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| Have you considered just adding an ounce less water to your sauces? If not Shugart's solution sounds effective albeit a little time consuming.
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| quote: Originally posted by zingo:
Food dehydrator
For the win!!! I'm chuckling picturing someone boiling water, adding dried pasta, cooking the dried pasta, then putting cooked pasta into food dehydrator, and ending up with dried pasta again.
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| quote: Originally posted by mark60:
I just shake it around in a colander.
^^^ This.
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| quote: Originally posted by mr kablammo:
The pasta dishes with ziti, rigatoni, elbows, and other 'tube noodles' were cooked as directed in the recipes but the sauces would be soupy or runny on the plate when served. It finally occurred to me that the interior of the noodles was holding water even after draining and vigorous shaking in the collander (hydrogen bonding, entropy, and such). So I bought a second collander, a clamp, and an electric air compressor. Now when I drain the pasta I trap the noodles in the two collanders and blow compressed air in through a slit. The pressure differential ensures that the water in the interior of the noodles is blown out. Sauce is perfect everytime.
It's starch water, so it really shouldn't be thinning sauce out too much. People often put that starch water INTO sauces to thicken it up.
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| If you're "rinsing" your cooked pasta after you strain it in a colander before saucing, you're committing a YUUUUUGE faux pas in the eyes of your resident Italians. 
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| To echo what @Hawkins wrote, when straining your pasta, keep some of the water you cooked it in, and add it to your sauce. This can help keep it a little thicker (helps the water and oil from separating).
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| quote: Patch on a cleaning rod
I take back what i said. This is the correct answer.
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| quote: Originally posted by Hawkins: quote: Patch on a cleaning rod
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| Why the feeling that you need to get rid of the water? My Italian wife says you're supposed to keep a little of the water with the pasta - it adds to the flavor.
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| Wait a minute...you can slay Agapanthus but you can’t get the water out of your pasta?
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| quote: Originally posted by MikeNH:
Can you post a photo of this contraption?
Alas, no photo is available. The OP was indeed an April 1st funny. Thank you everyone for your responses both humorous and serious. I hope that this has provided us all with an education and comic relief. Q-tips, pipe cleaners, cleaning rods, hair dryers, dehydrators, and Damp Rid will remain for special consideration if the need arises. I wish you all, SF, a great year and a touch of amnesia.
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