Friday, January 30, 2009

cooking instant noodles

WRONG way of cooking instant noodles!

Normally, we cook instant noodles by putting the noodles into a pot with water and throw the condiment powder then let it cook for 3 mins.

Boiling the ingredients of the condiment powder, which is heavily laden with MSG (monosodium glutamate or "vetsin") changes the molecular structures of the MSG causing it to be toxic.

Instant noodles are normally coated with wax to prevent it from sticking to each other. Once consumed, it will take around 4 to 5 days for the body to excrete the wax after you have eaten the instant noodles.


CORRECT method should be to cook the noodles this way:

1. Boil the noodles in a pot with water.

2. Once the noodles is cooked, take out the noodles, and throw away the water which contains wax.

3. Boil another pot of water till boiling and put the noodles into the hot boiling water and then shut the fire.

4. Only at this stage when the fire is off, and while the water is very hot, should you put the condiment powder into the water, to make the noodle soup.

5. However, if you need dry noodles, take out the noodles and add the ingredient with the powder and toss it to get dry noodles.