Originally published at: From Dough to Cup: Instant Ramen's Mesmerizing Journey - Boing Boing
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The average person in Japan eats almost 50 packages of instant noodles.
Daily? Weekly? Monthly? Annually? In their lifetime?
I guess annually, but once a week per person on average doesn’t seem that high.
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Related but the one (and only) time i went to Japan i visited the Cup Noodle museum and it was actually loads of fun, and there is a ramen noodle making class you can sign up for but by the time we found out that was a thing the slots had all been booked. However you can also have custom cup noodles made and you can decorate the container before hand, it is worthwhile if you’re in the Tokyo area 
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Watching the video made my mouth water. Instant ramen is still a treat, even in middle age. My kids love it too. Thank you Momofuku!
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At once?
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Sumo wrestlers?
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That was a genuinely interesting and oddly relaxing video to watch. Reminded me of some of the factory videos Mr. Rogers used to show.
The thing I really wanted to know about ramen production was the one thing that was unclear to me in the video – how the noodles end up woven together. It seemed to happen in the same step in which the noodles were cut from a long sheet of dough, but the actual mechanism for doing it wasn’t obvious.
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Posted by Popkin.
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This! How can they not explain this? We deserve to know.
But maybe I’m just spoiled because I’ve seen too many films by Armin Maiwald.
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If you really want some factory ‘porn’ try a VPN (as needed) and iPlayer - Inside the Factory with the somewhat annoying but enthusiastic as a puppy Greg Wallace has hours of it. Mostly food factories but by no means exclusively those.
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Nice.
Here‘s a selection of Armin Maiwald‘s and his team‘s films about production. These cover around 50 years, so quality will vary a bit. German only, I‘m afraid, no idea if you need a VPN outside Germany.
BTW: I love how they open the machines so that you can see what happens inside (like in this video or even explain how the tools for making the thing are made, and how the thing that is produced actually works (like in the case of this bike pump
Most of that is not on Youtube, no idea why, but they rotate the selection on the web page from time to time. My guess is in total they produced at least 800-1000 videos like this, they‘ve been showing one per week in their weekly program for more than 50 years.
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They have their own special dish.
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I don’t know if the finished noodles’ twirly shape aids in (or is an artifact of?) their manufacture, but the shape does result in great mouth-feel as they’re consumed.
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This NY Times informal obituary for the creator of instant ramen is one of the finer things I’ve read in the Times. (Probably behind a paywall but readable incognito. It’s short and wonderful.)
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