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…
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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…
Holy Cow! My favorite ramen is at my supermarket! Does it hold up?
Living in landlocked central Texas I have long given up hope of finding delicate seafood flavors in just about anything freeze dried on the shelf. I have bought packs upon packs of Nissin Raoh from Amazon and some websites ending in ‘.jp’. Nissin Raoh is the stuff. It was the first instant to blow…
New Ramen trends in Japan
I started my Instagram for the Uncommon Ramen Channel recently and found that ramen food porn is thankfully alive and well in Japan. I got an almost live-action peek into the ramen world from the front line, before it goes to Youtube, before it’s on a menu here in the states, before some celebrity chef…
The Uncommon Ramen Channel 