This is why you shouldn’t put olive oil in your boiling water when you cook pasta

HOW do you prepare pasta?

A big bowl of carb-laden pasta is a comfort dish to plenty of people, but it turns out many of us have been making one big mistake when it comes to prepping the meal.

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Chef Fabio Viviani told that being “lazy” led to pasta lovers being wasteful when it came to cooking it.

And it seems that adding olive oil to stop your pasta sticking to the pan is a big “no no” – with continuously stirring our pasta being the better option.

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Fabio said: “I think the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard about making pasta is people who waste olive oil in the water so the pasta doesn’t stick.

“That’s a lie, it’s wasteful… you should be there stirring your pasta – which doesn’t make it stick anyway.”

Oops.