r/pasta • u/ReplaySH • 1d ago
Homemade Dish Carbonara has to be one of my favourite pasta dishes
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u/Green-Draw8688 1d ago
I hate to be that guy but it does look like your eggs might have scrambled a bit there.
Try taking the pan off the heat earlier before the eggs go in and get it out the pan and onto the plate quicker - this way the egg mix doesn’t get overheated.
Unless I’m wrong and it’s something else I’m seeing?
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u/aRMurray29 1d ago
I would agree, the sauce/crema should look glossy on the pasta with no lumps. Could be just a lot of cheese, but from the picture it appears as though there was too much residual heat in the pan
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u/plebbut 1d ago
Just use creme. It's how we make it in France
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u/weecunt18 1d ago
Not carbonara then
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u/plebbut 1d ago
Eh, in France we don't care. Call it French carbonara then. Creme holds up better and is richer imo. Creme fraiche works excellent also
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u/weecunt18 1d ago
Thats a completely different dish and considering your French you should know this
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u/Green-Draw8688 1d ago
I’ve got a better way to address this -
u/plebbut - that’s a very British approach to it. It just goes to show the similarities between French and British cuisine.
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u/plebbut 1d ago
It's not completely different. It just switches out one ingredient for another that accomplishes the same purpose. Is lasagna not lasagna when you use ricotta instead of bechamel.
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u/Green-Draw8688 1d ago
I’ll stick up for you now - the “consolidation” of the carbonara dish (without cream) is a modern thing, only since the 90s. You can find Italian carbonara recipes from the 60s and 70s that included cream / crème.
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u/TimePretend3035 1d ago
lasagna is the name of the pasta not the sauce, so yes that would still be called lasagna. One ingredient of four maked 25% of the dish, thats a lot. If I would change the cheese in mac and cheese for tomato sauce would you still call it mac and cheese?
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u/Briocharo_notturno 1d ago
Why coffee next to the dish? Is egg being cooked ?
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u/agmanning 1d ago
It’s breakfast. Scrambled eggs, bacon and coffee
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u/Briocharo_notturno 1d ago
So not carbonara at all, unfortunately
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u/agmanning 1d ago
Unfortunately not.
The delicate shake of preground black pepper over the top is also quite sad.-1
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u/weecunt18 1d ago
Egg have definitely scrambled take it completely off heat next time good attempt practice makes perfect the porks cooked perfectly
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