Brilio.net - For some Indonesians, crackers are one of the complementary foods that must be on the dinner table. Apart from buying ready-made ones, quite a few people also choose to stock up on raw crackers to fry themselves. One of the most popular raw crackers is mi crackers.
As the name suggests, this type of cracker has a shape like a noodle which is then shaped into a round shape. Not directly fried in hot oil like crackers in general, this type of cracker must go through a special method before being fried.
One of the TikTok users @criedtofu shared his experience of cooking noodle crackers at home which ended up making him laugh. In his upload, he admitted that he received instructions from a cracker seller at the market where he was shopping to season his crackers first before frying them so that the results would be more delicious.
photo: TikTok/@criedtofu
The seller recommends soaking the crackers in water mixed with salt and garlic. Because he was not told how long it would take to soak the crackers, the account owner took the initiative to soak the crackers overnight.
Instead of the spices becoming more pervasive, the crackers actually changed shape. There are no longer hard crackers, the food actually resembles spaghetti because it has been soaked in water for too long.
" Because I'm very smart, I soaked the crackers overnight, then this morning the crackers were already spaghetti, " he wrote in the caption of the TikTok video @criedtofu, quoted by BrilioFood on Thursday (1/8).
photo: TikTok/@criedtofu
In his caption, the owner of the TikTok account @criedtofu admitted that he didn't know how to fry these noodle crackers properly. After investigating, the owner of this TikTok account also tried to dry the crackers in the sun, you know. However, apparently these efforts were not successful in making the crackers fall hard again.
" I tried drying it all day, Sis, but it didn't come back like it did at first ," he said in response to a comment from one netizen who asked him to dry the wet crackers.
photo: TikTok/@criedtofu
Uploaded on Monday (29/7), the video attracted attention and was watched hundreds of thousands of times. The comments column was also filled with various responses from netizens. Not a few people regret the results of crackers that have been soaked for too long.
" 15 minutes is also enough for soaking noodle crackers ," said TikTok @kimchinins.
How many hours do you have to rent? even though it only takes 10-15 minutes, soak it in salted water + garlic, it's great, add peanut sauce ," explained TikTok @Anggiii.
" You shouldn't soak it overnight KA but forever ," added TikTok @Devipuspita.
" Just give it Bolognese sauce ," wrote TikTok @Anggasan.
" His talent is not in cooking, maybe he would be more suited to just cooking water ," said TikTok @ RPG addict.