Long pasta shapes like tagliatelle and spaghetti will sometimes stick together due to their starchiness. Gordon Ramsay was a big proponent of adding oil to your cooking water to help remedy this. But oil never fully mixes with water, so it'll only work for the bits of pasta floating at the top. It also means that any sauce will slide right off the pasta when you mix it in. Use the olive oil to finish off your dish instead.

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