Japanese noodle cutter - GIF

[Scotsman Hosie]

I've watched this one, before. And for the life of me — I can't figure out what's going on. Unless my depth perception is being fooled, it looks like he's constructing a spiraling 'vertical fence' — of noodles? But how would they solidify, standing on edge?

[bruce.desertrat]

I think it's a trick of perspective; it's flat and I suspect this isn't dough but a batter coming out of holes in the bottom of the can like a funnel cake, and cooking on the flattop. it's large spirals of noodles or whatever they are.

[neilbourjaily]

It's marvelously holographic!

[Jon]

[Jon]

I looked around a bit after finding this. I've now watched enough grown men seesawing on a bamboo pole to conclude that this is probably real, and not a joke.

[Frank S]

Never knew noodle making had evolved into such strenuous work, my grand mother did it wrong all those years using only a rolling pin

[bruce.desertrat]

Look at the Alex the Cooking Guy/This Old Tony collaboration after Alex broke an allegedly 'industrial strength' pasta machine making ramen noodles. Chinese noodles, especially ones like these are significantly tougher than your Grandmas, because after working the dough like this they get stretched to about eleventy gazillion times their original length.

[Frank S]

I understand that but all that needing pounding stretching and everything else they do to them their noodles still taste like eating boiled rope. at least her's had a great taste to them and they all but melted in your mouth.
But then again I have never been nor ever will be a coinsure of any form of oriental cooking if it smell like last years dirty dish water while being prepared it is not going on my plate

[jimfols]

Another different way to prepare dough. On the eastern shore of Maryland there is the Maryland traditional beaten biscuit.
They beat air into the dough to make it rise.

[Jon]