I saw some buldak cheese version on sale so I got some and after 5 bites I’ve sweat the equivalent to half an olympic sized pool and starting to see aliens. Is there something genetically different with people who enjoy this?
Nong Shim Spicy flavor are our ramen and I love some Very Hot sauce, sure. Do I want everything to be spicy? No.
When we get takeout Indian food, I ask for Channa Masala as spicy as they’d make it for their grandma, like ever so very spicy, more than anyone else in my house enjoys. Everything else I ask for mild (unless it’s that Vindaloo Chicken, that ought not be mild) and enjoy it all.
Most food I would say I do not make so spicy, maybe 10% of what I cook, but, that 10% I have to make not as spicy as I want so that everyone else can enjoy.
Most “hot” wings mean nothing to me
But I don’t drown things in hot sauce since I like flavor AND heat so I carry around a few really good bottles of Ghost pepper/reaper hot sauce since there is a really nice smoky flavor with it.
Its a nice way to elevate cheap food and be viewed as a demi god by the weak and like a small child by the south east Asians.
I know my white people ghost pepper sauce is nothing compared to what Raj’s baby sister has for breakfast.
I eat them with raspberry jam and soy sauce.
Like anything you build up tolerance. Buldak barely registers.
I don’t usually get concerned about the heat unless I’m at a Thai place and I’ve asked for Thai hot.
But I’m not a masochist. I prefer my heat to have flavor.
I dunno’, good food has good flavor, even if it will make you fear God. Some of the best tasting curry I’ve ever had was also the spiciest thing I’ve ever eaten to date.
Don’t disagree, but I was referring to the boutique hot sauce stuff that can run into the millions of scovilles.
Pure pain with no upside.
Hmmm, I wonder. I’ve had ghost pepper cheese, and carolina reaper cheese, ghost pepper salsa, hotsauce, and plenty of hot sauces in the millions.
Many of them had unique flavors that stemmed from the source pepper. Ghost peppers and reapers are pretty fruity and ‘light’ in flavor. It takes a pretty careful selection of additions to make salsa or pico with them taste ‘normal’ and not like they have fruity-sweet overtone. Plenty of the multi-million hot sauces also had flavor, but a disappointing many had a poor distillate taste. Like you were getting a fraction of a real flavor plus a slap in the face with the heat. Useless unless the point is adding a dab of pain.
Even alcohol distilled too far becomes a mess of a product that’s nigh impossible to dress up without diluting back down to some degree.
I dipped a toothpick into Da Bomb hot sauce once and it was pure pain, no flavour came through at all
Yeah that stuff is made in a lab and tastes awful on it’s own. It’s the sort of thing you add a couple drops to a whole pot of food when you want to up the heat without changing the flavor.
I got the Buldak 2X Spicy Ramen and sat down and watched a hot ramen eating challenge and watched all of those people tap out on the challenge and cry and beg for milk and everything.
It made me really jealous and want to try whatever ramen they were eating because the ramen I was eating was spicy enough just to hurt a little bit, but not so bad that I was tapping out begging for milk.
At the end of the video they revealed that the ramen that they were tapping out on was the Buldak 2X Spicy Ramen that I was eating while I watched them.
I love the 2X. Good flavor and it’s hot enough to get me sweating. Bonus points for sliced jalapeno for some added freshness.
It’s like people who drink. Your body develops a tolerance to spice and the capsaicin response gradually eases over time. Most people who enjoy spicy food are selective about the types of food they prefer to be spicy. It’s still about the flavour in the end and the heat just enhances that.
The sweating and initial pain was nothing compared to the burning asshole I’ve had for the last 12 hours
Burns In, Burns Out
Next time it’ll only be 8hrs, just gotta stick with it.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
I only started eating spicy food regularly maybe 10 years ago (starting with spicy noodles, actually), and at first it was a harrowing experience. Now, I’m much more tolerant to it and things that were at first inedible don’t taste particularly hot at all anymore. My wife got me a variety of dried chili flakes for Christmas which include Trinidad scorpion and Carolina reaper and they’re certainly hot, but tolerable. I think they’d have about killed me 5-10 years ago.
We have a local wings place that has a wing sauce they simply call ‘Diablo’, and every time I order it I’m sitting here crying while I eat them thinking, “Why do I keep doing this to myself?”, but after they’re gone I just want more. It’s weirdly addictive.
