Washing Pasta
Don’t rinse your cooked pasta under cold water, it will reduce its flavor, especially if you added vegetable broth into the cooking water. If you go for this method and use vegetable broth, the pasta won’t get sticky, so you can just dispose of the cooking water without rinsing the pasta.

Washing Pasta
Salt On Potatoes
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to add salt to the water when boiling potatoes. The granulated starch from the potatoes swell up and absorb the water as well as the salt you’ve added. To season potatoes, you just need to season them at the end.

Salt On Potatoes