Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2018, America's Test Kitchen TV
Our fixes: Overcook the noodles. Raid the pantry. Puree the dressing.
For a better, more worthwhile pasta salad, we used corkscrew-shaped fusilli, which had plenty of surface area for capturing dressing. We cooked the pasta until it was a little too soft so that as it cooled and firmed up, it would have just ...