Spaghetti Warming?

Question

I am fixing a lot os spaghetti for a potluck dinner on Sunday. I will have to cook two batches, and keep it warm before serving time.

What is the best way to keep the spaghetti? I don't want it to dry out or get limp and soggy. I'd prefer not to mix the sauce in, but would that be the best way to go?

Answer 1

If you mix everything together you can keep it warm in a crock pot. If you don't want to do that, You can reheat pasta by dropping it in boiling water for just a minute. It will reheat without cooking if you drop it in, stir and pull it back out. We do this all the time with left overs because my family prefers not mixing the sauce with the pasta.

Answer 2

Actually, mix the sauce in, the spaghetti will taste a lot better if it spends some time in the sauce. As for warming, you have several choices. First, of course, the microwave oven. If you barely undercook the spaghetti, you can give it a little time in the microwave to warm it up. The other method is to put the spaghetti pot in the oven inside another pan that has about an inch or so of water in it. Set the oven temperature to 250 degrees and give it a few minutes. The water that steams out from the outer pan will keep the spaghetti from drying out.

Answer 3

For spaghetti to travel well, you have two options...

(1) Cook ahead of time & chill in fridge. Reheat by dunking in boiling water at your destination, if that's an option. Drain & mix with sauce.

(2) Depending on size of batches of pasta, add "just enough" sauce to coat (usually not more than 1 cup for a regular sized box of dried noodles). That will keep the noodles from sticking together. When you get where you're going, and are ready to eat, mix sauce and pasta together for serving.

Whatever you do, do NOT coat noodles with oil... as your sauce will not stick to the pasta when you want it to!

Answer 4

Darlin, make the dish, per recipe or whatever and cool, and then do this: (if you dont, all the things these people have told you will result in some soggy stufff!!!!!!)

I would fix the dish, and then the next day, heat it in a roasting pan and cover with foil when to full heat , cover with foil and then top with lid, will stay plenty warm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Add some sauce if it is not "wet" enough.

Good luck, but this is not as big a challenge as you are anticipating!

Answer 5

You don't have to keep the spaghetti warm, just cook in advance and right before serving, put it in a strainer and run it under hot water until limp. It tastes just as good

Answer 6

When I'm reheating left-over spaghetti, I heat it in the oven until it's hot throughout but not long enough to cook it. I usually add the sauce to it, but you can do it without the sauce by adding a little water to prevent drying.

Answer 7

Keep it in the refrigerator and when you get ready to reheat it, put it in a strainer and run hot water over it. Keep the sauce separate and warm it in the oven at about 250 degrees. (assuming it's homemade, not canned)To keep it warm during the dinner, you can buy these servers with canned heat under them. Warm everything, mix it in one of these containers, open the heat and you'll be set!

Answer 8

cook the spaghetti as usual.
drain and toss with a bit of vegetable oil so it does not stick together.
put it in a sealable plastic bag.
(you do not need to keep it warm)
refrigerate.
in fact, you can cook it the day before.
when you want to serve it,
prepare a pot of hot (not boiling) water.
take out the cold spaghetti and place in the hot water for one minute, drain well and it will be good as new and ready to serve.

Answer 9

If it is cooked and ready you can try putting in the oven without turningon because the tempurature from the stove would sink down to it or keep it on the stove on really low temp. Hope it works!!!By the way make sure to check on every so often so it doest burn or get dry if it does set it to the side of the stove for a couple of minutes

P.S works for me everytime

Answer 10

keep a little water in the pot and refridgerate over night then the next day. drain that water and add fresh water and reboil just to heat up but not cook more for the noodles. ya dont mix the sauce with it never until u r just ready to eat it. this is if u want to keep it for left overs for the next day.