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I use cook my ramen noodles in the bowl I would eat them out of
Looking back that's incredibly stupid but my thought at the time was, "I got to put the noodles in something, how about a bowl?"
So I'd put the noodles in a bowl (glass or porcelin or whatever they're made out of these days), pour water in, put it on the stove
Lucky the bowl never exploded on me
Why a pot wasn't the first thing that came to my mind I'll never know... Weirdly, I don't know when I realized I was being stupid. Just one day I was like, "I should put my noodles in a pot"
My younger one learned this lesson very dramatically when a glass measuring cup full of ramen blew up on the stovetop! No one got hurt, so it was a good lesson
I have to admit that no one ever said not to do that: it seems so fundamental. But even stuff that seems obvious have to be learned sonehow
Seems pretty normal, just pour the kettle into the bowl…
Oh, oh no…
Depending on the ramen this works in the microwave, as long as the bowl is microwave safe.
However, I've gotten into ramen that you drain (chopsticks work great to help drain, no colander needed!) after cooking so I've had to be slightly less lazy. Plus I can microwave the frozen veggies on a paper plate while the ramen's cooking on the stove. Then eat it from the saucepan!
I also like draining them and scatter-frying with an egg and veggies, cheese, or whatever
I would eat out of the pot instead. Now Im refined and I microwave the bowl of water to heat it up, once its close to boiling, drop the noodles in and put a lid on it to lock in the steam. Wait 5 minutes and were good to go.
That's great! I am impressed the bowls survived.
Even a pot shouldn't be the first thing that comes to your mind. It should be an electric kettle. Or are you from the US where you can't use electric kettles (efficiently) cos ur shitty electrical grid runs only on 120V and therefore it takes ages to boil the water lol
Good lord, that's terrible advice. Absolutely a pot should be the first thing that comes to mind. Electric kettle? I guess your idea of "ramen" is just pot noodles?
You guys are putting cannabutter on your noodles or something?
Dude how much Ramen do u eat in go that requires a pot? Just put the ramen in a bowl, boil some water with the kettle (since it is much faster than boiling it in a pot, unless u live in the backward country named the US) and pour the boiling water into the bowl. Jeez, do I really have to tell u how to make ramen lol. Also, boiling water with the kettle means one less thing to clean afterwards.
Some of us have kettles , even in the benighted medieval dystopia of the US, but we think of ramen as food, not something where you just add hot water.
A kettle? What's that?
I did try shooting my gun a whole bunch and cooking them with the heated up barrel
In Canada our electricity also only goes to 120v, but the simple solution for this is to utilize the already hot water from the water heater. The hot tap on full already comes out steaming. Add that to the electric kettle and it takes less than a minute to boil 500ml.
I've always been told the water from the hot water tap isn't safe to drink due to bacterial and mineral buildup in the water heater. Not that I can drink my tap water where I live anyway (America!) but even when I lived with delicous well water I never drank the hot tap water.
I thinks it’s more lead )and other metal) accumulation but yeah …..
The first time I remember hearing a specific , not generic, concern was when legionnaires became A thing several decades ago. People were turning down their water temperature to save money. But legionnaires is more tolerant of heat than most other germs, so there’s a window of opportunity where the water is hot enough to kill off most diseases but cool enough to let legionnaires flourish.
Even today, you’re supposed to keep hot water at 120°F at the tap to prevent scalding but your water heater at 140°F to kill off legionnaires. Most people dont
That's crazy, I've never heard that. I know our hot water heaters are kept high enough that bacteria can't grow, and every source I've found says the other risk is lead contamination, and we don't have any lead pipes in our house, so I'm going to assume this is an old outdated rule. Plus for the bacteria concern, it's being boiled again anyway.
Even without lead pipes, it may be worth testing ….
My reason for not putting hot water into the kettle is that I need to run the water for a bit to get it hot, and that takes longer than the few seconds I’d save
Well yeah, but if u put it into a kettle and boil it, it should be fine, cos boiling kills the bacteria.
Do me a favor, fill 2 cups, one with tap hot water, one with cold. Let them go to room temperature and taste them. Hot has a taste, and it's not great.