DIY Instant Noodle Cups

Sep 29, 2014 4:19 PM

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Kimchi Beef Noodles

Step-by-step for how to make kimchi beef instant noodles. Full instructions here: http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/diy-instant-noodle-cups-food-lab.html

Chicken Dill Noodles

Step-by-step for how to make chicken and dill instant noodles. Full instructions here: http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/diy-instant-noodle-cups-food-lab.html

Vegetable, Miso, Sesame Flavor

Vegetable base, miso paste, tahini, and soy sauce with spinach, sliced mushrooms, and carrots. Add hot water, then stir in scallions. Full instructions here: http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/diy-instant-noodle-cups-food-lab.html

Shrimp Coconut Curry

Thai red curry paste, chicken base, chili-garlic sauce, fish sauce, brown sugar as the soup base. Sliced mushrooms, dried rice noodles, and cooked shrimp. Cilantro, scallions, and lime wedges in the flavor packet. Full instructions here: http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/diy-instant-noodle-cups-food-lab.html

You are a beautiful person for posting this...

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think we need to talk about the definition of the word "instant"

12 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

So if I randomly this comment, I won't forget about this post? Right?

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Kimchi, eh?

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Need a room mate?

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Hipster level: Mason jars

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Asian soup, da best soup.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Saved but i will never use this

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Damnit! Those jars are for weed!

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fresh dill in an office setting. *shudder*

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So much effort when I can spend $.69 on a cup-o-noodles. I get that it is healthier but healthiness is the last concern when eating these.

12 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 3

At least I don't feel like crap after eating one of these.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think taste is the main concern with these. :P That first one looks incredible. Same with the coconut curry shrimp one. Hnnnnnng

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

You put effort into better food, in the sense of taste, quality and nutrition. Yes you can be 'lazy' and just do that but it's not as good.

12 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Not just lazy, but affordable. Just that small serving of shitake mushrooms is likely 2x as much as an entire pack of cup-o-noodles.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Idk why you got downvoted. You're completely right.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Using regular Kimchi in soup is HORRIBLE. You need sour (overly ripe) Kimchi bases. Also, beef jerky? Really!?

12 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

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12 years ago (deleted Mar 31, 2018 6:55 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Miso is great.

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The jerky will rehydrate, so it'll be chewy strips of beef. Not shitty.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No one ever would have known that dried meat would rehydrate in water. I was talking about the additives, sodium and cost.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hate shiitake mushrooms with a passion :/

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why!? They're so good!

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not sure, I kinda find their flavour to be a bit too 'neutral', let's say I was eating some spicy ramen, then BAM, neutral shiitake cuts in

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Haha okok yeah I get what you mean, it's an acquired taste I guess.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As a Korean, don't take kimchi soup to work if you don't want some of your Co-workers to hate you.

12 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 1

I made and brought kimchi fried rice to work one day..no one could figure out what the weird smell was. I enjoyed their suffering.

12 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

Yeah, I was about to say...most smelly food isn't THAT bad but kimchi has a powerful and persistent odor.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Fuck them, I eat what I want.

12 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Yeah you do ;)

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As one of those co-workers (not yours, specifically), I endorse this statement.

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

We could be co-workers. Neva know...

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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12 years ago (deleted Feb 9, 2015 6:27 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

And downvoted cuz assholes can't take a joke.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

proving Texas is full of racist douchebags

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

No, just that some of us aren't pussies and get our panties in a bunch when we don't get THE JOKE.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

If you have to defend yourself, it wasn't a good joke.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Genius. I'll have to try these!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hate that font.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm thinking you missed the top point of eating cup noodles. You lost all fucks about health nutrition and you have zero motivation to cook.

12 years ago | Likes 198 Dislikes 6

Just cook some normal pasta; even better with whole-grain. I get it that the tittle is a bit misleading, but it doesn't change the idea.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You're so right!

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Or you're poor as dirt

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Yes! Thank you.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Don't see it as an alternative to cup noodles. See it as a quick, nutritional, yummy lunch you can bring to work.

