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Old 07-11-2020, 10:03 AM
 
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I drain the pasta into a colander set high over a large bowl or pot, wait until the water has cooled, then use the nutrient-rich water to water my plants in the garden. Or mixed into to a dry compost heap.
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Old 07-11-2020, 12:02 PM
 
Location: Troy, Michigan
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This.

Water wont go down the drain?
STARCHY water. And to be more accurate, it usually goes down the drain but over a few hours, the sink becomes clogged and backed up.
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Old 07-11-2020, 12:05 PM
 
Location: Northern California
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That is really weird, are you sure you are not letting some pasta pieces slip through? My pasta water has never blocked any sink.
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Old 07-11-2020, 12:06 PM
 
Location: Northern California
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I drain the pasta into a colander set high over a large bowl or pot, wait until the water has cooled, then use the nutrient-rich water to water my plants in the garden. Or mixed into to a dry compost heap.

This sounds good, but I salt my pasta water. So I don't think the plants would like it. If I soak dry beans, though, they always get the water.
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Old 07-11-2020, 12:09 PM
 
Location: Troy, Michigan
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When was the last time you had your trap checked?
About a year ago. Sink is working fine as I've said, I work around the issue by boiling the noodles in with the sauce, which is fine, it thickens it. I was mainly posting to inquire if others had this issue when doing it the traditional way though as I have had.
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Old 07-11-2020, 12:57 PM
 
Location: A Yankee in northeast TN
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STARCHY water. And to be more accurate, it usually goes down the drain but over a few hours, the sink becomes clogged and backed up.
Unless your water is so starchy it's turning into glue when it sets up you shouldn't be having a problem with it clogging your sink. Try running the sink while you drain your pot, and don't dump the entire pot at once.
It does sound like you might have some blockage in your pipes. I was having trouble with the sink draining only whenever I let the sink full of dishwater drain, no other time, turns out when I took the pipes apart there was some sort of white glob that didn't entirely block the pipes, just caused slow draining with too much water at once. Removed that and now it drains just fine. (And mind you I had the sink fixed less than a year ago, so whatever that white glop was it built up fairly recently)
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Old 07-11-2020, 01:12 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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I drain the pasta into a colander set high over a large bowl or pot, wait until the water has cooled, then use the nutrient-rich water to water my plants in the garden. Or mixed into to a dry compost heap.
What nutrients? and wouldn't the salted water be damaging to the plants?
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Old 07-11-2020, 01:30 PM
 
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Pasta water, whether hot or cold, won’t clog a sink. If your sink is slow to drain pasta water, you have other issues.

Try this. Take the pot that you use to boil your pasta. Fill it full of water (no pasta) and then pour the water into your sink. Does it drain in a normal manner, slowly, or not all?

A partially clogged drain that drains “normally” with a smaller amount of water can be overwhelmed and drain slowly when a large volume of water is introduced.
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Old 07-11-2020, 01:38 PM
 
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What nutrients? and wouldn't the salted water be damaging to the plants?
I assume there are microbes or more complex organisms that will break the starch down into sugars as they digest it, and then release beneficial byproducts into the soil or compost heap.

I don’t add a lot of salt to my pasta water (a pinch) and have not noticed any detrimental effects to my garden. But I don’t eat pasta regularly to do this frequently enough for a build up of salt in the soil.

Also, I use different types of pastas, including those colored through the use of vegetable extracts, so assume there are more some micronutrients leaking into the water.
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Old 07-11-2020, 01:43 PM
 
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Must be me but my brain is spinning...olive oil, nutrient rich pasta water, water that clogs drains...


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