If the gnocchi fall apart or appear to be fraying at the edges, it can mean one of two things: You let them cook for too long or, even worse, you didn't combine the potato and flour into true dough. ... Last, and most important: Be prepared that your gnocchi may not come out perfect the first time.

How do you keep gnocchi from falling apart?

Cook frozen gnocchi in boiling water in two batches. Frozen gnocchi cause the temperature of the cooking water to drop, so they'll fall apart before the water returns to a boil if there are too many in the pot.

Why did homemade gnocchi turn into mush?

In the Italian cooking bible Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well, published in 1891, author Pellegrino Artusi tells of a woman whose gnocchi disappear in the pot she is boiling them in (she hadn't used enough flour to hold them together).