Pasta cooking with admixture of oil Oil would not necessarily stay at the top If the water is boiling and therefore agitated droplets of oil could be drawn down to the pasta and some might stick to it I recommend speedy deletion of this item Preceding unsigned comment added by I had a look at one of the sources for this statement and it actually reads You may have heard that you can avoid sticky pasta by adding oil to the pasta water This can prevent sticking but at a great price Pasta that s cooked in oily water will become oily itself and as a result the sauce slides off doesn t get absorbed and you have flavorless pasta My emphasis This is in direct contradiction to the statement that oil in the water does not prevent sticking I also feel based on my own experience that it is unlikely that the oil just stays on top during a vigorous boil I support removal Another monosodium glutamate myth It s a myth that it causes baldness in women who eat a lot of it The baldness is actually genetic the middle aged Chinese women go a bit thin on top and this is not uncommon among ethnic Chinese women in Malaysia about 50 years old the hair still being black Please read the Please read before proposing new entries box at the top of this page and provide sources that this myth fulfills the 4 criteria