Buldak spicy noodles are back on shelves in Denmark after the food authorities there canceled part of their recall decision concerning the famous Korean instant noodles product, originally issued due to their extreme spiciness and consequent health risks.
The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration announced, Monday (local time), that two of the three products that had been recalled were not harmful to health, based on updated risk assessments.
“Based on the new analysis results and the DTU Food Institute’s updated risk assessment, the administration concludes that two of the products, Samyang Buldak 2x Spicy Hot Chicken and Samyang Buldak Hot Chicken Stew, do not contain capsaicin levels as high as those reported by the distributors in the marketing,” the Danish administration said in a press release.
A coworker of mine introduced me to these about five or six years ago, when they could only be acquired in specialty Asian grocery stores. Now I can get them at Shaws and I fuckin love them. I’ve got three packs in my pantry at the moment. They’re best if you add microwaved chicken nuggets to them.
I actually tried a pack after seeing the previous article and recognizing them in the store. So news article marketing worked.
They’re really spicy though. To a level where it’s no longer enjoyable. On my second pack I only added 1/3 the included sauce and it was far better. I was used to Nissin packets of Soba-chili noodles and loved those. These Buldak packs are like 4-5 times as spicy.
They are hotter than a habenero burn. It is a slow burn though, so it’s mellow. If you aren’t used to that heat, it may be uncomfortable.
Animated thumbnail is awesome, never seen that before on Lemmy
Stoned me just stared at it, delayed…
Thanks for saying something or I’d still just think I was losing it 🤪
The fire coming out in that animation
Speaking of, Scovilles should generally be listed on packaging, also, when you buy raw chillis, some approximate number of what you can expect. At least for stuff over what 500 or so.
Their tamest ones have ~9000, that’s 3x red Sriracha meanwhile there’s other products on the shelves where “extra hot” means 2000 SCU no wonder people are calling poison hotlines.
Scoville units are also not a very good method of measuring spiciness (not that I have a better one). Ime I’ve eaten a variety of things at a variety of Scoville levels and I’ve found some of the lower ones way, way hotter than some of the higher ones. I’ve had many, many, many high/extra/killmepls strength hot sauces but still believe a homegrown ghost pepper to be the hottest thing I’ve ever eaten.
Idk if mine is better but my method is to pay attention to the peppers used (and avoid anything with that fake capsicum bullshit), and just trial and error. After a while you get pretty good at reading it and seeing “oh bhut jolokia, cool. Oooh trinidad brown scorpion, this one will be hot” etc. Tbf though I can eat sauce made with reapers so it’s less of a concern for me, I just can’t do the fake shit, it tastes like garbage and reapers are plenty hot I don’t need the lies.
Fat tends to reduce heat perception (capsaicin is lipophilic), and then there’s stuff like Szechuan pepper which manages to balance out heat by stimulating the movement sensors. A raw ghost pepper certainly doesn’t come with either. Also parts of that thing will be way hotter than others, for the whole thing to have an average of what 1M SCU the pith near the stalk needs to be absolute hellfire. Protip: Always try the very tip first, if it’s making you spit fire you don’t want to eat the rest :)
I honestly do not get the appeal of super spicy food like that.
It just tastes of hot. Hot is not a flavour.
Its only 13000 Scoville. Some people consider that medium. A Chipotle pepper is like 10,000, serano 20 thousand. I’ve been known to make chipotle sandwiches. It’s not really a toughness thing, it’s a skin thickness deal, plus acclimatization
Ya actually the buldak stuff is really flavorful, as well as being blast your ass tomorrow morning hot
Eating spicy food is fun though
Literally, as your body releases happy-hormones to deal with the pain
I got some buldak instant noodles to try. They are very very spicy. Ive definitely been served spicier foods at restaurants, but i dont think ive ever had a spicier instant ramen packet
Lee Nong Shim spicy are the best though. I don’t like their Black variety, but standard red spicy rock. I’ve a feeling they’re a connected brand or a relabel.
White nations need to quit confusing hotness with spiciness, except those that are actually complaining about spiciness. Those just need shut the fuck up. Source: I’m white.
