Sea Tangle - Kelp Noodles - 12 lb

These noodles don’t really have a flavour so are perfect in any dish you want some texture without having to worry about duelling banjos. Was definitely not expecting them to have a crunch! I am used to Konjac noodles, so this was a nice change. Made Pho and the noodles take up a nice portion of the bowl and can hold up toppings nicely. Love!

The noodles is amazing. I love it. I recommended it

I really wanted to like these... but I couldn’t. The first problem - the cost is prohibitive. The bag that arrived was surprisingly small. The weight came from the water in which it’s packaged. Second. I tried some straight out of the bag. It was akin to chewing on a tasteless crunchy rubber band. A rather strange texture combination and not a pleasing one. I tried adding some to a salad to see if mixed with a bit of greens and acid and fat it would miraculously become palatable. It didn’t. I tried to cook it - in order to soften it up... after boiling it for 15 minutes it still had the same rubber band texture but was a little less crunchy. Three minutes out of the water I added a little sauce and was quite pleased with myself... until I bit into my dinner, the kelp had cooled down a bit and was crunchy and rubber again. I’m beyond disappointed in this product. Perhaps it is ignorance and this is how folks enjoy it. It would be great for weight loss since a few “noodles” take 5 minutes to chew through.

After being on a diet all summer I was really missing noodles and found these by looking up low-calorie alternatives. They come in a shelf-stable bag. There are instructions about how to prepare the noodles, where you separate them in cold water with lemon juice and baking soda, then rinse them. Then they are ready to warm up and eat. This adds a step to cooking and some thinking ahead but only takes a couple minutes and isn’t difficult in itself. The noodles have effectively no flavor. They are glassy and really don’t soak up any sauce. At the same time, they don’t soak up water either, so won’t become mushy even if they sit in water for days. This bag is enough for two big servings. What constitutes a serving is really just a matter of how much physical volume you want to eat, because the noodles are so low calorie, eating one noodle or the whole bag is a trivial difference. These are WAY better than nothing. That might sound like faint praise but it isn’t. They are also way better than zucchini noodles. They’re more expensive and not as tasty as rice or wheat noodles. These are great if every calorie matters and you want that noodle component in a dish.

I ordered one pack and it was great. Made a huge steak and mushroom stir fry with the noodles. The noodles were perfect. The meal (as pictured) looked and tasted like a wildly unhealthy yet satisfying fried noodle dish, but it was actually super healthy! For Asian cooking, kelp noodles blow konjac out of the water.