Sobagaki is a dish made from buckwheat-flour, and one characteristic of the sobagaki is that a ball of dough, not a noodle, is made by mixing buckwheat-flour with boiled water or heating a mixture of buckwheat-flour and water and then quickly stirring the mixture into gruel with tools such as chopsticks.
蕎麦がき（そばがき、蕎麦搔き）とは、蕎麦粉を使った料理で、麺（蕎麦切り）としてではなく、蕎麦粉に熱湯を加えるか、水を加えて加熱し、箸などですぐかき混ぜることで粘りを出して塊状とする点に特徴がある。