Dining and Cooking
Do you have pasta at home? Boil it with food-grade baking soda to turn it into ramen noodles! Here's the ramen I made. Italians, please don't be mad. This is an emergency technique for when there are no ramen noodles, and it's a science-backed hack from us Japanese.
In Ramen

Do you have pasta at home? Boil it with food-grade baking soda to turn it into ramen noodles! Here’s the ramen I made. Italians, please don’t be mad. This is an emergency technique for when there are no ramen noodles, and it’s a science-backed hack from us Japanese.

Do you have pasta at home? Boil it with food-grade baking soda to turn it into ramen noodles! Here’s the ramen I made. Italians, please don’t be mad. This is an emergency technique for when there are no ramen noodles, and it’s a science-backed hack from us Japanese.

by 8StarSeeker8

5 Comments

  1. WhetherWitch

    Fascinating! What’s the science behind this?

  2. puto-bumbong

    I actually learned this from watching Chef of South Polar (2009 Japanese movie). While they didn’t use actual pasta and baking soda together, the movie explained that ramen noodles can be made with water that has baking soda-like minerals (kansui, iirc). Googled that pasta can be boiled in baking soda water to make it ramen-like!

  3. volareohohoh

    Interesting! It totally makes sense. How much baking soda do you use?

  4. Buttock

    I’ve heard this trick a few times, but the real pro tip I wanna know is if spaghetti is the best italian pasta to use for this.

    What about capellini? Vermicelli? Fuckin’…bucatini?!

Write A Comment