TIFU by tasting pasta

TIFU by tasting pasta.

I was making dinner for my family and was using bowtie pasta. It doesn't cook as fast as other pasta we normally use but I prefer it.

My preferred way of testing the done-ness of pasta is to taste it. Be it spaghetti, ziti or bowtie, I always taste it. I know some people use the stick-to-the-wall method, some cut it with a knife or just feel it, but I prefer to taste so I know it's the texture I like.

I am standing in the kitchen and it is looking about done. I go to scoop one out and can tell by the way it feels on the spoon, it's not ready. I blow on it and taste it anyways and I was right. Not done.

A bit more time goes by and I test it again. Blow on it, chew it and now it's getting close, but not quite there.

Third time's the charm right? That's what I thought too.

I scoop one out, blow on the top and put it in my mouth. What I didn't know until the moment it hit my tongue was there was a small pocket of hot-had-just-been-boiling water under the bowtie. I tried to spit it out but it was too late. I burnt my tongue, badly. There's blisters on my lip, and I can't taste anything.

My tongue really hurts and feels like it's been scraped by sandpaper or something.

Let this be a lesson folks, if your gonna taste test the done-ness of your pasta, for the love of linguini, let it cool properly first.

Edit to add: I don't time my pasta, I tend to go more with look and feel unless I'm doing a baked dish

TLDR: did a taste test on the done-ness of my pasta and burnt the ever loving crap out of my tongue. Now I can't taste anything 😭