I am Mexican and I eat a lot of spicy food, but I just can’t finish a buldak. I don’t like them, I think they’re just regular noodles that make up for their lack of flavour by bombarding your mouth with hot spice.
I actually did enjoy the chicken flavour but I could have done with 1 quarter of the spice
They say people who enjoy spicy food have fewer taste buds. My friends and family always mock me because I can’t tell if something is spicy or not. I think it’s completely mild and they’re gagging and crying from the heat. It takes a lot more for me to be able to detect the spiciness, I’m guessing we just have weaker/less taste buds.
Spiciness isn’t related to taste buds. Related; you don’t have taste buds on your eyes or up your butt, but I’ll bet you can feel pepper oil there! So don’t worry, you can still have plenty of ability to taste, and still have high heat tolerance.
you dont have “taste buds” as those are defined specifically… but you do have taste receptors in your anus.
It does explain the seemingly ESP I appear to have with knowing when a fart is a real stinker even before it’s come out… and not just based on how my guts are or are not churning.
My friends and family always mock me
they’re gagging and crying from the heat.
Take their wallets while they can’t resist and mock those weaklings right back.
This is the way
We get 3x and 5x variety here, can eat em, they just taste like like shit. Having said that I live spicy foods not for the burn but the amazing flavours you get from the more exotic chilies, chocolate bhuts are amazing! And some of the hotter habs are some great fruity quality to them! As for basic you sauces? I like the taste not no real sense of spice at all.
The first time I tried them I got the 2x because they were priced cheaper. I treated them more like an amusement park ride than a meal.
I love spicy food but I’m not the biggest fan of Buldak. The taste isn’t there. Though I have some of their black hot sauce around.
Hot sauces are a very diverse bag. I have a huge range of them. My favorites are all locals and moderately spicy, around habanero level. The ultra spicy sauces are useful for when you want to add spice without changing the flavor profile of a meal. My spice tolerance is high but nothing crazy.
Yeah I also love spicy food, from “moderate spicy” to “crazy spicy”. My husband surprised me with the Buldak Ramen that went viral for a second for being banned in Finland or Denmark or whatever. I ate all four of the packs after a time, but never repurchased.
But I like your comment because you highlight how hot sauces are a mixed bag. My all time favorite hot sauces are usually habanero based, despite that not being the world’s hottest pepper. They’re just like…the perfect general kick of spice.
I also tend to prefer certain hot sauces for certain things. Nando’s Extra Hot is fucking GOAT for all fried chicken things. Fast food nuggets/tenders, fried chicken breasts/wings, homemade fried chicken, there just isn’t a better sauce. I go through the large bottles easy. It just has that spicy tang that elevates chicken specifically, which makes sense because that’s what Nando’s is known for.
But then my favorite for topping pizza, or quesadillas, or mac and cheese or anything “cheesy” is Mad Dog 57. I find it hot to the point of discomfort unless the dairy is there to mitigate some of the heat. Its fire with anything cheese though.
But a good habanero spread on a sandwich, or a habanero based sauce drizzled over fries or breakfast tacos or eggs or like…pretty much anything? Chef’s Kiss Fucking perfection.
I really don’t think original buldak noodles are very spicy at all. Like, I can feel it, but it isn’t what I would consider to be very spicy. They also don’t taste good, though. Like 3/10 spiciness.
Typical buffalo sauce or name brands like tabasco, cholula, etc. are not noticeably spicy to me.like 0/10 spiciness.
I have a decent spice tolerance, but I also don’t enjoy eating super spicy things “just because”. I want my food to actually taste good. Being able to eat spicy food lets me taste more flavor in hot peppers, but there’s zero point in eating really spicy stuff just to prove you can, imo.
Yeah you definitely can build a tolerance. I used to think Buldak was pretty spicy (as in so spicy it’s affecting my enjoyment) the first time having it. Now it’s whatever.
Hot cheetos tastes like cardboard to me. I’ve started preferring regular cheetos over hot cheetos because at least it has flavor. That should probably answer your question.
I don’t dump hot sauce on everything, that’s like asking if someone with a sweet tooth dumps sugar onto everything. Also, there are different types of hot sauce that have different levels of spice. You don’t need to drown food in hot sauce, you just need to buy a spicier hot sauce and continue adding the same amount of hot sauce.
Interesting thing to note, your sense of taste and your physiological response to spice are two different things. There are (many) times where I eat something “spicy,” and I’ll sweat. But I don’t taste the spice.
