Laver (Porphyra Tenera) 64 %, Canola Oil 34 %, Sesame Oil, Refined Salt (Solar Salt, Roasted Salt)
Sea Friend Roasted Seaweed 8-Pack $3.80 (Was $5.50) @ Woolworths
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ilove on 12/01/2025 - 16:06 woolworths.com.au (598 clicks)
Last edited 13/01/2025 - 11:11 by 2 other users
Last edited 13/01/2025 - 11:11 by 2 other users
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myconny or keabeath?
Rapeseed oil at that! 🤢
industrial rapeseed or culinary canola ?
AFAIK canola is a type of rapeseed - fields of rape apparently not seen as attractive marketing, thus the more recently invented alternative name of 'canola'
'Canola was originally a trademark of the Rapeseed Association of Canada, and the name is a combination of "can" from Canada and "ola" from "oil". Today, canola is a generic term for edible varieties of rapeseed oil in North America and Australasia'
Exactly. It was rebranded when synthetic oils were created, and Canadians found themselves out of a market. So they repackaged their oily business as food. And health food at that! Literal snake oil salesmen!! (Exactly like the Rockefeller's started, but selling petrol as cure all ointment instead.)
There are better options, though.
Last time bought a Roasted Seaweed Pack from Woolies on special - returned as oil had gone rancid. Was within BBD. Smelt & tasted terrible!
Fishy?
If you've smelt rancid oil, you'd recognise the horrible smell when opening the pack! Very unhealthy to consume!
Try an Asian grocery store. Korean stores near me regularly have packs on sale. Various seasonings.
Best eaten by few weeks after purchase, as the oil will go rancid if left too long.
Love roasted Laver.How much on sale btw?
Depends on store & variety of laver. Was in local Haromart today, but didn't buy.
Thanks
The toasted one tastes best
Though i think the wet one was healthier
Is that correct?
@ATTS: Don't know. I just love eating them…
Buying on discount price & personal experience with the particular product.Most snack foods with this high oil content can't be considered healthy.
But a tasty addition to salads.HaromartHanaromart - are major Korean stores near me. (My spell checker & I have a lot of problems with that name.)@INFIDEL: Love those shops. Always go to one at Westfield Carindale - throw a couple of 500ml korean IPA's 3.50 each and have some sushis at Sushi Hub with this beer after…. Hanaromart is not the cheapest but always good to visit
@Michael1983: That's my local. There this afternoon!!
Found staff (& customers) good for advice on what to cook. Grabbed some spicy marinated pork Bulgogi for a quick dinner ($10.90 600g).
Bought so many cartons of Spicy Bibim Men Noodles 20 x 130g Packs $19.99 in 2023 - staff called me "Mr Cold Noodles"😄
Noticed 5 packs on special about $6.90 - so will ask the carton price🍜Been a while since I've tried a korean IPA. Good price. Must try🍺
Pity Makgeolli is so expensive, so just walk past the alcohol fridge.
(Drank last of 120 cans of Japan brewed Asahi 500ml last week.)
After harvesting the seadweed, cooking them and then eat them, it's nice to still able to be considered their friend.
You can just buy dried ones and make your own
Air fryer?
Frypan
And then
Method 1: brush it with sesame oil. And then sprinkle salt on it.
Method 2: put the salt into sesame oil first and then brush with it.You can use an airfryer, that's what we do. Faster and less messy (and we don't use oil).
- Cut up seaweed with scissors
- Completely fill up the air fryer with the seaweed standing up/sideways (perpendicular to the air fryer floor)
- Lay a pair of metal chopsticks (crossed?) on top of the seaweed to keep in place
- Airfry and that's it (not sure for how long though since I'm not the one who makes it… 2-3 minutes?)
After airfried, divide up the seaweed and wrap in glad wrap to keep it crispy until you're ready to eat.
If you want to apply oil, probably best to do so before cutting with scissors.
The way we used before we got an airfryer was the separate grill that we had below our oven. Apply oil, grill on one side, turn over and grill the other side, repeat… Took ages.
Well if any WA's like this, spud shed sells the 24 packs for $7.99
that link says 'out of stock' but also shows only 51.5% seaweed compared to this thread deal of 64% so maybe 12.5% 'wasabi powder' ???
yesterday at a sushi lunch I got burned with fake wasabi in the small green squeeze pack - actually horseradish - that was so nasty it burned my mouth even after I added way too much soy sauce - so I'm wondering if the 'wasabi powder' added to this pack is 'real' wasabi or just horseradish …
I'd like to know that, too. Maybe someone who can read Korean could tell us?
I've found one brand of the single serve wasabi packs has actual wasabi as well as horseradish. The others are just horseradish and green. I buy tubes of proper wasabi from the asian grocer now.
Google Lens can.
@wisdomtooth: Cool, thanks! I love living in the future. I don't have Google lens on my archaic device though.
On the ww website, you can click on "Check our other stores" under the add to cart or out of stock. Might find some nearby.
I love this Korean crispy seaweed as a snack food and was surprised to find out that Koreans do not eat it as a snack like I do, but add like one sheet to sit on the top side of their soup like decoration for ramen or whatever they call their version
anyhoo - I used to look for a price around 35c per single pack - this deal looks like around 50c per single small pack - but good enough I'll bite
and if it smells bad, WOW returns policy should cover it I guess
Koreans don't add this kind of seaweed to their soup, that's A Japanese way (they use thicker and sweeter seaweed)
Try it with white rice - wrap a tablespoon of steamed white rice with a sheet of this seaweed laver.
That's how you eat this and the best way to enjoy itLaver is often sprinkled onto ddeokguk, sujebi, kalguksu, etc. Although I personally don't like wet laver.
Wow didn't realise a third of this is just oil 😮