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All You Ever Wanted to Know...and More - cjs - 09-24-2013
about Ramen - I found this article/blog/whatever so very interesting. I love ramen and have since the author's same time frame, except I didn't go to college that young.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/09/the-serious-eats-guide-to-ramen-styles.html
Re: All You Ever Wanted to Know...and More - labradors - 09-24-2013
Haven't given up yet: one of these days I SHALL make the noodles by hand.
Re: All You Ever Wanted to Know...and More - cjs - 09-24-2013
You know I've thought of doing that now and then over the years. Do it and let me know how hard it is.
Re: All You Ever Wanted to Know...and More - Mare749 - 09-24-2013
This is an interesting article. I would love to try all of them.
Re: All You Ever Wanted to Know...and More - labradors - 09-24-2013
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You know I've thought of doing that now and then over the years. Do it and let me know how hard it is.
So far, I haven't gotten the dough just right, so I've never been able to stretch them repeatedly.
From what I've seen and read more recently, two things may account for this. First, I just may not be kneading them properly or enough (i.e. gluten not sufficiently developed). Second, one of the ingredients that's supposed to make a difference is the kansui - an alkaline water. Some of the recipes I've seen call for sodium carbonate ("washing soda") and, since I made a batch of this (via the baked-baking-soda technique) when experimenting with bagels, I now DO have this component to make another attempt at the ramen.
P.S.: It is probably considerably easier to cut the ramen with a pasta machine, as described in David Chang's Momofuku book, but I want to be able to do THIS.
Re: All You Ever Wanted to Know...and More - cjs - 09-24-2013
Me, too!