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Pasta
Because it should cook in lots of water.
Denver is higher in altitude and the water takes longer to heat.
At my family we love pasta normally the sauce takes longer to cook it all depends on what temperature you cook it at, how big your stove is and how much water you put in to boil the pasta.
Anyone can cook pasta. This can be anyone whether a chef or a bad cook.
1. Bring salted water to a boil 2. Put pasta in water 3. Boil until cooked You can even skip the salt. Thicker pasta takes longer to cook than thinner spaghetti. It is ready to eat when it feels right for you to eat.
You can cook the pasta earlier in the day, or the day before, then refrigerate it. You can then use it in a pasta salad or refry it.
The boiling point of any liquid is dependent upon the pressure of the atmosphere above the liquid therefore water boils at a lower temperature at higher altitudes. Because of this, the pasta takes longer to cook in the cooler boiling water.
Pasta needs to cook in rapidly boiling water, so a double boiler won't work that well for cooking pasta.
The only way you can cook raw pasta in a oven is by layering the pasta with a sauce, like a meat sauce or white sauce.
Common understanding of the pressure changing effects on the boiling point of liquids is expansion due to vaporization. The absolute effect of the boiling point of liquid is that during the pressure being applied the boiling temperature increases.
Fresh homemade pasta cooks the fastest as it does not need to be re-hydrated as part of the cooking process. As for dry pasta, the thinner and lighter the pasta the faster it will cook. Typically a thin egg noodle or a thin spaghetti will cook faster than a thick tube shape. Also whole wheat flour pastas tend to take longer than traditional flour. Traditional flour is already broken down in processing, the whole grain in whole wheat takes longer to be penetrated by the water. There are many different kinds of pasta made from many different ingredients, but it's pretty simple to figure out that the thinner the pasta, the faster the water will penetrate and soak through to cook it.