/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10478904
are you a doctor? or just a mom?

>tfw they're fucking terrible for your health
It's just noodles.

>>10478904
They're not really terrible, just completely and utterly void of any micronutrients, fiber, or protein.

>>10478916
>>10478913
Aren't they really high in sodium though?

>>10478919
so don't use all the salty ass flavor packet

>>10478919
Sure. But that's not a problem unless you have some underlying medical problem and your doc told you to go low-sodium.

>>10478919
It has fairly high sodium one package contains about half of the max recommended daily amount. If you add vegetables and protein in form of eggs it should be fine.

>>10478904
I know the feel. Momoduku Ando is a saint because this invention

>>10478904
You fucking brainlet, just cook actual ramen. It may take a while but it's well worth it.

In particular, I'd recommend Tonkotsu.

>>10479089
>it may take a while
>12 hours of broth brewing later

>>10479172
You say that now, but that shit cooks up a shit ton of broth, you'll have enough for a couple days worth if done right.

>>10479089
>but it’s worth it
It’s really not worth it.

>>10478916
>>10478927
my aunt was an er doctor and semi occasionally would treat a neet who only eats instant noodles
the diagnoses was always scurvy

>>10478919
don't drink the soup

>>10479185
Lol, where? There hasn't been a case of scurvy reported in the US since the Great Depression.

>>10479185
dumbass LARPing nigger

>>10479089
The point of INSTANT Ramen is being fast

>>10479269
>fast
>not instant

>>10479269
Yeah, but it's at the expense of quality and taste.

>>10479089
>try out ~authentic~ 5 stars at yelp $15 Ramen
>the broth tasted almost the same as Ramen from the packet
>the noodles were a bit chewier and thicker
>only the toppings really made a difference and you could add them to your instant Ramen by yourself

>>10479312
Now you understand that Yelp reviews are worthless.

Even a casual home cook can easily make ramen stock that blows away the packets.

>>10479185
Bullshit. Even if you just eat a ketchup packet from McDonalds once you get enough vitamin C to avoid scurvy for a pretty long time.
If scurvy were actually that easy to get half of the population posting on 4chan would have it because shit diets are not at all uncommon.

>>10478916
^This, it's not what ramen noodles has that's bad for you, it's what it doesn't have. They're like the prototypical "empty calories" food.

>>10479343
How many people do you think eat ONLY instant ramen and nothing else?

>>10479364
When did I say anything about eating only ramen noodles? I just said they're empty calories?

>>10479375
The "empty calorie" comment is irrelevant unless someone is eating nothing but empty calories.

>>10479382
No it isn't.
If 25% of your diet is empty calories you're getting less nutrition than if 0% of your diet were empty calories.
I'm not sure how you're able to believe in this weird all or nothing take on the subject since it's obviously wrong.

>>10479382
Autism

>>10479382
Also now that I think about it you're wrong in a second distinct way because you're assuming ramen noodles are the only kind of empty calorie food by responding as though calling it empty calories must mean I'm saying you're only eating ramen noodles.

just buy normal noodles, and for the broth mix soy sauce with bouillon or whatever
tastes just the same

>>10479089
>retarded no-life weeb has 12 hours to properly prep shit needed to make a few servings of ramen
kill yourself

>>10478904
Best brand? I've been going with Mr Noodles
Apparently the cup ramen is good

>>10479245
northwestern canada
>>10479338
dumb fucker ONLY ate mr noodles

>>10479406
I did it over the weekend and fed my family, with leftovers that lasted even longer, go fuck yourself.

Don't be a fag. Depends how you use them. If you eat 6 packs a day and suck down a 2L of soda err'day then yeah it's bad. If you bother to find out how many uses they have then you'd change your mind. Fuck it just get it inya fatty.

>>10479406
Ramen takes very little hands-on time. The stock can simmer while you're doing more important things. If you want to get really hands-off then use a slow cooker.

Make a big batch of stock, portion it up and freeze. Then when you want ramen you can just grab a block of stock out of the freezer. I'm sure even your busy schedule has time for that.

And lets face reality: even if you aren't making ramen there's not much that's higher priority than cooking yourself a quality meal.

>>10479452
Fucking this, besides that, most people who fit the "weeb" definition don't want to put in the effort to cook real ramen, they stick with cup noodles and watch their cute girl shows or whatever.

This is really the only tasty instant Ramen (that they sell here) in my opinion. All those chicken, beef, pork, shrimp flavored Ramen I tried just have this disgusting unnatural taste to them. They taste like water with artificial flavoring added to them. At least this almost tastes like something freshly made. You can actually taste some individual flavors instead of just salt and the heat is not overwhelming like with all those SPICY RAMEN CHALLENGE Ramen.

>>10479470
It's a big shame though that they are always so damn stingy with the toppings. Would it be too much to ask to add more? Frozen pizzas are able to put a decent amount of vegetable and meat on them so why not instant Ramen?

tfw

>>10479474
You're buying the wrong brands.
Some of them even come with a pouch of meat.

>>10479489
Which? They are probably Japan only.

