As the water heats up, the pasta will cook — and once it's boiling, you can reduce the heat to let the pasta simmer for ...

and when it detects the water is boiling, the gadget alerts your phone (at least for this version of the device, an Android or iOS application is required) that it’s time to put in the pasta.

Even though I almost lost my phone to a pot of boiling water, the pasta was worth the drama. Testing recipes has come with few perils in my five years as a food writer. There was the time I got a ...