TIL Instant Ramens are safe to eat raw and are considered a savoury crunchy snack in many countries
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Yes you must try all the phases of ramen to become a true expert:
One more.. Drain noods and then toss some butter in the pan, mix the packet in , then toss the noods/fry in buttery ramen salty delicouness..
It says put two cups of water for top ramen. I only add one cup and boil the noodles until there isn't much water left. Kinda like wet but strained but without the straining.
Taste aside, why wouldn't it be safe to eat? Same goes for canned food btw, and something like ravioli are actually pretty decent cold.
You are absolutely right. They are a great crunchy snack.
But they are not raw. The noodles are pre-fried. That's why they are ready so quickly and also what makes them quite unhealthy.
How much are in the noodles vs the packet though? I have always used half or less of the flavor packet because it’s so salty tasting (and also I assumed it would reduce the sodium content too.
Yeah. High fat content in the noodles, high sodium in the spice packets.
Fat and sodium are 10-20% higher than when you buy the plain noodles.
Kids here open the outer package carefully, take out the bag with the powders and oil, open them and pour them into the bag, and crunch the noodles with the ingredients. Then they eat them as snacks. My reaction when my kids told me about this was "WHAT!?!?".
if you crush it up like this then cook it with about half the water it ends up like cheap rice a roni and it's delicious
I've done this with chicken flavoured instant noodles. They seem to taste better "raw".
There's also a kids snack that was (might still be) Mamee noodles when I was a kid. They're supposed to be a snack that was designed, I believe, to be eaten raw with the flavouring to be shaken in. At least that's what we used to do.
(This is in Australia)
Maggi chicken noodles.
This is the true way to enjoy dry instant noodles. Everyone else is wrong.
I've done something very similar, it's great!
I've also had them without the flavouring plenty of times. Then, I've used the extra flavour pack for extra flavour when cooking them.
I eat ramen this way now and then. Started in college when I was saving up for a wedding ring. It’s a poor man’s Doritos. Just break up a ramen brick into a bowl, shake the seasoning on top, and add a drizzle of your favorite hot sauce.
My favorite ramen to do this with is beef flavor Maruchan. I actually like it better this way than boiled into a soup.
Agreed beef is the best flavor for dry snacking, for me the oriental/blue one is the next best.
I have a friend who said they and their friends did this when they were kids. Seemed bonkers to me at the time, but even my partner recently told me she has eaten noodles this way.
I remember as kids, at some point my brother was just grabbing one of these before we went to school instead of making a lunch. It was a few years later by the time we were adults and I remarked how it must have been weird going into the teacher lounge to find a kettle or microwave or whatever when I learned, no, he'd open the bag and snack on it like a bag of chips.