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It makes the pasta salty. It's not just pasta - almost any dish will be better if you salt/season as you go instead of adding it on top at the end

• leephillips 4y ago
  Also the water will boil at a higher temperature. I wonder if this affects the texture of the pasta. I suppose it will cook somewhat faster.
  • halkony 4y ago
    In college I got into an argument about this, believing this was the primary reason to salt the water. I was wrong -- at best it raises the boiling temp by 2F which is negligible.
    • leephillips 4y ago
      Yeah, I used to think that too, but later I suspected it was actually as you say.