Husband's Soba Noodle Page

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Soba(buck-wheat) noodle  

My husband started making soba-noodle at home in the year 2010, right after he became 60 years old when he retired from his job.   In this page, I want to introduce you how he does it as his HOBBY at home .  Hope the pictures will give you some ideas about noodle making.

For the starters, these pages will tell you about Soba-noodle and buckwheat. I will skip long explanation of what soba-noodle is. Soba has a longer history than rice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soba,    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwheat

We have a custom eating it as year-crossing noodles 「年越し蕎麦」.  For most Japanese families, having this noodle with family member quietly at home means to greet the happy next year. There are several theories for how this custum started like the link explains, but the most popular one would be "wishing to have a thin long happy life"    year-crossing noodles (link)

                                                                                                                               

           Flower of Backwheat                                                                                                   Seed of  Backwheat 

He made his hobby room to fillful his dream

His home made buckwheat-noodle and plate

How noodle is made;

using small milling machine

                                                         

To make flour, reapt this work several times

                                                         

kneading the dough

making the dough square

cutting board is set

He makes enough Soba for 6 person in 1 setting. first one 5 more to go

Now, just a little anecdote how he started to making Soba-noodle

A couple years before he retired, he met a man who used to live close each other when young. He is working as a sort of an adviser for the person who wants to open soba restaurant. It was when we tasted his soba a couple years before retirement that my husband wanted to make it by himself. He lives an hour away from our house and he had visited him to learn how to do for a while. I wonder if we can call him "soba-master" in English, 「蕎麦の師匠. そばのししょう. sobano shisho」in Japanese.
Thanks to him, my husband had a chance to be able to have this wonderful hobby of his.

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