not only limited to making pasta from raw when using a pasta cooker in the microwave. In addition, it can be used for vegetables, soup, casserole and even rice.

We set this to work pretty much immediately out of the box and it cooked our rice to perfection, keeping it piping hot for more than an hour afterwards. This has a timer once there are 10 minutes to go, which counts down. Once it switches to keep-warm, the timer counts up, so you can see how long it is since the cooking programme finished. This pasta cooker is BPA-free and made with sturdy dishwasher safe material. It has cool touch handles that remain cool to the touch even when pulled straight out of the microwave. Pots with strainer inserts are easy to use. Simply leave the insert in the pot and fill it with the necessary amount of water. Bring the water to a boil, then add your pasta. When your pasta cook time is up, lift the strainer insert out of the water, allowing as much water as possible to drain out, and finish your pasta in sauce.He likes to call himself a ‘tech freak’ and if you ask him anything about whatever tech-trend is on these days, he will likely go on for hours. The Prep Solutions Cooker impressed us the most due to its high functionality and its great value. The Original Fasta Pasta is also hard to compete with, being one of the most versatile pasta cookers on our list. Calculate one percent of salt for the total weight of the pasta," says Manco. "You should salt the pasta after it has started to boil and just before you are ready to add the pasta. If you salt too early, water will evaporate and make the water more salt-concentrated." Manco recommends using sea salt for perfectly seasoned pasta. Homestyle offers an excellent pasta cooker for microwaves that’s slightly cheaper than Fasta Pasta, although both look pretty similar. Regardless, there are few differences besides the price, like the dimensions and lid design. Also, this cooker comes with a separate pasta measurer.