And also, this is the way it's designed to be used for pasta. If you put items in the bowl part you should be rinsing vegetables or something. You should also be pouring your pasta water into something to save it for soup stock. Lots of starch in that water.
So, you do in fact add cold noodles to a warmed sauce? You should just boil noodles and put them in a bag in the fridge and take them out as you need them. Noodles should come out of hot water and then be placed on a plate and covered by warm sauce.
Do you have a secret time machine or something.
It doesn't take that long to heat up the sauce, the noodles aren't cold by then