My friend, who is Italian and comes from an all Italian family, never rinses her pasta after draining it. I was always taught to lightly rinse drained pasta with cold water to stop it cooking. To both cool it down enough to eat and to rinse off anything that floated away (salt, preservatives, aka the "scum") when boiling. She was taught to never rinse off pasta after draining because it "washes away the flavor". (ಠ_ಠლ)
We asked her mother and aunt, and while my friends mother said she doesn't rinse, her aunt (the mothers sister) said she does rinse! Haha, my friends mother just looked at the aunt was like, "Wait you rinse your pasta? Why?!" Which brought up another argument/discussion of rinse vs no rinse but between those two.
So, when you're making pasta, do you rinse it or do you not rinse it?
We asked her mother and aunt, and while my friends mother said she doesn't rinse, her aunt (the mothers sister) said she does rinse! Haha, my friends mother just looked at the aunt was like, "Wait you rinse your pasta? Why?!" Which brought up another argument/discussion of rinse vs no rinse but between those two.
So, when you're making pasta, do you rinse it or do you not rinse it?