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This is what my wife told me today. She wanted to cook some udon and wanted to know how. I saw "約1l", "湯の中へバラバラと", and "約10分", so I said with confidence: "Take 1 liter of water to boil per 1 bunch of udon, separate strands and throw it in there, then boil for 10 minutes. Then pour cold water on it."

But it wasn't all. A few minutes later, she asks, "Do I need to drain on a sieve or do I drown them in cold water in a pan?" Suddenly, it's an emergency. That stuff is already boiling, and all I see is: "ゆで上がりをザルに取り冷水で水洗いをして blah blah blah ください". There is no katakana "zaru" in a dictionary. There's no "torireisui" either! Well, reisui is cold water, so that makes sense. But I already know that cold water is used to anti-scald pasta, so it's not helping! The only thing that saved me is that IMI has a very broad search, and apparently "zaru" can also be "笊", which means a strainer. What a relief! Quickly I report that we throw udon on sieve first and all is good.

UPDATE: Brickmuppet comments: "Important life lessons we didn't know we needed!" See, I can do the lifestyle banality with the best of them!

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