Forget all that and just cook the pasta in the sauce!
Spaghetti al’assassina
There is more then one way to do something. Generally when someone tells you there is only one way to do something it’s because they are opinionated and stubborn. They are usually the first type of people I ignore.
I swear pasta water is magic. Once we started heating our pasta with the sauce with the pasta water everything changed. The pasta water itself can turn store bought into amazing
Funny. This is pretty close to how I serve pasta. Cook the noodles, drain, heat the sauce in the noodle pan, add the noodles, mix and serve. Except I do it to only use one pan rather than any sense of correctness. I always assumed I was doing it “wrong”.
In my view, this is why spaghetti leftovers are often superior to first day… The sauce has been marinating the noodles over night