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I've made the decision to do some extreme sports of the culinary variety!
Regular Buldak is about 4400 scoville units, while 2x is 8800 scoville units.
That means that this guy is at an adorable 12000 scoville units, take or leave a few you lose during cooking.
For reference, Jalapeno's are at 2500 to 8000 scovilles.
Thomas Editon: I've been informed that I mathed wrong, and the spice Level is closer to 13200.
First impressions? It smells really good, it's Buldak spicy chicken noodles!
Added greens for something fresh (I lied, they were frozen).
Added a pork cheese schnitzel for some meat and crunch.
And... It's yummy and SpIcY in that wonderfully painful way!
My lips are wiggling, and my tongue demands aloe vera!
But, what does my colon think? Let's ask him:
What's that? You liked it? That's great news! For I finished the whole thing!
I spiritually resonate with this image. Smiling, but singed!
What do you think, my colon? Shall I keep buying these?
See? He's extatic to learn more German!
But for real, Buldak 3x spicy was good! Super recommend for any other spice heads!
KingORedLions
I'm not sure why these are advertised as 4k - 16k scovilles respectively depending on which you get - they are clearly a lot hotter - feels like they left off a whole zero.
Seanspeed
They have a 3x now? Jesus. The 2x was too spicy for me to eat. I'd take like 2-3 bites and then have to wait 5 minutes for my mouth to cool off. Even the 1x is just a little too uncomfortable for me to really enjoy. It just doesn't taste good enough to be worth it, plus I dont like how oily the noodles are.
thisisausernamelikeanyothersbutthisonesmellsweird
SpiteLip
i always add a kraft single, the traditional Korean way!
lewaq
#6 you should by at least 9!
LonesomeCoder
FoxFyre
My teenager wanted to try one of these but doesn’t fully understand cooking 101. He super heated the pan and vaporized the spice packet. He managed to inhale the Vapor and basically pepper spray the entire house. This is what we now deemed the ‘spice lung’ event. I do not recommend- especially if you live in a small space.
MBdub210
@leifericson793 is giggling right now
leifericson793
Hahahahaha! Sadly I cannot find that x3 variety!
arthurvanhoudt
3x4.400 = 13.200 not 12.000 or is it “rounded” down?
fiddlewheelx
Yes I didn't math correctly, sue me.
Corrodias
you will hear from my lawyer
arthurvanhoudt
🤣🤣🤣
DaftTechno
derschweiz
Ok that shit doesn’t fuck around. Not a box at the local Asian market and I can only use about a quarter of the sauce packets.
zeacorzeppelin10
poochyena
Meanwhile, even "mild" noodles are too hot for me.
Varenvel
spicy but i had spicier , and im supposed to have sensitive throat to spices after my mother.
DefinitelyaHumanNotanAlien
I feel sorry for your butt.
arthurvanhoudt
I have the Tabasco Scorpion as “backup” which is supposed to be between 23.000 - 33.000 SHU’s. And we can by these 2x & 3x hot in “family” packs of 6 here in our toko.
Jyokage
It really is nice if prepared properly. I tried to turn the stirfry version into soup once...it was bad. Read instructions folks.
wardeward
As a fellow spicy lover. I think you should up your game a little and try Daebak Ghost Pepper Black noodles. They have a pretty good kick to them.
FrozenMonkey
I've had Buldak 3x. I love the taste and flavor but it's too spicy. It's literally painful to eat and it burns both going in and going out.
somnif
To me, even the 1x has no flavor beyond bitter acrid capsaicin. And Buldak has completely taken over the ramen selection in my local shops.
stygiansojourn
I thought the 1x was exactly that. Delicious, but too painful. I like my chili peppers, but that's just too intense for me. I don't hate myself *that* much.
