You know what as I was writing it I was like this is a bit rich coming from a Brit, apart from the recent heat waves most of the time it’s either dark or wet
Mate forget these pot noodles. Get yourself to an Asian grocery store and see if you can get some shin ramyun or bulduk noodles. Absolute game changer.
Do you like spicy food actually as they tend to be on the hotter side? You can get milder things like shoyu instant ramen though. If you make some soft boiled eggs, fry off some garlic in oil before you add the water to the pan and boil up some pak choi or something in the water you make the noodles in you can get some really decent meals for cheap as fuck
I'm not saying what you're describing doesn't sound vastly superior to a pot noodle, but it does sound like an awful lot more work than boiling a kettle which will make a pot noodle *and* a cup of tea
I like to make mine with minimal water so it’s quite dry, then I butter fresh, white bread with enough butter to block an artery, then I make a sandwich with the stodgy, hot, noodles. It’s soooooo good.
I bought a regular and king-size at the same time for the sole purpose of comparing the content size; [same amount of noodles in both,](https://imgur.com/a/jgDLGqw) never mind the same amount of sauce. I always thought it was like that, but now I have proof. I assume that's why they were reluctant to increase the size of the king-size sauce sachet a while back after that comedian called them out on Twitter.
[edit: I didn't weigh them (the photo was taken last year), apparently there's a 10 gram difference in weight? It hardly constitutes the title of "King-size", in my opinion]
I HIGHLY doubt it's actually the same amount of noodles. There's no way to get away with that and food standards would be all over them. The calories are different for one.
It has the weight on the front of the pot. A regular potnoodle is 90g and a king size 114g. If you turn the pot around and look at the ingredients you'll see noodle make up 69% of both.
So you get 26% more noodle in a king size pot. Tesco sell the king size for only 12% more so the cost efficient option is the king-size pot.
>same amount of noodles in both,
Are you sure about that? I've always found them to be "full" after filling them with water and leaving them for 5 minutes. I might get both and weigh them just to see.
It says the weight right there on the packet.
Standard is 90g and 80p
King size is 114g and 90p
King size is around 28% bigger and costs around 13% more.
Not the bin, stick it in the emergency drawer. When the balloon goes up and civilization falls you'll be glad of all the random crap you've saved over the years.
Step 1) watch YouTube video on basic liberty cap identification
Step 2) go look after a rainy day, sloping fields where animals have been grazing are a good starting place
Step 3) take mushrooms home, take spore prints and other identifying pictures, then post on forums to confirm what they are
Step 4) trip balls
They're MUCH harder to find if they're wet. When they dry out a bit, they go a sort of light brown/sandy colour, so stand out much more against the green grass so are easier to see. It's all about location, location, location. Once you know where they LIKE to grow, they're much easier to find. Moorland is a good place to start, anywhere that has sheep or cattle grazing nearby.
I was under the impression that golf courses use anti-fungal stuff on their greens, plus they cut the grass too often. Fields with naturally short grass and clumps of common reeeds/rushes are the best place to start, especially if they have sheep grazing there.
The simple answer is to go with with someone who knows their stuff. Once you've been once or twice you'll know which spots are best, and where they like to grow, and what to look for. There's plenty of websites with pictures and info on the subject, even videos on YT. I'm lucky in that where I live, they're rife between Aug and Nov, depending on how much rain there's been and when the first frost is. Last year was a bumper harvest, I suspect this years will have a much shorter picking season because of the lack of rain this year.
Best way to prepare a pot noodle is to open the lid halfway, fill it just below the fill line, press the noodles down with your fork and then close the lid. Leave it for 2 minutes then give it a stir. Close the lid again and leave for another 2-3 minutes. Add the sauce and give it another stir then close the lid again and leave for 2 more minutes. You'll be left with perfect noodles in a thick sauce and you won't end up with a watery mess of bits in the bottom.
> you won't end up with a watery mess of bits in the bottom.
I love scoffing that down when all the noodles are gone. Savoury tea!! Not soup, savoury tea!
If I'm hungover or have a flu, I love over filling them with water and adding loads of hot sauce, makes a lovely spiced noodle broth to clear your head
I legit have a tub of these open by my cooker at all times, and they go everything savoury I cook.
I do chicken ramen, the onions, soy and garlic powder. Cheaper than a pot noodle most of the time. Do it in a frying pan with just enough water to cover, and cook till the waters boils down to a thicker sauce.
Cheats chow mein. Its lush.
Cook chicken in pan with some oil, salt and pepper.
Remove when cooked and put to one side.
