WHETHER you prefer your spaghetti al dente or soothingly soft, it can be difficult to achieve perfection at home. Many of us will have experienced our pasta disintegrating into a beige mush — ...

Defined as two or three minutes less cook time than the package instructions, “firm” pasta sits at the very beginning of the ...

It’s not the best method, but it gets the job done. You can cook pasta in the microwave—just cover it with plenty of water, stir occasionally, and cook for the box’s recommended time plus an extra ...

If it's not tough and chewy, it's reduced to an unpalatable mush—there's certainly a fine art in cooking pasta perfectly al dente. And thanks to scientists and a surprising use of a particle ...