Someone please tell me the secret!

Lets see: Boil water with salt (it makes water boil at a higher temperature). Use a lot of water. Add the pasta and stir gently with a wooden spoon to separate them. Watch them closely, when the water starts rising again due to boiling, take one of the noodles (without burning yourself) and try it, it should be soft but shouldn't taste like flour. Once you've find the perfect noodle, take them out and add oil or butter to the bowl. Agitate the bowl to mix them, make them jump. Done.

Oil seems to work for me. If they are homemade though they will stick easier so I toss them in a bit of oil before I boil them.

fettuccine noodles need more room to cook than does spaghetti or other pasta. So an other thing is to have a really big pot of boiling water and continuous stirring until they are not sticking any more. The oil in the water doesn't help with the noodles sticking together.. The oil is to stop the pasta from boiling over.

You could try using butter.. thats' what i use instead of the oil, but you have to be REALLY diligent to stir those noodles a lot.. that's what i find anyways. . i hate it when the noodles stick together!!happens to me with angelhair if i dont stir stir stir.

Hi, have you tried rinsing out the noodles after cooking. Put them in the hotwater and stir well . You'll have to add a little oil then or after ypou rinse it in the cold water. I'll give you a link where you can see the way to cook these noodles. http://www.ehow.com/how_2215914_strain-fettuccine-noodles-alfredo.html http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Ranch-a-Doodle-Fettuccine-Noodles/Detail.aspx http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,fettuccine_noodle,FF.html All the best

I don't ever add oil to the water because it seems like when I do the 'sauce' just slips right off the noodles. What I do: bring LOTS of water to a rolling boil before adding the noodles. I don't add them all at once. just a little at a time stirring with each addition. The key is to make sure you use a big pan with lots of water. If you load the pan with too many noodles, they don't have room to expand and the water doesn't get all around them to prevent them from sticking together. Also, I stir them pretty often once they are all in the pan as also a little preventative maintenance. Hope I was of some help to ya! Good luck and Happy Cooking!

The oil doesn't help at all with sticking. Sounds like you need a rolling boil and a larger pot. You pasta sticks because it doesn't have enough room in the pot.

Well, I always watch those cooking channels on TV. You need to cook with a chef pan, they are a big plan to use for boiling (it must hold at least a few gallons of water), and the secret (as someone already said) is to use salt in the water. It works with any pasta...by using lots of water and some salt in the water you avoid having the pasta stick. Pablo

after your water is boiling rapidly put several noodles in (that can fit in your pan without overlapping) and as they soften add some more (stir) when they soften, some more....(stir) etc. oil does not really prevent sticking, but the stirring when you add the oil does - so just remember to stir your noodles between additions and when all finished putting them in. when they are done cooking and you strain them run some cold water over them, this will prevent over cooking as well as rinse off some of the starch that likes to clump together. Fettuccine seems to take a little longer to finish cooking, too.

Add the noodles a few at a time instead of all at once and stir them moving them around in the pan until water returns to boil. This should help prevent from sticking. I never add oil to the water, I think it makes the noodles greasy.

I agree with Tess1960. After I add the noodles, I stand there and stir and then when I let it boil for a bit, I come back and stir again. Just keep on top of the stirring and they won't stick. Adding the oil into the water doesn't make sense because water and oil repel and the oil remains at the top.