Can I use ocean water to cook pasta?

Question

I'd like to go to the ocean and get some ocean water to cook pasta with since it's pre-salted. Is this safe?

Answer 1

Yes all you have to do is boil it to kill the bacteria.

Answer 2

no just fart on it for heat

Answer 3

I'm sure none of us here have peed in the water

while at the beach.

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Answer 4

yes, but only if freshly shat on by the finest birds and fish, but then again im sure its all like that so yes, you should. adds flavour.

Answer 5

Personal opinion I think it would be a bit salty. And as it boils the salt will concentrate even more making it even saltier. 

While I hear a lot of people say to "salt the pasta water until it is like the sea" I do not salt it that much. Not to mention the sea water is not that clean, I sure would not use it (think of the people that pee in it, the boaters that dump sewage into it...and the people that use it as a garbage dump)

Answer 6

Actually, in the Med, the recipe for pasta is to salt the water so it is as salty as the Mediterranean Sea, so you're spot on. Living in Florida, I find it easier to add sea salt to tap water until that level of saltiness tastes right.

Answer 7

No its its not safe 

Answer 8

I wouldn't do it but I suppose in a emergency it could be done but make

sure you go out far enough to get clean water.

Answer 9

Actually I have, although it was a bottle of it given to me, rather than walking out into the ocean and filling one.

If going that way, I would go out to about waist deep, so not as to get any sand in it-or just strain it first. 

Answer 10

I mean, I wouldn’t. There’s a lot of wee and other icky stuff in the sea, but you do you