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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'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've had the 3x spicy ones, they are very hot that isn't to much of an issue for me. The problem is that they don't actually taste any good.
I like spicy foods, but I also like flavour, I find a lot of the super spicy foods only really taste of spice.
I wouldn't get them again, they are too hot to be enjoyable and don't have great flavour to compensate for what I would class as a "challenging" level of spice. If they tasted awesome, it would be a different story.
I don't tend to sweat from spicy foods. So maybe there is some genetic component. Two of my three boys like spicy foods.
There's definitely something to be said for building up a tolerance to heat. I put peppers, especially ground hot peppers (various varieties) on a lot of my food. I'd say at least 5/7 dinners a week in an average week I try to find a way to work in some sort of spicy.
The point though isn't just heat, it's about flavor too in combination with the heat sensation. I've eaten and enjoyed buldak noodles but they are kind of mild to my tastes. I tend to make mine by adding oil and stir frying them longer at the end as well as adding additional ground hot peppers while preparing to increase the heat level to something fun for me. I've tried 2x and it's fine but it has more heat than flavor, the other Samyang offer a better flavor and heat profile and I can doctor them up on my own. I do like the Samyang black sauce to add to protein like tofu before baking/frying it and it can produce an interesting flavor especially when used with a few other things like soy sauce and some spices.
So I think it's just exposure and building tolerance. If you keep eating foods at that spiciness level you'll get used to them. You may still experience a little sweat but it'll be more tolerable and less intense as you acclimate.
Correct take.
Although, IMHO, buldak noodles are more "spicy for spicy's sake" than actually good. The noodles themselves are a good texture but the flavor packets feel like a gimmick.
My strategy is I take 1 package of the black Buldak ramen and cook it with 2 packages of Maruchan ramen and then I use 1 of the Maruchan packets with the Buldak seasoning packets to season the whole thing, and if I want it to be a bit more substantial I'll drop an egg in there while it's boiling until the yolk is the right amount of runny
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
Next time it'll only be 8hrs, just gotta stick with it.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
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.
Yeah you definitely can build a tolerance. I used to think Buldak was pretty spicy (as in so spicy itβs affecting my enjoyment) the first time having it. Now itβs whatever.
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.
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.
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
theyβre gagging and crying from the heat.
Take their wallets while they can't resist and mock those weaklings right back.
This is the way
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 2Γ 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 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
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.
Maybe Iβm broken inside but I like the feeling of eating spicy food. The spicier, the better.
Cβmon, 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.
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 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 jalapeΓ±o 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