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I'm having some friends over tomorrow evening and I stupidly offered to cook. I was going for a pasta bake as it's a piece of piss to make... but I've hit a hurdle.

 

They'll be four of us eating, as well as a 4 year old. The jar of pasta bake I have serves 4. Knowing my friends they're gonna want to have large portions. I've tried to find the larger jars of pasta bake (to serve 6-8) but I've had no luck.

 

If I use 2 jars of the regular size, can I just double everything? The cooking time, pasta quantity etc?

 

I DON'T COOK!!  

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Use double the quantities.

Use a cooking dish which has double the area of the base of the one you would use for 4 so that the height of the pasta bake is the same as it would be for 4 in the smaller dish.

Same cooking time, not double. If you are using the same dish as for 4 you would need to cook for a bit longer but not double - can't give you a precise figure as to how much longer which is why using a larger dish is safer.

 

El Loro
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:

Taste it as you go along to see if its done. That's what the top chefs do, innit. 

But that means opening the oven door, pulling it out, burning myself, tasting it, dropping the fork into the pasta bake, retrieving the fork, burning myself, putting it back in the oven, and closing the oven door.

 

Talk about effort.

Rawky-Roo
Originally Posted by Rawky-Roo:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:

Taste it as you go along to see if its done. That's what the top chefs do, innit. 

But that means opening the oven door, pulling it out, burning myself, tasting it, dropping the fork into the pasta bake, retrieving the fork, burning myself, putting it back in the oven, and closing the oven door.

 

Talk about effort.

 Yeah, fair point.

FM
Originally Posted by Rawky-Roo:
Originally Posted by pirate1111:

order a pizza

No way, man. No way. They always cook a meal for me when I go over theirs. I need to step my game up.

 

Hopefully it turns out alright, otherwise they're getting crumpets.

pretend you made it & hide the boxes

 

anyway lots of pizza places do pasta dishes now

 

just add cheese

pirate1111

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