Some great tips to experiment with.
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Don't make this mistake again with fresh pasta! Look at it!
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Of the many things I love about pasta convenience is at the top of the list. It’s without a doubt the dish I make most often when I’m short on time or haven’t been to the store in a while. I always have a few packages of dried spaghetti or rigatoni on hand and even a fancy pasta recipe can be made in under half an hour. And unlike the questionably fresh block of tofu lurking in the back of my fridge dried pasta doesn’t go bad… or does it?
After a Spruce Eats editor experienced a case of pasta-eating pantry beetles I panicked about the shelf life of my own pantry. Was it safe from insects and other such creatures? And what about that open box of lumache I bought eight months ago? Would it ever go bad? What if it was already perishable?!
