Making your own ramen noodles, anyone tried it? I've been watching all these animes and hearing about miso ramen, and I love me some miso and have never tried real ramen. I've come across some recipes and they all call for Kansui, which I guess is just sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate in a liquid form, so backing soda and baking powder right? When making my noodle dough can I just substitute a certain ratio of baking soda and powder for the tablespoon or so of kansui it calls for in the water I'm using for the dough?
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Re: Ramen Noodles [Re: Sulfurshelfsean]
#17621609 - 01/28/13 01:26 AM (7 days, 21 hours ago)
Try google, you'll find oodles and noodles of information about it.. But I don't personally know.. I think it's great that you want to make your own! :thumbup:
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#17621643 - 01/28/13 01:36 AM (7 days, 21 hours ago)
Yeah i found a couple without the stuff in it, but they seem less traditional i just cant find baking soda in my house or kansui in any stores ive checked so far
might have to go with the less traditional for now. after i get the noodles down, im gonna start gettiing ingredients together for miso ramen which looks sooooooo so goddamn good, hope ill be able to find bamboo shoots around here xD
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Re: Ramen Noodles [Re: Sulfurshelfsean]
#17621666 - 01/28/13 01:43 AM (7 days, 21 hours ago)
Well , once you find some bamboo, you won't have trouble finding more... it's asooo invasive...
Also, is that a chicken of the woods in your avatar? NICE! One of the fattest clusters I've ever seen.
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#17621790 - 01/28/13 02:16 AM (7 days, 21 hours ago)
Yes indeed it is, thanks it was almost forty lbs! and yeah theres bamboo that grows wild around here i just gotta get my waders and its cold as a mo out. I wonder if north american bamboo is as tasty as the japanese stuff?
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Re: Ramen Noodles [Re: Sulfurshelfsean]
#17622141 - 01/28/13 04:50 AM (7 days, 18 hours ago)
the only kind of ramen I eat
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#17622149 - 01/28/13 04:54 AM (7 days, 18 hours ago)
This was the end result of my noodle experiment. cooked in two minutes tender but not mushy at all i still have enough dough for another serving gonna try and make em thinner. didnt have an broth so i used italian style butter garlic onion powder pepper tasted really good, defintely want to try it in a miso ramenbut i want to get them thinner next time. that looks delicious did you prepare it yourself?
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Re: Ramen Noodles [Re: Sulfurshelfsean]
#17622156 - 01/28/13 04:58 AM (7 days, 18 hours ago)
hell no, that's from a japanese hakata style ramen place near my house.
although my gf's brother does work for one of the top ramen shops (in japan) and has cooked some for us
from what he tells me it takes many years of experience to make really good ramen so I don't even bother to try
but best of luck! Like sushi.. it's an art form all to it's own.
My favorite by far is the hakata style
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Re: Ramen Noodles [Re: Sulfurshelfsean]
#17622166 - 01/28/13 05:04 AM (7 days, 18 hours ago)
My recipe was:
1 1/2 cup flour
2 eggs
2 tablespoons water
a dash of baking powder
1 1/2 tablesoons salt
Mix the dry ingredients, beat the eggs together, make an indent in the dry ingredients to sit the eggs and water in then mix together. I used an automatic mixer for about five minutes and then started kneading it. Cant say how long but until it was just a little sticky. let it sit for thirtyfive minutes, used a rolling pin to stretch it and cut it up on a cutting board with flour so they didnt stick. cooked in two minutes with fresh noodles. BAM!
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#17622171 - 01/28/13 05:05 AM (7 days, 18 hours ago)
hey man, dont tell me not to try xP But I do have a question do you thin north american bamboo can stack to the japanese stuff? if you can find out for me that'd be sweet!
Oops sorry, I didnt realize you meant yourself its real late and i misread that. five am here.
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Re: Ramen Noodles [Re: Sulfurshelfsean]
#17622186 - 01/28/13 05:14 AM (7 days, 18 hours ago)
honestly I have no idea.. pretty sure if I ask the answer would be to use the japanese stuff :P
no clue what the difference is. I actually don't like eating the bamboo either way.
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Re: Ramen Noodles [Re: Shroomism]
#17622744 - 01/28/13 11:31 AM (7 days, 11 hours ago)
I think it's easy to find good ramen in any large Japanese populous. It's a very common everyday meal, as i'm sure you know.
The idea that it takes years to master has to do with perfecting a great recipe for the broth, along with people who make the noodles by hand is a real craft. To get noodles which are thin but still toothsome is the real challenge.
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Re: Ramen Noodles [Re: LiquidSmoke]
#17623449 - 01/28/13 02:48 PM (7 days, 8 hours ago)
Good broth is not difficult. Boil some konbu and, for a shorter time, bonito flakes. Strain it out, add miso, and stir it up.
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Re: Ramen Noodles [Re: LiquidSmoke]
#17626676 - 01/29/13 12:42 AM (6 days, 22 hours ago)
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I think it's easy to find good ramen in any large Japanese populous. It's a very common everyday meal, as i'm sure you know.
The idea that it takes years to master has to do with perfecting a great recipe for the broth, along with people who make the noodles by hand is a real craft. To get noodles which are thin but still toothsome is the real challenge.
yeah fo sho. I didn't mean to say that you have to be a master to make ramen.. as it is commonplace everyday meal.
I just meant to craft the 'real' top level ramen (they take that shit super for serious in Japan) takes a lot of dedication and experience to perfect.
Especially the noodles as you say, but also the broth and how it is made with the meat. It's a science and an art form.
It's kinda like sushi. Anyone could fluff up some rice with vinegar and sugar, slap a roll together with some cut fish and call it sushi.
But to make to the best quality consistently takes many years experience, as in Japan you must apprentice for years just perfecting the rice before they will even let you cut the fish.