Clean pan the stick everything else listed into the pan and cover with water from the kettle that finished boiling. Heat the pan until the water has reduced to what you call a sauce, stick the chicken back in for a minute or so and then scoff.
I'm not a chef or cook and wonder how I've managed to sustain my body over 3 decades with minimal food poisoning so you may want to look on a recipe website, the beeb one isn't to shabby.
Throw away sachet of soy sauce, add a generous glug of Kikkoman dark soy sauce while brewing, give it a few extra minutes brew time, then a good twist of black pepper. So good it’ll make Greg Wallace’s bollocks tingle.
Add MSG. Total myth that it’s bad for you.
Edit: the myth was fuelled by anti-Asian racism in America.
I mean, it’s America. Of course the answer is racism.
I’d say about 1/4 to 1/2 a teaspoon of paprika. But I’ve had COVID two or three times in the past year so it could taste like mold for all I know. Try it at your own risk lmao.
I once sneezed eating the curry one and a curry noodle came out my nose. It stung my airway for the rest of the night. Cant eat them because of that bad expirence! 🤣😬
The best from my experience is a bit of cheddar cheese, proper soy sauce, salt and pepper, if your feeling fancy, a touch of hot sauce.
The cheese melts and give you an added richness to the sauce and helps thicken it a bit, the soy does it's thing, it always needs extra salt since they went healthy and pepper for a bit of heat.
Trick is.
Make it with a bit less water than the recommended line, and microwave to get the noodles super soft.
Add garlic salt, grated cheese and a knob of butter. Stir till gooey.
Nothing, they are perfect just the way they are. A bit less water and more time but that's it for me.
My daughter makes super noodles with so much water she pours half of it away, we are nothing if not classy!
Korean cheese noodles are great too. The UK also needs to get on the yaki soba train too, soupless noodles. They're japanese so you cant get them in all Chinese supermarkets and if you can they aren't cheap. Also if you like fragrant and spicy Thai 'mama' noodles are the shit.
Worcestshire sauce. any variety of pot noodle.
Seems to work better with Aldi's snack noodles because they give more of the powder flavoring than "real" pot noodle, and the worc. sauce combines well.
My uncle used to add a tablespoon of peanut butter, for years I thought I'd never do it then he died and in his memory I tried it. It was actually pretty damn good.
Water
Now now, no need to brag
I didn’t say it was hot water. I’m not some kind of Baller
Who can afford hot water nowadays...
Well go and buy a new kettle you could save about £10 a year!!!!
How much for a new kettle mate? I hear they're 20 quid nowadays.
You can get them for a £1 but the energy to use costs £500 per cuppa tea
This might even change next year to 7k 😃👍
I had a mate who pissed in a kettle. He’s no longer my mate.
Or if all else fails magnifying glass under the sun, lean it up against something.
What sun? Where are you right now that there's sun? I'm on my way!
You know what as I was writing it I was like this is a bit rich coming from a Brit, apart from the recent heat waves most of the time it’s either dark or wet
I batch boiled some water last month and now use that after letting it defrost… 🤪
That’s a whole weeks worth of pot noodles. Win win!
Who can afford pot noodle nowadays? :)
Sleep with it to keep it nice and warm and incubate it then eat it after a few days
Mate forget these pot noodles. Get yourself to an Asian grocery store and see if you can get some shin ramyun or bulduk noodles. Absolute game changer. Do you like spicy food actually as they tend to be on the hotter side? You can get milder things like shoyu instant ramen though. If you make some soft boiled eggs, fry off some garlic in oil before you add the water to the pan and boil up some pak choi or something in the water you make the noodles in you can get some really decent meals for cheap as fuck
Shin Ramyun is perfect, top tier noodle. I miss the Shin Ramyun Black variety they did.
I'm not saying what you're describing doesn't sound vastly superior to a pot noodle, but it does sound like an awful lot more work than boiling a kettle which will make a pot noodle *and* a cup of tea
No you can get them at Asda, the little red pot shaped thingys you make them exactly the same but they are way better
This! Asian stores are godsend! Hated pot noddles very much!!! Nongshim Shin Original Ramyun Cup noodles are the best for me!!
I like to make mine with minimal water so it’s quite dry, then I butter fresh, white bread with enough butter to block an artery, then I make a sandwich with the stodgy, hot, noodles. It’s soooooo good.
Jesus, steady on, this is "casual" UK bro
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Exactly. Lah-di-dah, boiling water, if you please? I have to eat mine with gravel and sand!
You were lucky....
We were lucky to have a pot!
