Nobel-winner Parisi suggests cooking pasta with heat off

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 5 - Nobel Prize-winning physicist Giorgio Parisi has sparked a debate in Italy by suggesting the people could cook pasta with the heat off in order to save energy and money amid the cost-of-living crisis.
    In a Facebook post, Parisi suggested turning the heat off once the water is brought to the boil and the pasta is in the pot, then leave it for necessary time to cook with the lid firmly on.
    While many pasta-lovers expressed scepticism on social media, top chemist Dario Bressanini says the system works.
    "It's not a new thing," Bressanini, whose videos on this subject have been seen by over a million people, told ANSA.
    "We've know for 200 years that it is not the boiling of the water, seeing it bubble, that does the cooking but the temperature of the water, which transfers heat to pasta, rice or an egg.
    "Many people are astounded because traditionally we are used to keeping the pasta boiling and not even using the lid". (ANSA).