/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13008652
Because oil is yummy

>>13008652
Because they cared enough about the taste to go through the trouble of putting all the lipophilic flavor compounds dissolved into the oil instead of in the dry soup base where they may not fully bloom dissolved in water.

Doesn't indomie have oil in it

why is Mark/Ken so cool bros?

>>13008652
Oil helps carry the flavor. Oil=More taste. The yummiest ones use sesame oil.

>>13008751
stfu science bitch

>favorite ramen is usually $3
>99 cent store has it for $1.50

>>13009617
>Oil helps carry the flavor. Oil=More taste
>>13008741
>Because oil is yummy
^Not these.
>>13008751
>Because they cared enough
^This
It doesn't really matter much for flavor (you can verify this by heating some up without the oil added and noting it tastes exactly the same to any non-autistic tongue).
It's an indicator of quality because it's an extra step they didn't have to take but did anyway. In fact it's because of how *little* that oil matters that this is a good indicator of quality since they took a lot of extra effort just to get the slightest bit of customer experience improvement.
It's analogous to peacock feathers with natural selection. Peacock feathers aren't very useful, and it's in fact *because* of the utility lack that they ended up selected for where having a mostly useless display of colorful feathers became an indicator of superior fitness by way of needing to be better off to afford carrying around an added burden like that just to show off.

>>13010439
retard alert. have you never cooked with sesame oil or got black garlic oil in real ramen?

>>13011156
Autism alert.
You're imagining more of a difference than there is in reality because you're suggestible.

Why the fuck you Amerifats call every single noodle Ramen?

>>13011341
huh, i guess you're right

>>13011476
I don't know, it's a mystery.
Unless, maybe that's exactly what they put on the package label, dipshit.

>>13009436
chow yun fat is a pretty cool guy in general

>>13011341
lmao get a trip so I can filter you

>>13011341
t. ramen consumption consists of gutter shit and maruchan
literally add 1/2 tsp of sesame oil to any dish. if you can't taste the difference your tastebuds are fucked

>>13012349
>t. ramen consumption consists of gutter shit and maruchan
Nah, I get decent high end instant noodles from amazon as a matter of fact (laksa la mian, ottogi cheese ramen, and indomie mi goreng mostly-- and yes, I know indomie is relatively common and plebbish, but it's one of the oil having ones and it's definitely not maruchan tier). I'm just not pretending the oil makes anywhere near as much of a flavor difference as you're imagining. I would absolutely not bet large amounts of money on being able to reliably pass a taste test to discriminate between noodles with oil and noodles without oil.
Gun to your mom's head, would you bet on her life you could consistently nail ten taste tests where you have to say whether or not there was an oil sachet added? Assuming here you don't hate your mom, and she isn't already dead, and you can take those ten taste tests one day at a time in isolation so your palate doesn't get screwed up by previous bowls eaten. I think that's bullshit if you're going to say yes.

>>13012455
>people buy food and shit from amazon
people do this?

>>13012455
actual autism. garlic oil and sesame oil is as much of a seasoning as paprika, oyster sauce, etc etc. i dont know where you got the impression that I think that it's some heavenly nectar of the gods that makes something taste 5000000x better and worlds different. it's literally just oil imbued with objectively flavorful foods. if you say you cant taste the difference between indomie mie goreng with and without the oil then you are braindead, tastedead and just objectively wrong and there's nothing more for me to say to you.

>>13012472
Non-perishable, yeah.
Where else are you going to get imports that aren't at the brick and mortar stores around you?

>>13011503
So one brand puts Ramen on the packet so now it's just a collective term?

>>13012510
You can't *reliably* taste the difference (you might guess right accidentally if you did a few taste tests). It's not like this is similar to leaving out the flavor packet, or the soy sauce, or the chili sauce. It's not even like adding flavor of its own is what it's there for in the first place. You know that's not its purpose, right? You're the one with autism here friend.

>>13012540
They sell 4 billion packs of noodles a year. If one of the largest name brands for a product uses terminology, then yes you dense faggot, that makes it a "collective term."

>>13009703
Holy shit go back now.

>>13012555
cringe

>>13010377
>99 cent store
>has it for $1.50
>99 cent store
>$1.50
>99 cent
>$1.50

>>13012583
>FaT iS fLaVoR

>>13011476
Because your mom fucks black dudes

>>13008652
It's part of what makes them yummy.

>>13008652
do americans really call instant noodles ramen?
fucking disgusting, that would be like me calling a tomato sandwich a 'pizza'

>>13012563
Seething much? Calm down kid.

>>13012555
I bet you wouldn't be able to provide a scholarly citation for your claims. Everything you are saying is personal belief.

>>13012349
>adding 1/2 tsp of sesame oil to any dish

You're the one with fucked up tastebuds, that shit will easily ruin anything it touches.

>>13010439
>>13012455
>>13012555
>>13012605
Stop fucking trolling. Its neither insightful nor funny.