How to make Ramen Noodles with Dry Pasta (Ramen Experiment)

What everybody .

Welcome back to the Way of Ramen today .

We have a quick but pretty amazing , Ramen hack .

I saw some videos floating around Japanese youtube where these people were making ramen noodles using just pasta .

I was skeptical but I decided to give it a try myself .

I was pretty surprised to find out that this method creates a completely passable ramen noodle .

And as you saw in the intro , I was pretty shocked .

It's a great trick to have if you're ever craving Ramen and you don't have the noodles on hand and it's super simple .

All right , let's get right into this one .

It's gonna be fun .

So we're gonna start off by getting one liter of water into a pot and bringing it to a boil .

Once the water is boiling , we're gonna add the only secret ingredient for this method which is baking soda .

We're gonna add one tablespoon of baking soda per one liter of water .

So if you're using two liters of water , add two tablespoons of baking soda , et cetera , et cetera .

We're gonna add some salt just to flavor the noodles .

And as for the noodles , I chose to use thin spaghetti to try to get it to look similar to ramen noodles , but any type of dried pasta should work .

We're gonna need to cook the noodles for two minutes longer than what it says in the box .

So I'm gonna go eight minutes for this box that says six minutes .

The baking soda provides the alkalinity that the ramen noodles have .

These noodles have all the basic ingredients of ramen noodles , wheat water salt .

And so in theory , this does make sense .

A lot of foam is gonna come out as you cook noodles .

So I tested another Japanese old wives tail out which says if you lay chopsticks over a pot , it prevents the pot from boiling over .

It did not work .

And I had to scoop off the foam as it boiled .

After eight minutes , I had strained the noodles and then added it to the soup that I made .

The soup was a recipe off cook pad that had great reviews .

It sucked .

So I won't waste your time on how to make it unlike the soup .

However , the noodles smelled tasted and felt just like real ramen noodles so much .

So that the only thing that really gives them away is the fact that they're round .

Unlike real Ramen noodles , which are usually square cut , of course , real noodles are gonna be better .

But considering how quick and easy this is , it's definitely a cool half worth trying .

I think these noodles would go great with the 10 minute showy Ramen video or the easy Ramen video on this channel .

So if you're new to making Ramen , give those a shot and let me know how it goes .

I'm still learning how to make good ramen .

In fact , I would say that I'm actually not very good at making ramen yet .

So I started a podcast where I interview people who are much better at making ramen than me .

In the past episode , I had the one and only Ramen .

Lord Mike sat over on the show and we had a great discussion about all things ramen .

And he also answered a bunch of questions from you guys .

So if you want to hear that podcast or all the other podcast that I'm doing , you can go search on itunes , Spotify , Google podcast or you can listen to on the website of ramen dot com .

Just search Way of Rain podcast and all those platforms .

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