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?
Yeah, pretty much. “Buffalo” sauce is literally average hot sauce (like Texas Pete, Tabasco, Louisiana, Crystal, etc, that style of cayanne-and-vinegar sauce) mixed with butter to cut the heat, it isn’t hot.
The cheese is less hot than the OG btw, and don’t even bother with the 2x hot in the red/black package. Don’t get me wrong, they are hot to me too, I just like it.
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 repear 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.
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 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.
Typical buffalo sauce or name brands like tabasco, cholula, etc. are not noticeably spicy to me.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I like Buldak, because it tastes awesome. It is the hottest thing I ever had though and I can struggle to eat a while packet sometimes if I’m not feeling it. It definitely doesn’t change y opinion of other hot foods which I still love. But Buldak is just weirdly super hot to me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One time I found a packet of Buldak half-X spice. They were the sweet spot for me, allowed me to use all of the delicious sauce, 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 delicious, unlike the awful cheese flavour and carbonara flavour buldaks.