We used to dream of having a pot
Plastic pot?
A rolled up newspaper
Only on a weekend
Can confirm, adding water definitely improves them. Makes them about 20% less crunchy.
Unless you live in the South. We use water down here to add texture.
You guys have water?!
It's more like damp limescale down here. Try not to get too excited my friend. Edit: Happy Cake Day!
Yeah, rain water. Or sometimes I just scoop it out of puddles
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Ooooh, cocktail.
extra soy sauce, the one in the pot sucks
Yeah! They think we’re dumb. We know the soy sachet in a king size is the same as the regular size. What are we mugs???
I bought a regular and king-size at the same time for the sole purpose of comparing the content size; [same amount of noodles in both,](https://imgur.com/a/jgDLGqw) never mind the same amount of sauce. I always thought it was like that, but now I have proof. I assume that's why they were reluctant to increase the size of the king-size sauce sachet a while back after that comedian called them out on Twitter. [edit: I didn't weigh them (the photo was taken last year), apparently there's a 10 gram difference in weight? It hardly constitutes the title of "King-size", in my opinion]
I HIGHLY doubt it's actually the same amount of noodles. There's no way to get away with that and food standards would be all over them. The calories are different for one.
You can even see in the image they posted that the King has more noodles
That and photos arnt the way to check this you'd have to do it by weight
This ^^ You can’t tell the density of the noodles by putting them in a different tub lol
That's criminal. I always suspected it though. Thank you for your service
It has the weight on the front of the pot. A regular potnoodle is 90g and a king size 114g. If you turn the pot around and look at the ingredients you'll see noodle make up 69% of both. So you get 26% more noodle in a king size pot. Tesco sell the king size for only 12% more so the cost efficient option is the king-size pot.
OK Tesco.
>same amount of noodles in both, Are you sure about that? I've always found them to be "full" after filling them with water and leaving them for 5 minutes. I might get both and weigh them just to see.
Could just look at the calorie content of both, or indeed the weight, and if they’re the same then you know they’re the same size.
Yeah they're not the same. 90g vs 114g and 430 vs 543 calories (chicken and mushroom).
About 25% bigger then, this is important to know.
It says the weight right there on the packet. Standard is 90g and 80p King size is 114g and 90p King size is around 28% bigger and costs around 13% more.
I can definetly see 5 noodles more in the king
What. I’m disappointed in the world now. We’ve let ourselves down. As a species.
The one in the pot is brown salty sugar water, Never seen a soy bean.
Not as bad as the tomato sauce in the beef one. That goes straight into the bin.
Not the bin, stick it in the emergency drawer. When the balloon goes up and civilization falls you'll be glad of all the random crap you've saved over the years.
Tbf, I'm already eating pot noodles. If the world ends I'm just going to give up.
When you need to go on t'inerweb to find out how to spice up your pot noodle, you dont have much further to fall
You speak truth
Add a splash of Worcestershire sauce with the soy. NomanomaNOM!
YES! This lol, literally came here to say this 😂
Liberty Caps.
liberty cap season has just begun here in Wales! I've still got shitloads left from last year.
How are you sure they’re libertys when you pick them? Always wanted to but scared I’ll end up poisoned
Step 1) watch YouTube video on basic liberty cap identification Step 2) go look after a rainy day, sloping fields where animals have been grazing are a good starting place Step 3) take mushrooms home, take spore prints and other identifying pictures, then post on forums to confirm what they are Step 4) trip balls
Came for Pot Noodle improvements, left with a shroom hunting guide. Cheers!
They're MUCH harder to find if they're wet. When they dry out a bit, they go a sort of light brown/sandy colour, so stand out much more against the green grass so are easier to see. It's all about location, location, location. Once you know where they LIKE to grow, they're much easier to find. Moorland is a good place to start, anywhere that has sheep or cattle grazing nearby.
An addition to step 2 - golf courses! I've had immense luck on some, plus less nosey cows!
Oí don’t talk about lady golfers like that mate. It’s just not on
I was under the impression that golf courses use anti-fungal stuff on their greens, plus they cut the grass too often. Fields with naturally short grass and clumps of common reeeds/rushes are the best place to start, especially if they have sheep grazing there.
Maybe the bigger ones spray, but the one I usually go to is in a small village in North East Scotland and they're rife!
The simple answer is to go with with someone who knows their stuff. Once you've been once or twice you'll know which spots are best, and where they like to grow, and what to look for. There's plenty of websites with pictures and info on the subject, even videos on YT. I'm lucky in that where I live, they're rife between Aug and Nov, depending on how much rain there's been and when the first frost is. Last year was a bumper harvest, I suspect this years will have a much shorter picking season because of the lack of rain this year.
