reminds me of the heatsink-spoon i want to market.

shin ramen is the way to go. man, styling the fan on the hand is old-school. you need to get some fans on a helmet pointed down towards your food.

OMFG! I'm eating ramen right now! Haha!

...Chicken flavored.

damm...now i'm hungry for some ramen too...

and i also love Shin Ramen from Korea...

the best (non-cup) ramen is made w/ a poached egg.

heat water to a full boil
drop in the noodles
let it soften after 5 seconds
crack an egg right into the center, and preserve the yolk
cover the egg yolk w/ a thin layer of noodles
put in the spices
mix the noodles but don't mess w/ the yolk, you want to leave that gold and only half cooked, so you sort of have to stir around it
the egg whites will absorb some of the spices
remove from heat after the noodles have softened

if you do it right, you'll pour the noodles into a bowl, find the yolk, and break it over the noodles. top ramen w/ some slightly hard yolk is AWESOME. if you like it well enough, you can try w/ two eggs next time.

I'll take a bowl of real ramen please! Chashu ramen in a soy based soup is the reason I live. All of this packaged ramen talk is breaking my heart.

I would never use this thing, especially outside of the house.

you've got to be kidding, right? a fan to cool your noodles? Have we become so lazy that we can't even blow on our food to cool it off?

Sad.

Oh, jcy, that sounds like an interesting recipie. I usually break the egg in just as the noodles are finished cooking, break the yolk and stir for all I'm worth to keep it from sticking to the pot. Throw in some frozen veggies with the noodles, too & you've got yer whole, balanced meal that you can eat right out of the pot.

Funny to see someone else with my same style of eating Top Ramen ^. But I also add Tabasco sauce.

Yup, Shin Ramyun is the best by far! And you wouldn't dare add Tabasco sauce to it... unless you were a madman, perhaps.

Another crappy Christmas gift for people you hate. Thank you Gizmodo for the great shopping ideas!

Why don't you just put a fan next to your bowl? Why the feature creep for a device that's been around for thousands of years.

Kind of like calling gay marriage, marriage.

oh wait... did I go too far?

This product was actually featured in a book dedicated to 'useless inventions' called Chindogu.

Apparently Chindogu is a cult hobby where people devise useless inventions just for the hell of it. The main rule of a Chindogu invention is that it should serve a purpose but be completely useless and impractible to actually adopt. The moment a Chindogu invention has some sort of practical use, it no longer is classified as being a chindogu invention.

Check out the ten tenets of Chindogu!
[www.chindogu.com]

Yeah, I have the Chindogu books and that's where the ramen fan is from. I *am* kind'a surprised that no one's made a real "ramen fan" though. I'd buy it!

Just looking at that photo and wondering if this could possibly be real cracks me up...

Then I can't help thinking it's not a horrible idea, if the fan was much smaller.

Sapporo Ichiban Ramen original flavor rules!

I promise a fortune to whatever company makes vegetarian ramen-style noodles first. They all have beef, chicken, or seafood buried somewhere deep in the ingredients.

haha wow this reminds me of that stupid noodle splash guard invention once upon a time.

Nong Shim ramen, baby!!!

Throw in some bok choi, bean sprouts, spam, kimchee, and a raw egg and I'm in heaven!