I’m pretty sure average Danish horseradish would kill your usual WASP. And don’t get me started on that abomination Americans call mustard. Or alioli.
Go, go ahead, take a bulb of garlic, remove the sprouts, put them in pestle and mortar and mush them through with some good olive oil and salt until you have a nice emulsion. Taste the result and dare again to speak about “white people and spice”. Nope, it’s American puritans who invented corn flakes and Graham crackers so people would stop masturbating.
That was just John kellog and you also.need to shut up, that’s neither a rebuttal or relevant, just a npc response. I’m not American, dumbass. Btw, you don’t seem to know the difference between mortar and seive.
For not being an American you certainly put a lot of emphasis and generalisations on race. Also how do you mush things with a sieve of all things. Straining apple mush or such, sure, but that only works because the apples are cooked to smithereens.
Oh yes, I’m the one doing that
You’re an AI bot. Nevermind. Thought you were just an idiot but no.
So they were given the go, because their false advertising was caught?
Damn, Denmark really just called Buldak not as spicy as the label says.
“skill issue”
And apparently that’s better? You’d think they’d get in trouble for the false advertising now.
According to the report, the capsaicin levels were calculated based on the Scoville scale information disclosed on Danish retail websites selling the noodles, rather than the noodles themselves, as no specific measurements of capsaicin or total capsaicin content are provided by the manufacturer.
False advertising by the Danish themselves.
Okay, this is the funniest possible option. It was just a circle of Danish people panicking each other over the scary spicy noodles. No actual issue was ever present by any empirical definition.
Better to get in trouble for false advertising than actually dangerously high capsaicin content, I suppose.
Why is thumbnail moving?
LSD kicked in.
Someone got the 3x spicy buldak where I work and it’s hot as fuck. I didn’t know there was a 3x version, the 2x was already hotter than I like. Still had to try it.
the ban sounds like great advertising material.
“so spicy that Denmark had to make it illegal”
“are you stronger than the entire country of Denmark?”
“criminally spicy”
When Monty Python’s The Life of Brian came out, Norway banned it. Sweden then advertised it as “the film so funny that it was banned in Norway.”
That’s beautiful, thank you for sharing. I’ve been a fan for ages but didn’t know that.
No problem, it’s one of my favorite Monty Python factoids.
For what it’s worth, the Norwegians have since made up for this issue by making a really funny TV show. And doing it in both Norwegian and English versions, which must have been an extra challenge since so much of comedy is about language and it would have been the second language for most, if not all of the people involved.
I love that show. It’s fucking hilarious!
You’re not wrong. My interest in that brand jumped. But reviews basically said “it’s just spicy, not great flavor”
Flavor’s actually not bad at all. I’ve definitely had spicy foods that are nothing but capsaicin but this one actually has taste
I thought it was delicious. And that’s when trying to eat the black package, which was so spicy I very nearly threw up. But it still tasted delicious.
It would have been until they measured the capsaisin levels and declared it not as spicy as they were told.
Man I’m all for spicy but there’s a point for me when I can’t even enjoy the flavor that just kills it. As much as I want to love them, I haven’t found a version that isn’t ‘light you life on fire’ hot.
I like it sometimes. The temporary pain is stress relieving for me. It’s not about the flavor anymore then.
Having done extreme spice multiple times you start to taste the flavors again btw.
Also if it’s not your thing why would you want to love them? I don’t think anyone should need to justify not liking some food.
I have the regular Buldak and use 1/4 of the sauce pouch. You get the flavor without the pointlessly high spice level.
Try the ones not called 3x spice and replace the water with coconut milk.
Source: Trust me bro.
As a Thai food lover, I’m trying this fusion.
Good. I’m sick of this nanny state bullshit.
This and one chip was bullshit.
The “one chip challenge” did hospitalize several people and caused the death of a child with heart defect. They are potentially unsafe.
Not wanting those kind of crap products sold in the food section and advertised towards kids isn’t nanny stating.
There is no way a kid could make a qualified judgement themselves when it’s placed and marketed next to ordinary safe consumables.
I don’t mind these products being sold, but I do have higher expectations for safety of products sold in a food section.