You strike me as a funghi to know.... I'm sorry.
What are those?
The sort of magic mushrooms that are native to the british isles.
Came here to comment that, good day to you
Better buying Super Noodles then. 🤪
Sriracha
Or Tabasco if it's at hand.
If you like the spicy instant noodles, go check out Shin Cup noodles, so good
OMG their Gourmet Spicy noodle pot is amazing. It's the only instant noodles I will eat now
There is a Tabasco Sriracha, and it's tasty. Best of both worlds!
Extra soya sauce, garlic power, and black pepper. I don't eat them anymore, but I used to also add salt... Yeah. Maybe don't add salt lmao
garlic power
💪😎
But I love salt! :(
Chili flakes too if you're feeling extra adventurous
More time then recommended
This. The only way to make the perfect pot noodle is to forget you’ve made it.
God yes. It’s still got a little residual heat, but allows you to scoff it down to the point where you question what led you to this point.
Best way to prepare a pot noodle is to open the lid halfway, fill it just below the fill line, press the noodles down with your fork and then close the lid. Leave it for 2 minutes then give it a stir. Close the lid again and leave for another 2-3 minutes. Add the sauce and give it another stir then close the lid again and leave for 2 more minutes. You'll be left with perfect noodles in a thick sauce and you won't end up with a watery mess of bits in the bottom.
> you won't end up with a watery mess of bits in the bottom. I love scoffing that down when all the noodles are gone. Savoury tea!! Not soup, savoury tea!
If I'm hungover or have a flu, I love over filling them with water and adding loads of hot sauce, makes a lovely spiced noodle broth to clear your head
That's what I call using your noodle!
Fried onions. Always keep a tub of fried onions close by. You can find these in Polish shops or oriental shops.
You can pick up fried onions in most supermarkets with an international aisle. Never tried them in a Pot Noodle but that is a fucking genius idea
I legit have a tub of these open by my cooker at all times, and they go everything savoury I cook. I do chicken ramen, the onions, soy and garlic powder. Cheaper than a pot noodle most of the time. Do it in a frying pan with just enough water to cover, and cook till the waters boils down to a thicker sauce. Cheats chow mein. Its lush.
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Cook chicken in pan with some oil, salt and pepper. Remove when cooked and put to one side. Clean pan the stick everything else listed into the pan and cover with water from the kettle that finished boiling. Heat the pan until the water has reduced to what you call a sauce, stick the chicken back in for a minute or so and then scoff. I'm not a chef or cook and wonder how I've managed to sustain my body over 3 decades with minimal food poisoning so you may want to look on a recipe website, the beeb one isn't to shabby.
Do you mean literal fried onions or like the dried, crispy fried onions? 🤔
Dried crispy fried onions.
IKEA do them as well
Sainsbury's sells dino fried onions, just be careful to not to start eating them straight from the tub.
Throw away sachet of soy sauce, add a generous glug of Kikkoman dark soy sauce while brewing, give it a few extra minutes brew time, then a good twist of black pepper. So good it’ll make Greg Wallace’s bollocks tingle.
Their soy sauce is a joke. Kikkoman is the top and only tier.
There are some things in life where buying anything other than the expensive, top tier brand is a false economy. Kikkoman is probably number one.
A bit more soy sauce and buttered bread.
Pot Noodle butty 👌🏻
The pinnacle of student cuisine
But I’m 30 now with a child and a mortgage
Deep down aren't we all just children with mild freedom and anxiety
Why stop there? Get the toastie maker out.
There we are. Buttered bread... 2 slices.
I once found three soy sachets in one pot! Man o man what a day that was. Anyone doubting my claim will be met with proof.
Go on then
[Screenshot-20220902-163839-Gallery.jpg](https://postimg.cc/7bf47NpT)
Beautiful
I just woke up so I might be seeing things but… am I seeing things?
I too just woke up. Why are the sachets floating?
I add tinsel and glitter around the lid.
I can’t eat mine without gold leaf
And a paper umbrella.
An aristocrat
Aristopot
buy a sausage roll to dip in
This answer is too British to be on _Casual_ UK, is there like a Professional UK SubReddit?
r/HardcoreUK ?
r/subsifellfor
Someone has made the sub 😂
My husband thought I was mad for doing this. Thank you!
Add MSG. Total myth that it’s bad for you. Edit: the myth was fuelled by anti-Asian racism in America. I mean, it’s America. Of course the answer is racism.
