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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The trick is to not use the whole spice packet. I typically only put half into my noodles.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 you definitely can build a tolerance. I used to think Buldak was pretty spicy (as in so spicy it’s affecting my enjoyment) the first time having it. Now it’s whatever.

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.