Utensils/Equipment Used for Alfredo

The Things You Need

The equipment and other utensils I used to make this Alfredo are not set-in-stone, but I recommend using them. The most important thing I think you should use is a flat pan for the sauce itself. This Alfredo sauce needs to be cooked all the way through in order for it to become thicker and more sauce-like rather than a watery liquid. A flat pan allows for the same amount of heavy whipping cream you would put in a pot, but, because of how thin in height the heavy whipping cream is in the pan, heat can easily reach all of the heavy whipping cream. In a pot, only the edges of the heavy whipping cream would receive heat, and, to fully cook it, would take much more time to have heat reach the middle. Below is a good example of a pan I would use to cook the sauce in.

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The second most important utensil I think you should use is a spatula for stirring the Alfredo sauce. The flat edge really helps to be able to stir the bottom of the pan. Doing this will help to not only prevent the sauce from sticking to the bottom but also prevent curdling the bottom of the sauce. No one wants curdled chunks in their sauce. A spatula also helps for the method of checking the thickness of your sauce. You need something flat in order to drag it along the bottom of the pan to separate the sauce, then to see how quickly it comes back together. Below is another good example of a spatula that I would use for Alfredo.


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Some other things to consider when making Alfredo is making sure to have a big pot and a little bowl for your noodles and spices. A pot roughly about the size shown on the right picture is what I would use for cooking your noodles in. Just fill the pot with water up to a little over half way, allow it to come to a boil, then cook the type of noodles you want for either as long as the package says or, if you are using your own noodles, taste one of them after they have cooked for about 10 minutes. For your spice bowl, any type of bowl will work, but I try to use the smallest one I have (which I do not really have considering I am newly living in my house) because that helps for me to gauge how much of each spice I am using. A bowl roughly the size of the picture below is what I would use, but again any size bowl works. 





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