How To Make Ramen Noodles With Ivan Orkin 

how long of a cooking time?

unsmartnerd a minute or less when fresh, 3-4 minutes when dried.

thanks dude!

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he didnt bake the baking soda to give it that yellow color?

??? seriously???

Lmao

there is no real star. The noodles by themselves could be with anything, but could also taste like crap. the broth is just a soup by itself. The ramen is the combination of these elements. the star is the taste of it combined with the noodles and the broth along with the toppings. But if i had to pick, the noodles are in a way pretty important, but the soup flavors it really well ... so really the star is just the experience, because screw this. Itd be funny if yall broke up over ramen.

You shoulda just settled on rice...

+Joseph1NJ shit, you could have saved a relationship man...

well, an incredible soup at least hahhaha

Typically straight thin noodles go great with tonkotsu/shio broth.. Crinkled noodles pair well miso/shoyu... Then again I like them all any which way 🍜 :)

Yes, you do, but you also have to think about what's in the noodle. An Udon noodle is very different from a Soba Noodle in taste and texture. You'll notice that one broth might be great paired with one noodle, but absolutely tasteless with another noodle. You just have to try different things and see what works. Soups and ingredients vary from region to region, there is no right or wrong way to pair ingredients with your noodles. Use what you like, what's available and what's seasonal. Have some fun with it and try new things. If you want to learn about a whole bunch of ways to cook different kinds of noodles, read "Takahashi's Noodles," by Takahashi Yagihashi. This book was very helpful to me. Ivan Orkin's book "Ivan Ramen," is very good at explaining every step to how he makes his Ramen. I just want to point out that it is also an autobiography and it might make you cry. Also, don't be discouraged if you can't find every ingredient. There are ways to get stuff through the internet, Asian stores have most of what you need and you can plant stuff in your garden that you can't source here. Or, you could say F this, I'm doing it my way, which is what Ivan Orkin did and it made him famous.

Use sodium carbonate for a more springy/elastic texture. Bake your sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) for 1 hour at 350 degrees and it should give you sodium carbonate. Cheers!

Yes.

+Awesome Eats he added the baking soda... not sure what else you're looking for

exactly

I was wondering about the same, alkaline is a lot more stronger than normal baking soda. But using his exact recipe with just baking soda, my ramen turned out as good as most ramen shops that I tried in Tokyo.

Can you share your recipe of making the noodles? i have been trying to make them myself but it not what i like. The ones in japan is way better

he added baking soda and a tablespoon of salt...... cant get any more alkaline then that

Sun Noodle supplies the noodles, but it's Ivan's recipe. In this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r9l7ByKSNJ0.html you can see him going into the Sun Noodle factory to check out his noodles, and that the second set of noodles (the thinner ones that aren't wavy) have the exact same color, texture, etc as the noodles here. But I wouldn't doubt that they use kansui, and Ivan is just showing you how you can achieve decent noodles at home with baking soda, but who knows---they might actually use it for his noodles.

Water should be boiling but don't boil it too much unless you like soft noodles, I'm also pretty sure while he cooked the noodles in water, he stirred the noodles frequently with chopsticks. So I guess try that? If you did then Idk I've never made Ramen

have you tried to kinda play the noodles with cornstarch? you may view it at 2:30

I would have thought so, too, but I've been to Ivan Ramen (LES location), and the noodles had that distinct al-dente snap of a good ramen noodle. It looks like the baking soda does the job for the "bite and chew".

wolfram49 dude really put thought into it

He just showed you? That is how he makes noodles, maybe on a larger machine though.

+Jens Skautrup it would take too long in a pasta machine. He must have another kind of machine or does he hire people to make it by hand like Chinese noodles?

+Tipper1941 He has a ramen making machine that looks something like this chicago.seriouseats.com/images/2013/03/20130315-244589-ST-ramen-01.jpg

+Tipper1941 I thought almost all ramen shops in America go to Sun noodle and the shop just provides recipe. Eater has a video about it and Ivan is in that episode i think..

+chuenwinglam well I'm not too sure about America, but I know many ramen-ya's in Japan own their own ramen making machine. It comes down what kind of noodles the chef is looking for! I know Ivan made his own ramen in house back in Tokyo.

Since the pasta maker is only the tool for the shape of noodles, it doesn't really matter, as long as the noodles come out thin for the texture of the noodles after they're cooked. As long as you want the noodles in the same shape, the way the maker does, you can make any Pasta, Ramen etc with it.

***** Thanks !!!

Recognize Real I have a ramen restaurant and the equipment to make your own noodle on daily basis doesn’t look like that.. Its a big operations making noodles for 300-400 guests per day. this was obviously just for the segment.

Why? In most English speaking countries we don't have noodle makers. Pasta maker does a pretty decent job.

You can do noodles by hand. Look up soba or udon makers. Ramen is typically made with very little water which makes hand kneading from unfeasible to impossible.

he owns several successful ramen shops in tokyo and won national ramen contest.

who cares? he's still some white guy who is telling japanese people how to cook japanese food. there are ways of expressing things without putting down an entire culture.

That white guy is considered among the ramen gods over there. He's arguably top 2 living ramen cooks. Watch the newest season of Chef's Table. He lived in japan for 20 years and both of his wives were japanese. He improved upon something that needed an improvement and now thousands of japanese ramen shops have improved their quality as consequence. Out of over 80,000 ramen shops in japan this guys was consistently rated #1 the whole time he lived there.

Erasmus Tóth okay. The person above also said he's good. Fine. Good for him. I still don't care. But he still doesn't have to be a pretentious jerk. I still stand by my comment. He could be the best that ever lived and I'd still stand by my comment. A little humility goes a long way. Dissing an entire culture seems to be a think you guys are okay with.

He owned and ran one of the most popular ramen resturants in Tokyo, I think he has earned the right to speak his mind. I think your biggest problem is that he's white.

Fifty percent is...

Actually it is.

H P - the other fifty percent is about the broth

There's not much you can say to someone that is the King of their craft. Pretentious? No. More like he knows his shit and knows that he does.

B. Reece he thinks he fixed ramen noodles. That comes off as pretentious. Idk where he was getting his ramen..

Pretentious or not, he's doing something right. Being an expat myself, I can tell you that he's not wrong about ramen culture being mostly broth-centric.

Well the noddles are ment to a complement to the other ingredients right?

I was actually thinking the same thing as I watched

Yeah, I know what you mean. Had the same thought.

Lol imagine wanting to pay 5 dollars for something that took at least 48 hours to make.

+Moon SKeetz it's in the video @1:17 if you paid attention.

+Sekundez666 aaahhhh. hehe good looks