So, if you can cold-brew coffee, I wonder if you can cold-brew Pasta?

Alexandra :prami:

@andycarolan Yeah, mine kinda went by the roadside a long time ago.

Sumocat 🐈‍⬛

@andycarolan You can cold brew anything. I don’t know why you’d want to drink cold pasta water though.

Tom Streeter

@andycarolan My pleasure. I worried in my explanation that I implied that somehow ‘extraction’ is in some way inferior to ‘cooking’ when, in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. It can be wildly complex. For example, cold brewing espresso will likely never work well because the fine grind lets the water easily extract flavor compounds that no one wants to taste, whereas a coarser grind makes the job tougher because the larger granules means more surface area to soak into.

Andy Carolan :prami:

@Sumocat ROFL, fair point!

Andy Carolan :prami:

@alexandra LMAO!

Andy Carolan :prami:

@tom_streeter I can only imagine there's an ideal grind 'size' for cold-brew. I generally only grind for espresso. Anything else, and I buy pre-ground. It's not often that I do that though.

David Johnson :prami_pride:

@andycarolan I pulled a face as I read that

David Johnson :prami_pride:

@andycarolan A night’s sleep?!

@alexandra

Andy Carolan :prami:

@ctt LMAO, so did I... and I was the one who wrote it

Andy Carolan :prami:

@ctt LMAO! @alexandra

David Johnson :prami_pride:

@andycarolan