To be annoyed with the supermarket?

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One of their own brands of pasta has gone from a cooking time of 5 mins to 11 mins with no warning. Same shape, same packaging and I didn't notice so had hideously undercooked pasta.

The bastards!

Well you can't really be annoyed with a supermarket because you didn't read a label, can you?

Don't you taste it before you dish it up?

You don't need to taste it, if it's only had half the cooking time it should get. Just look at it and you can tell!

I've been buying this one for YEARS - it was my default pasta choice. It suddenly just changed.

IABU - I know. I taste it when it's for the DCs but (luckily) the first time it was just for me and I didn't bother tasting because I thought I knew.

Eleven minutes? What sort of pasta needs that amount of time? It must taste like glurpy cardboard after that sort of treatment.

11 minutes is the norm for pasta unless you've been buying quick cook and that's tasteless.
If you want it quicker noodles are better.

Did the label say new recipie? I would be annoyed about it and then put it on another six minutes, then not give another thought.

surely you would be able to notice that it was undercooked as you drained it and then cook it some more until it was ready..

cant say I have ever needed to read a label on pasta boiling, it is one of those things that you test and know when it is ready without needing a timer..