N0tDave
I really like the flavor, but it's one of those things that you have to ask "How much hot is too much" when you start actually considering putting some ice up your chocolate starfish the next day.
maybeamonster
got a chicken place downtown that does nashville style hot chicken with ghost pepper, reaper and something else mixed. their tenders are something like a million scoville. damned good flavor too
anjeleyezjr
TomBrokaw
I refuse to believe anyone can taste a damn thing over the pain of that much heat
nero4ty2
Flavor and heat are very different things, habanero, reapers and ghost are all hot but have unique tastes
TomBrokaw
I'm sure they do, but as far as I'm concerned, it's like noticing that the chainsaw has fantastic vibration damping as it cuts your arm off
nero4ty2
Sorry for your lack of taste I guess
TomBrokaw
You don't think it's like holding a candle up to the sun? I just do not get how people can eat habaneros, nevermind reapers and ghost peppers and federal-pound-you-in-the-ass peppers
DorkJedi
Generally you taste the flavor first, and the rainbow second.
Ttoften
I've had those and they are quite horrible!
hesbeginningtobelieve
13k scoville units is considered mild.. kindergarten stuff.. am I missing something?
GerbilHereReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
Yeah, the fact they're measuring it on a tiny diluted sample and put it on the packet. That's some shady shit man. No pun intended.
somnif
A few independent folks have tested the spice packet in these things to over 200k SHU. No one is entirely sure how Buldak's math works.
hesbeginningtobelieve
Lmaoo got it. So, pretty hot.
0570
I don't like spicy food, but I've tried this very same one! I got half way before giving up.
UncleShrimp
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Fun fact. If you do not chug water or liquid and just bear with it the liquid lava hurty squirties do not occur. Capsaicin is broken down by digestion but when you flush it through your intestines are affected and send it all down at speed leading to the burning butthole bullets.
Beelsebooob
Tony Lazuto says hello.
TonyLatuzoSaysHello
I mean, sure?
chunguswangus
He's done this 47 times
thelonepig
I've never had spicy poop. I wonder what that says about my colon.
stygiansojourn
Your colon loves you so much it's preventing you from feeling the burn.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
You probably do not chug water when eating it.
thelonepig
I definitely do not. Is that a thing? I drink diet soda with it.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
It is. Capsaicin breaks down during normal digestion. But if you drink a bunch of liquid it flushes it down into the intestines before it can where they react to it by cramping and forces it all out before it can be broken down and FIRE IN THE HOLE! So yeah just not drinking too much while eating spicy foods means no afterburn.
horseman05
The Burn goes all the way thru.
fiddlewheelx
That's how you know it's the good stuff!
Eypisod
Chromentor
I am ok with standard Tabasco heat. Anything hotter than that is just not enjoyable for me.
RandAIFlagg
How was the flavor? I love spicy, I love ramen. My cabinet is stocked full of Nongshim - have you had that? Can you compare? I'll look for this one.
Seanspeed
Even the 1x Buldak is probably about 2x as hot as Nongshim Shin Ramen. It's very hot. The 2x is basically inedible in my opinion. 3x must be absurd. As for taste, it's ok, but it wasn't anything I'd go out my way for. Very oily, too. Much better, more sane options there.
iexiak
Buldak 1x sauce is like Aadvark sauce. Imagine eating a bowl of Aadvark soup. 2x and 3x are a bigger jump than you're imagining. I love hot sauces, Buldak is probably one of my favorites at the moment, and I love a variety of their ramen...but I'm not going 2x or 3x spicy ramen anymore.
somnif
To me, these things taste nasty, just straight acrid pepper oleoresin. Bitter, almost metallic, heat. But some folks love it. (shrug)
fiddlewheelx
Delicious, it tastes exactly like Buldak spicy chicken, just hotter.
Makerofroads
Why is Ramen soo spicy now. It's getting to where the only Ramen in stock these days are maruchan chicken, and 18 kinda of fire to blast your backdoor. What about the other savory flavors eh?
Seanspeed
It's not? Vast majority of ramen are the same basic flavors as usual, but Buldak stuff has gotten meme popular so you see it a lot, and there's quite a few different types. Regular spicy ramen(ala Shin Ramen) are still very popular. Honestly though, if your store has Maruchan ramen, you probably aren't at the right place to do some good ramen shopping.
Makerofroads
There is an Asian market nearby where I get my Ramen. They've got imported stuff the likes of which would make a weeb cream their jeans. Thai hot pot with the lotus in, chappagetti, neoguri, all sorts of Ramen ranging from the kind with just a flavor packet, to the kind with veggies, seasoned oil, and the naruto. But for every savory flavor there is at least 4-5 kinds of spicy. You can buy fresh fish heads and gong fu tea on one side, but 80% of the Ramen is spicy.
