Gizmodo: noodles

Meet Japan's Robot Ramen Chefs

Danny Allen — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:30:00 EDT

Nagoya's FuA-Men (Fully Automated raMen) restaurant features two assembly line style chef and assistant robots that can dish out 80 bowls of noodles a day.

Shop owner and robot manufacturer, Kenji Nagaya, told Reuters that the robots improve "the accuracy of timing in boiling noodles, precise movements in adding toppings and consistency of the taste and temperature of the soup." Oishii!

[Nilab and Reuters via Technovelgy]

Bandai's Somen-Making Noodleslide Is the Most Fun You Could Possibly Have With Food

Adrian Covert — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:30:00 EDT

I like to imagine this Bandai Noodle-maker/slide helped turn this family from dysfunctional and unhappy, to loving and close-knit. Do you see how much fun they're having watching their dinner fall 18-inches in dramatic fashion?

Lisa over at Tokyo Mango writes that the Somen noodles start their journey from the house at the top of the slide, twisting and turning their way to the bottom, where the food is met by a strainer. It also looks like there are parts of the slide that house extra ingredients or something. WOWEEE!

I want one, and I want one now. Maybe if I bring this home next time I have dinner with my parents, my dad won't consider me the great disappointment of his life? [Impress via Tokyo Mango]

Smallest Ramen Bowl in the World

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:30:00 EDT

According to legend, University of Tokyo professor Masayuki Nakao was bitten by a radioactive ramen bowl when he was a kid, which gave him the ability to spit 1-micron-wide bowls made out of silicon—full of dozens of 20-nanometer-think carbon noodles floating in an ethanol soup—at supersonic speeds. Or maybe he did this one with a metal particle beam to demo a new circuit manufacturig technology using carbon nanotubes. Whatever it is, they are low on sodium: two molecules per serving. [Pink Tentacle]

Japanese Rube Goldberg Machine Makes Ramen in Six Long Minutes

AddyDugdale — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:27:24 EDT

While this bowl of Ramen may not be instant &mdash just the way Adam Frucci likes 'em &mdash its creation is utterly, butterly wonderful, if a tad long-winded. Six minutes in the making, this Japanese Rube Goldberg-esque machine uses skittles, model cars and what looks like miniature junk sails to make a bowl of steaming noodles with an egg on top. The commentator should have got a medal for keeping up the excitement levels. [Spluch]

Ramen Noodle Cup Timer

Travis Hudson — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:47:00 EST

Because I am a poor, malnourished student, I have become one with the ramen noodles. Unfortunately I burn the hell out of my mouth because I am so eager to feed my mouth with scorching hot noodles. This ramen noodle cup timer is really just a basic timer. Dump the boiling water into the cup of noodles and place on the timer. It will ding when your noodles are cool enough to eat.

It also includes a red LED to give the impression that you are actually cooking the noodles on a small burner, you know, like hobos! Meh, kind of lame, kind of cool. $8

Product Page [Via Gearlog]

Japanese Ramen Timer Cap

Jason Chen — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:05:04 EDT

If you're like us, when you make Cup O' Noodles, you're either digging in way too early, which makes for a hard, bleachy feel, or way too late, which makes the noodles too soggy.

No more, with this Noodle Timer Cap from Japan. Set the time for 3, 4 or 5 minutes and come back when it's done. Pay $9 (plus shipping) and you'll never have bad noodles again. – Jason Chen

Noodle Cap [Rakuten via Red Ferret]

Sauce Dispensing Chopsticks For You, Mr. Lazy

gizmodo.com — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:26:14 EST

Ever been at a Chinese or Japanese restaurant and wonder why the hell you have to deal with a seperate dish for your sauce or wasabi? I mean, this is America, so my sauce isn't dealing with any of that Commie BS, thank you very much. Well, we've got an out: Sauce Dispensing Chopsticks. Throw your duck sauce in one, your soy in the other and you're good to go. Just give them a squeeze over your food to spice life up a little and not conform to commie noodle standards. They're going for $21 and are washable, obviously, so don't chuck 'em after your first meal.

Sauce Dispensing Chopsticks