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?
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 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.
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 enjoy eating it with a bit more than half the pack of sauce. The full pack is more of an “experience” requiring smaller bites instead of chugging it down but I didn’t really enjoy it.
Either my Buldak has a different recipe then those around or people here are lying when they claim to chug the x2’s
Yeah, half pack is the way to go. Most of the liquid boiled down. Carbo, cheese, or regular.
Depending on the food, sure, hot sauce and/or spicy seasonings. For instance I use Slap Ya Mama Cajun, chipotle chili powder, and a Penzey’s spicy blend on my bacon and eggs on weekend mornings as a treat. I always opt for extra hot salsa and the hottest most delicious salsa I found unfortunately doesn’t seem to be sold anywhere around me anymore (Jardines Ghost Pepper Salsa for the curious). Buldak spicy noodles do pack a respectable punch, but it doesn’t hold a top spot in regards to hottest thing I’ve eaten.
That’d be those Paqui hot chips that get released every year. I can eat like, quarter sized pieces at a time but it’s not so much the spice on your tongue as much as it is that you can feel those fuckers pass through your entire body. Like you know exactly where it is in your digestive system the entire time because it’s a dull ache that moves very slowly.
I don’t eat buffalo wings because there’s not enough meat on them bones.
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.
I’m a big fan of spicy food, but I rarely use hot sauce and am not a fan of buffalo wings. For me I like foods that have chiles where the spice is part of the flavour that makes the dish taste good.
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.
One time I found a packet of Buldak half-spice flavour. They were the sweet spot for me, allowed me to use all of the flavour sauce packet, with half the spice level. They were the most delicious version of Buldak I’ve had. The next best one is the black bean flavour, because it is at least adding something interesting and good, unlike the awful cheese flavour and fake carbonara flavour Buldaks.
I love spicy food and I eat the buldak 2x maybe monthly… but my body doesnt. Buffalo wings don’t affect me at all but i can sweat from a jalapeño on the spicy side. Its not painful tho. I do drown my food in hot sauce. Tabasco isn’t spicy to me but anything with eggs gets it liberally. I will look like Ben stiller in along came Polly and be Happy as a clam
Buldak nuddles is hot, nomattet who you are. I usually eat the double spicy one. Yeah I am sweating, it IS burning, but it is also fucking delicious, and I can’t stop eating. It also gets to a point where I don’t know the difference between if the food is hot (warm) or if it’s just the spices. But I enjoy spicy food in general. But if someone tells you the Buldak spicy nuddles (especially the X2 ones) Aren’t hot, they are lying.
I do actually not find buffalo flavoured things (I don’t eat buffalo wings but I do buffalo cauliflower & tofu) spicy. And yeah I like to add hot sauce to foods that are not already spicy, but if they are already spicy I don’t add hot sauce.
I don’t think my spice tolerance is crazy tbh. I’ve definitely eaten things that were too spicy for me. I tried the Buldak 2× spicy and found it nice but once I got to the end of it I was struggling. Still managed to finish it though.
Hot sauces are very variable in spice levels imo. Most of them I don’t find spicy at all, but some of them are so spicy that even adding a little bit to my food has ruined it before.
Is there something genetically different with people who enjoy this?
Probably. My parents are from a place known for their love of spice, though I mostly grew up in places that were very conservative on spice.
I’m not sure about buffalo wings because I haven’t had any recently but I do know that I do have a noticeable spice tolerance. For some hot sauces, like sriracha, I do need a good amount per bite before I can actually notice it.
Buldak is really great, if you supplement it with 2 slices of toast cheese and a boiled egg
Let it boil in the water until it gets about half done, spill 1/4 of the water into a frying pan with it, put the egg, half the spice and the spice packet in, and boil the water while stirring until its evaporated
The spice will not be a disgusting sauce since it will mix itself with the cheese, the spice will be better, and the boiled egg (+ maybe some chives) will give it a better texture