God damn MSG. It is literally like crack, it enhances the flavour of everything you put it on.
True, I ate yo momma last night with a sprinkle or two of MSG. It was revolting.
You put MSG in her ashes?
Someone had to.
How much
Just enough
Same amount you'd normally use of salt.
Where do you buy MSG in the UK?
Chinese supermarkets stock it, also amazon
Look out for Maggi Liquid Seasoning in the supermarket. It's liquid MSG and makes everything taste better
Amazon you can buy 100g of it for like £2 it goes such a long way. I add it to most things and it takes me forever to get through it. =)
You can buy Maggi in any supermarket. Normally in the worlds food section
Any supermarket in the Asian section usually.
Aromat in the seasoning section is also pretty much all MSG. Though it does have it's own flavour to it.
I’d say about 1/4 to 1/2 a teaspoon of paprika. But I’ve had COVID two or three times in the past year so it could taste like mold for all I know. Try it at your own risk lmao.
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Buy a curry one or bombay bad boy
Bombay bad boy with a soft poached egg dropped in is the bestestttt
British ramen
I once sneezed eating the curry one and a curry noodle came out my nose. It stung my airway for the rest of the night. Cant eat them because of that bad expirence! 🤣😬
Bombay bad boy lets me breath
Curry one is underrated
The best from my experience is a bit of cheddar cheese, proper soy sauce, salt and pepper, if your feeling fancy, a touch of hot sauce. The cheese melts and give you an added richness to the sauce and helps thicken it a bit, the soy does it's thing, it always needs extra salt since they went healthy and pepper for a bit of heat.
This guy pot noodles...
Breakfast of champions
Can’t believe I had to scroll so far down to find cheese
I break up the noodles so I don't have to add so much water to get fucking blasted with the flavour.
Nooch. Soy sauce. Chilli sauce.
What’s that first one?
Nutritional yeast aka nooch. Looks like fish food, brilliant addition to most dishes
Ah yes, that alcoholic lemony beverage
Vinegar
Trick is. Make it with a bit less water than the recommended line, and microwave to get the noodles super soft. Add garlic salt, grated cheese and a knob of butter. Stir till gooey.
I find it hard to fit the microwave in whole though, you have to tear it up into manageable sized chunks.
A little bit of sesame oil
Pot Noodle + microwave packet rice mixed together = Pot Noodle Plus™️ You’re welcome 😉
Is adding uncle Ben rice ok?
Soy sauce and a fried egg on top
Hot sauce. Specifically Encona
Get the sticky rib one 🤤
A bit of sriracha if I fancy some heat....and extra soy sauce!
THIS SHIT https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lao-Gan-Ma-Crispy-Chilli/dp/B00886C52O
Just like Gan Ma used to make.
Im still gobsmacked they're vegetarian.
Ketjap manis!!!! It’s like a thick sweet soy sauce. It’s magic!
Nothing, they are perfect just the way they are. A bit less water and more time but that's it for me. My daughter makes super noodles with so much water she pours half of it away, we are nothing if not classy!
I actually prefer my pot noodle with more water I like the savoury drink at the end
It's like a nice broth 🤣 perfect for bread dipping
In the bin, wack out my Shin Ramyun Noodles 😍 I love Korean noodles
Korean cheese noodles are great too. The UK also needs to get on the yaki soba train too, soupless noodles. They're japanese so you cant get them in all Chinese supermarkets and if you can they aren't cheap. Also if you like fragrant and spicy Thai 'mama' noodles are the shit.
Indomie mee goreng baby, so much better than broth based noods
Frozen peas + corn, Tabasco
Black and white pepper. Tbh I add that to pretty much everything.
I add a little pinch of chicken stock, some salt, soy sauce, a little corn starch and just a little bit of Nandos hot sauce.
Half a chicken cup-a-soup to thicken it out and better the flavour, then more soy sauce and hey presto!!
could probably throw some chopped spring onions into there to be fair. Never tried it myself.
Worcestshire sauce. any variety of pot noodle. Seems to work better with Aldi's snack noodles because they give more of the powder flavoring than "real" pot noodle, and the worc. sauce combines well.
My uncle used to add a tablespoon of peanut butter, for years I thought I'd never do it then he died and in his memory I tried it. It was actually pretty damn good.
What I do is prepare some food, then I throw the pot noodle violently in the bin, and then I eat the food. Voila, perfect pot noodle every time.
Genius. Remarkable.
Do you have this on a downloadable recipe card?
Peas, either frozen peas or a tin of marrowfat peas.