12 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 3

"quick"

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Quick once you're at work. These are just some preparations the night before.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And they're dirt cheap

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

I mean the prep time on this alone has to disqualify it from being 'instant'

12 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

But you can do that the night before, then take it to work. It's supposed to be a healthy, easy lunch, not a lazy meal.

12 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

still not instant though, is it?

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But then it's not instant noodles. You can do the same with a sandwich.

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Wait, a sammich is a level of difficulty up from instant noodles in your book? The hell do you put on those buggers?

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

There are many other foods out there that are more nutritious and less time consuming. This is just a fucking circlejerk for pinterest girls

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

10/10 will try this when I... who am I kidding, I'm going to forget about this as soon as I click next

12 years ago | Likes 343 Dislikes 7

Me: Maybe if I favorite it I'll do it one day.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

story of my life.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just put it in my Favorites, so I can forget about it there.

12 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 1

AHAHHAHAHAHA

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'll stare at the pictures, imagining what it tastes like while eating my fried bologna & velveeta sammich.

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

same here except I'm eating microwaved tortilla chips with american cheese on the top.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's why I'm adding it to favorites, so in 2 months I'll be like "Oh, I should try that", and maybe do it in another 2 months.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Next time please make the jars into 64oz big gulps for scale

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Tip on the spicy kimchi beef, if using Better than Bullion DO NOT use a freaking tablespoon!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also go mildly on the chili garlic oil or you'll end up with something that resembles seawater mixed with sriracha and bhut jolokia.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also, skip the beef jerky only adds MORE salt. If you follow this recipe as posted you will not like it, unless you're a deer.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Does fishsauce have shellfish in it?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I made this a few weeks ago and got the jars from https://glaspak.com/bormioli-fido-jars

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nope, sorry, that's my weed jar.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

"Chicne base"

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

it's spelled correctly, it's just that the letters are spaced weird

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Looked for this comment, finally found it. Take a +1 and get on up there, you detailed-oriented fucker!

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

How has no one else?! What is that?

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

How has no one else what?

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Mentioned the chicne

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Step One: Cup Step Two: Noodles

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Cup Noodle is what you make when you don't have any food... Why would you turn food into a Cup Noodle?

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Well....this makes the sandwich I just ate for lunch look like a beaver shat poplar bark into my lunchpail.

12 years ago | Likes 608 Dislikes 2

The irony here is that we've ALL eaten castoreum... aka Beaver Shit Oil.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

+1 for specifying cheap wood

12 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Still a better love story than Twilight.

12 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

You're not very poplar at work, are you?

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I laughed through my nose like a retard for like a minute straight. +1 for you

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Haha poplar

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This comment is so Canadian, Brian Adams, Celine Dion, and Justin Bieber just had a threesome.

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Meanwhile. Im at lunch like http://imgur.com/byLD59b

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Eloquently stated, +1 to you.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Am I the only one that finds sandwiches horridly boring and depressing?

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yeah, everyday my sandwiches commit suicide...in my mouth.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

+1 for using an ugly wood.. its all about the details.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Beaver" and "shat". Two beautiful words. :3

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Vous êtes un vrai maître de la poésie du langage culinaire

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gracias!

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

canadian???

12 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

You had to ask!

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Northern Wisconsin. A.K.A. "The Canadian Tropics."

12 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Pacific NW?

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My first thought was Minnesotan.

12 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

doncha know

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You are a funny person. Thank you

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You are a poet, good Sir.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As someone who eats ramen at work, thank you. I have been wanting fresher, better noodles for work. +1billion if I could.

12 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

man, eating your homemade lunch at work really is great. I was a line cook for 2 years, and now I work in an office.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The days I have to buy lunch are just that much worse and disorienting.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

None of these are instant.

12 years ago | Likes 83 Dislikes 5

And before using DIY, people used the term 'recipe'.

12 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Except the amount of time to eat the tiny portion.

12 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Step 1: find cooked noodles

12 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 1

Playing Skyrim for 90 hours has prepared me, you'll find freshly cooked noodles in a tomb five miles north that's been sealed for centuries

12 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1

This made me genuinely laugh at loud.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Those tombs are sealed for freshness.

12 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0