Pasta Express

Another Pasta Express, Please
I used my PE for at least 2 years. It did a fine job & I'm no pasta expert. However, I noticed about a year ago, what appeared to be cracks. The cracks increased in number. I finally had to discard it because of water leakage. I reread the instructions and see that you must pre-heat the PE with hot tap water before adding the boiling water. I never did that. So, the PE failure was my fault.

I then used the smaller PE, which I had on several other occasions. I put it in the dishwasher, but it came out deformed. I do not believe these units are DW safe.

There are many complaints re: PE, but I think most of them are due to not allowing enough time for the pasta to cook. You cannot take the PE time as gospel. You need 13 to 15 min. I allowed 20 min. & the spaghetti was fine. I suppose, to get a better sense of time, watch when the (spaghetti in this case) collapses. That may be the time to empty the PE. I usually waited 20 min. Again, I'm no pasta expert, but the...

Making pasta much easier now
I got this for Christmas and tried it out first time with whole wheat rotini pasta.
The pasta turned out fine. This is also supposed to cook vegetables, shrimp and different types of pasta. It cut down on my cooking time and I didn't have to deal with the steam from cooking and draining pasta the traditional way. It may not work for a large pasta meal, the amount of pasta it will cook will probably serve 2-4 people.
I recommend this product for convenience and reduced cooking time. Now I just have to worry about one pot on the stove for the pasta sauce.

Pasta Exprss DOES crack over time
Like David Werner's review, I use this often and NEVER preheated it (never read the directions!). After about 2 years, it cracked. I found it SO useful for spagetti and asparagus, that I just ordered another one.

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