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?
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.
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 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
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.
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
Maybe I’m broken inside but I like the feeling of eating spicy food. The spicier, the better.
C’mon, Ghost Pepper, hurt me.
I like the feel going in. Do not like the feel going out.
That’s when I know I ate something truly spicy: It burns like mad on the way out, too. Buldak doesn’t even register as ‘a’ spicy meal there, luckily.
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
I do enjoy spicy food in general, but the x2 were hard. Used half the sauce the first time and finished the portion in pain, just because i am stubborn. On the third try i used around an eight of a package to keep it edible.
On the positive side: i put the rest of the sauce in a jar, so now i can add it to all kind of meals in smaller quantities. I really like that
The trick is to not use the whole spice packet. I typically only put half into my noodles.
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 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’m just not very sensitive to spice, and I like the spicy feeling. Buffalo sauce truly is not spicy for me. It’s just sour. I think something is wrong with my mouth, so I would say it’s something genetically different. I have never found something too spicy for me. I grow hot peppers and ferment my own hot sauce, and my favourite is the Trinidad scorpion pepper.
And you’ve always been like that? Without having to build a tolerance?
Yes, as far as I remember. My family doesn’t eat spicy food so I didn’t have it growing up.
I was trying to think of some kind of real world advantage it would give you. Not that I think you should try it but I wonder if it means you would be less affected by pepper spray.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