Seanspeed
I mean, spicy is normal and popular. But the vast majority of the spicy stuff isn't like 'painful spicy' like Buldak. And if you're being honest, you know you'll have tons of options for non-spicy stuff if that's what you really want.
anjeleyezjr
13000 scoville? That's....okay, I am a spice head, so my perception is VERY scewed, but that is mild AF.
viila
It's for the finished dish, not concentrated sauce that you use a single dab of that then gets diluted over the dish you're actually eating.
somnif
Their numbers are VERY off. In reality the spice packet is well over 200k SHU in this thing, but Buldak uses some weird math in their labels
Seanspeed
It's really not mild whatsoever. Even the 2x is insanely hot. And as a spice head, you should know how misleading scoville counts are as you dont know what's really being measured.
fiddlewheelx
That's the weird thing, I am also a spice head, I munch bird eye in thai food, and this guy is spicy.
anjeleyezjr
Interesting. I may have to give it a go. Love when I find something that surprises me with heat, as long as the flavor is there as well.
Meladyx
I don't understand the Buldak scoville scale. I've had hot sauces that are 250k on the scale that are more mild than the 2x noodles.
varesya
Different spices can hit differently, despite being at similar spots on the scoville scale. You can get used to certain types, like the peppers in Mexican food, but then you run into stuff from East Asia, or vice versa, and it buuuuuuuurns.
GerbilHereReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
Exactly! They're flat out lying about the SHU on the packet, the 3x is more like 260,000 - 300,000 if I'm being conservative and I'm familiar with spicy food.
FordF
I have tasted 700 000 SHU sauces that were more tasty and has less STING to it.
stygiansojourn
This is good to hear. I thought I was a wimp.
FordF
The Buldak 3x is just STINGING! Nothing of the taste of chili. Very dissapointed. The ordinary Buldak spicy is much more tasty.
stygiansojourn
I could barely handle the ordinary Buldak in terms of overall heat tolerance, but man is it tasty.
asm80dfa8sdfj
I agree with this 100%. The numbers are way too low. Also IMO the buldak stuff tastes like shit. I've heard people say they taste really good, they can taste the chicken, etc. I have a high spice tolerance, like ghost peppers and moruga scorpions and whatnot. I can taste it just fine, and it tastes like chemical BS to me.
Unagi604
My theory is that they mean the SHU of the prepared dish. Like 250k+ sauce probably, but 12k when diluted into the cooked noodles maybe.
Meladyx
That's a pretty good theory. Especially considering that I leave no water left and skip the stir-fry phase, so I'm basically raw-dogging the entire sauce packet over the fully drained noodles.
asm80dfa8sdfj
You're not supposed to have a broth with it, you should put the sauce directly on the drained noodles, as per their instructions.
GerbilHereReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
Oh I'm sure they measured it on a tiny diluted sample and it came to 13k. That's like saying ghost pepper is only 100,000 if you take a tiny bite. I guess they say that bc a whole 3x packet can actually hurt your guts, like physically. So they don't give the measurement for the whole thing at all. They're gotta be saying that to avoid liability, I'm pretty sure of that.
mercyPandaRunner
That's not what they said. They suggested Buldaks Scoville value was referencing the fully prepared dish.
250k Scoville Sauces Scoville value is referencing the pure sauce. You don't eat the pure sauce. You put some of it in/on your food. If you do that, it won't be 250k Scoville that you taste in the fully prepared dish. You know, like when you mix a few drops red coloured water with uncoloured water and the resulting liquid is less red than the original red coloured water? Just with hot.
mercyPandaRunner
That ghost pepper example is wrong and right at the same time. Of course a nibble ghost pepper won't be as bad as a whole one. But thats not what dilution means and that's not what this is about. This is about the Scoville value of a ghost pepper vs. the Scoville value of a dish with a bit of ghost pepper in it.
Example in practice: I won't drink Tabasco or Siracha. But i eat food with Tabasco or Siracha in it. Not rocket science.