As an Arctic blast sent temperatures plummeting into the negative double digits this past weekend, several (very bored) Midwesterners found a new way to pass the time beyond huddling together for warmth — freezing bowls of ramen in mid-air.
A long-running, yet newly-viral tradition across colder regions, the rules of the “ramen challenge” are simple: Prepare a bowl of instant ramen, swirl several noodles around a fork, prop the fork on an adjacent object, set the entire contraption out in negative 20-ish degree weather, and boom, you got yourself a gravity-defying soup.
“It’s -6 here in Indiana,” wrote Arielle Schmitt, who decided to hop on the trend after seeing several other iterations spread amid the cold snap. “I have to do something to stay entertained.”
Yet Schmitt, who also recorded her contraption thawing back to its physics-abiding state, was far from alone in hopping on the trend. Enter Jodi Lytle, a Michigan-based TikToker who likened the floating noodles to a work of art.
“It’s art, it’s frozen ramen!” she exclaimed after discovering her fork hovering over the bowl via several lines of chilled noodles. “We did it in the Frozen land of Michigan!”
The ramen challenge — because yeeting pots of boiling water into the air is SO 2014.
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