<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0ca1d93f-7699-40b2-9bbb-7dd0b2458a36/78906FBF-6BC7-4391-8FAB-5E057023C67A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ask.metafilter.com/16748/pad-thai-yum-yum" href="http://ask.metafilter.com/16748/pad-thai-yum-yum" style="font-size: 11px;">ask.metafilter.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ask.metafilter.com/16748/pad-thai-yum-yum"><DIV>Cook's Illustrated offers a great method of cooking the noodles, which helps minimize noodle stickiness:</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ask.metafilter.com/16748/pad-thai-yum-yum">Soak the noodle in a large bowl filled with hot water until they are about 75% softened, but still quite al-dente. They suggest using only the hottest water you can get from your tap, not boiling water, but I find half boiling water, half hot tap water works best. Once they reach the softened-but-still-crunchy stage, drain the noodles and run cold water over them. Add the drained noodles to your stir-fry<BR /><DIV> at the end of cooking - they will take a minute or two to finish cooking, and will remain nicely seperated.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ask.metafilter.com/16748/pad-thai-yum-yum">I find that this method works much better than boiling the rice noodles, which always results in a soggy clump.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ask.metafilter.com/16748/pad-thai-yum-yum"><SPAN class="smallcopy">posted by <A href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/3245">skwm</A> at <A href="http://ask.metafilter.com/16748/pad-thai-yum-yum#282779">9:03 AM</A> on March 25, 2005 <SPAN id="fav4282779">[<SPAN id="favcnt4282779"></SPAN><A title="Save this comment as a favorite" id="plusminus4282779" href="http://www.metafilter.com/javascript-required.mefi">+</A>]<SPAN id="favmsg4282779"></SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN id="flag4282779">[<A class="flag" title="Flag this post" href="http://www.metafilter.com/javascript-required.mefi">!</A>]</SPAN> </SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/78906FBF-6BC7-4391-8FAB-5E057023C67A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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