Pressure and time. That’s all it takes. I followed u/ramen_lord‘s Pressure Cooker Tonkotsu recipe posted in the r/Ramen subreddit sidebar. It went pretty well. Here’s the rough rundown: Added 2 pigs feet and 4lb neck bones to pot Boiled for 10 minutes and skimmed Discarded water. washed bones. washed pot Added clean bones to clean…
Author: Jay Radam
Professional nerd, hobby chef and wanna-be ramen cook.
Tsukemen is tso (so) frustrating
I’ve come so far and learned so little
I accomplished 2 things today:
I made low moisture ramen noodles that are thick, springy and flavorful. Wonderful for thick broths like miso but man – they are firm. That was the goal, right? 40% hydration and knead them with the neighborhood hydraulic press. Cut with axes and bam – alkali noodles. Today I managed to take these good noodles…
Sheer Genius
I made Tonkotsu broth from a pressure cooker. I was supposed to clean the bones of anything that could take away from the creamy white of the final product. I don’t think I did a good enough job as my final product more closely resembled a balsamic vinaigrette with too much oil. I tried…
Never tell me the odds…
Pressure cooking has always appealed to me because of its alchemic nature: you take the tough, apply science, and make tender.
Sultry sexy ramen….
I was making my first pressure cooker ramen broth the other day and while plating up my first bowl I found my phone camera tripod. Next time I will have better lighting and a better bowl but I thought this was pretty fun. Maybe I will also use a darker shoyu tare instead of this…
Can I just revisit Samurai Ramen?
Let’s take a mental stroll back to the Ramen Expo 2017 that went down in Austin Texas last year. I got in somehow as “press’ and was so stoked to be around my people I blathered out a basically incoherent account of my experience. It was hot. It was salty. It was definitely not a…
Rapid Ramen
Not instant but RAPID
The”New-to-Me” Austin Ramen spot
I am fully aware that the last few months have seen the opening of a couple more shops in Austin and the relocation of one of my favorite lunchtime spots. I was going through some photos and found these from December 2017. After we set out for ramen at the local and famous ramen-ya we…
Great Googly Moogly
I didn’t go as far as buying a questionable pasta machine from Alibaba like Alex the French Cooking Guy but I did get some tools to help my noodle craft. I am never going back. Making the flour do its dance with just the right amount of water was the tricky part. It was…
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