>>10479185
To be fair there isn't any one magic test that can tell you someone definitely has "scurvy." Even if you have low vitamin C levels currently that doesn't mean you had low levels long enough to cause scurvy, it just means right at that moment your vitamin C levels are low. The closest thing to "knowing" someone has scurvy is just identifying symptoms and noting the symptoms go away after nutrition is restored, but there are a lot of potential causes for symptoms like that and a lot of problems that get better when proper nutrition is restored.
So when someone says a given person had scurvy, it's not the same as if they confirmed you have hepatitis. It's just an opinion, and if that sort of opinion is given in the case of a modern developed patient there's some hints of a "young people today aren't eating right" bias going on. I would treat that sort of diagnosis as similar to the multiple personality (dissociative identity disorder) diagnoses sometimes given out today, where it's technically a real diagnosis but also probably says more about the doctor making the diagnosis than anything else.

>>10479517
>>Japan only
You have the internet. You can order anything from anywhere.

It's been years since I bought any, but I got mine from an Asian market in Houston TX. I think the brand was "Vifon". It said "retort pouch" on the package; that's the industry term for the pouch containing the meat (kind of like how Starkist tuna comes in a pouch).

If you eat nothing but meat, eggs, and salt, and drink only water for a week, you'll be cured of your carbohydrate addiction. This shit isn't even food.

>>10478919
Just drink a dickload of water and you'll be fine. You should be drinking a gallon a day anyway.

>>10479577
>how to get CHF

>>10478904
If you can stand the accent, this guy has everything you need

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLURsDaOr8hWXGHjXPa3nTFZnbqJcAfs4N>>10478904

>>10479466
the last recorded case of scurvy was this Australian dude who just ate beer and cheeseburgers all day and literally nothing else

>>10481890
Why're you telling me this? I'm not the scurvy guy.

>>10478904
Aren't they supposed to just be a basis? That's how I generally use them at least. Sure you can eat them plain, but that's just like eating white bread dipped in flavored salt water. Favorite ones are from indomie. I tried those more expensive meme ones, both regular and black, and they were fine, but not really worth the extra money.
Just throw some spring onions and/or mushrooms, or eggs in there. It's easy to make it a bit more nutritious and tasty at the same time.

>>10481890

But beets have vitamiin c.

>high in sodium
>oh no so unhealthy
There's barely anything in these, it's just some empty carb calories
You'd need to really replace your entire diet with this stuff to be at any risk. Even then, can you imagine how awful it must be to eat like 1000kcal worth of instant ramen?

>>10479389
>>10479396
>If 25% of your diet is empty calories you're getting less nutrition than if 0% of your diet were empty calories.

Obviously. But chances are that remaining 75% of your diet is plenty good enough to fulfill one's dietary needs.

Of course if the entirety or majority of your diet is "empty" then you'll have problems. But that's so rare it's not much of a concern.

As a metaphor: do you insist that every second of your time is 100% productive? Or do you balance your time between productive things and recreation?

>>10479364
I knew some shitneets who basically lived on instant ramen

>>10482961
>I knew
did they died anon?
is that what awaits us?

>>10482940
>But chances are that remaining 75% of your diet is plenty good enough to fulfill one's dietary needs.
No, that's retarded. If someone's already eating ramen noodles as part of their diet it would be a bad assumption to make that they get good nutrition from other meals. And this is all an inane tangent anyway because any non-autist would understand it's completely normal and acceptable to point out a given food is empty calories.
Whether someone is eating non-empty calories elsewhere is something each person can figure out for themselves. Nobody's trying to holistically optimize your entire diet for you just because it's correctly pointed out that ramen noodles are empty calories.
Your work analogy is also retarded because again nobody cares about your entire ongoing daily nutritional profile in the first place. Nobody said you aren't allowed to ever eat empty calories. Stop trying to make bizarre global extrapolations from what should be very straightforward comments about the lack of nutrition in a particular food item.

>>10483549
>Nobody said you aren't allowed to ever eat empty calories.

Then what's the point of mentioning that instant ramen is empty calories? The statement is completely inane and useless unless you are trying to imply they should be avoided.

When someone talks about their favorite sport, movie, or tv show do you feel compelled to tell them that watching it is unproductive?

>>10478904
>not even better brands like Top Ramen, Nissin Demae, or Sapporo Ichiban

end yourself

>>10483622
>Then what's the point of mentioning that instant ramen is empty calories?
TO POINT OUT THAT THEY'RE EMPTY CALORIES. THAT IS THE POINT YOU FUCKING AUTIST. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WHETHER THEY WERE BAD FOR YOU AND THE ANSWER IS "NO, EXCEPT THAT THEY'RE EMPTY CALORIES."

>>10483622
>When someone talks about their favorite sport, movie, or tv show do you feel compelled to tell them that watching it is unproductive?
Not a valid analogy. The health topic was explicitly brought up in the first post of the thread, not shoehorned in by someone else after the fact like in your retarded productivity example.

>>10483624
Maruchuan's way better than Top Ramen.
If someone gave me a bunch of Top Ramen as a gift I would wait for them to leave and then I'd throw it in the garbage.