r/InstantRamen • u/CrystalTwy • 2d ago

Korean Instant Noodles Buldak & Ghost Pepper Wings = Burning Tummy

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I don’t recommend pairing them 😳 I prepped my tummy with yakult and it still burns like crazy. I had to take tummy medicine, and even so the burning still continued for few hours~

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u/ChuffZNuff74 2d ago

I love hot and spicy food; but I’d say if you have to prep your stomach with yakult and then follow up with (pepto bismol) - that’s TOO damn hot.

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u/CrystalTwy 1d ago

Oooh! Good to know :) thankyou!

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u/ChuffZNuff74 1d ago

Tbh I’d be worried if my stomach actually felt like it was burning? Not mouth/ throat? Perhaps seek medical advice if it doesn’t go relatively soon 👍🏻

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u/NetworkingJesus 1d ago

That's totally normal with extreme levels of spicy to get extremely painful/uncomfortable stomach cramps that could be described as burning or stabbing. They can last all night if you overdo with eating fresh superhots, sauces with capsaicin extract or large amounts of otherwise highly-concentrated superhots, etc. No need to see a doc about it; it will pass on its own.

Stomach can develop or lose tolerance as well just like tongue/mouth. For some people this can happen even just from something like Buldak 2x if they don't regularly consume hot stuff. Others who have developed a higher tolerance will be good until they do something crazy like eat a bunch of chicken completely dusted in straight up reaper powder. And that can be the same person going up and down that scale depending on how regularly they're eating hot stuff.

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u/ChuffZNuff74 1d ago edited 1d ago

Fair enough; I have a reasonable chilli tolerance but don’t really mess about with the more extreme reaper, naga chillis etc - or there concentrated varieties. I don’t understand how people can enjoy it really, or whether it’s a macho thing?

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u/NetworkingJesus 1d ago

People who haven't built tolerance doing it are either doing it for the endorphin rush or a macho thing or to get views on the internet or something. For many people though it's just the natural progression as our tolerance increases and need more and more to feel the same rush. Like drugs.

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u/ChuffZNuff74 22h ago

Agree to an extent; I’ve enjoyed a chilli and/ or spice kick for decades. I probably can tolerate a bit more heat than I used to, but don’t feel the need to push boundaries - certainly not for macho points or insta views. There’s always someone who can go hotter than yourself - Thai people for one, seem to have it in their blood. That being said - the average food was bloody hot in Chennai..

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u/NetworkingJesus 22h ago

I'm using myself as a reference I guess because I used to cap out at habanero but have no problems topping a pizza with fresh reaper and scorpion slices now. A while ago a friend gave me this Ancho Masala Scorpion Reaper sauce because it was too hot for him. It was too hot for me as well and sat untouched in my fridge for a year or so. Then one day I just got a really strong craving for some extreme heat on my tacos and put that sauce on them. I was on fire but I just kept finding myself wanting it more and more. Before I knew it, it was just a normal level of heat for me.

Similar happened when I started growing habaneros one year and then was gifted a scorpion plant and a reaper plant which terrified me. I didn't think I wanted them but I had them so I gave it a shot. Turns out the sauces had brought my tolerance up enough to where I actually enjoyed those peppers and started putting them on everything.

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u/ChuffZNuff74 2h ago

I also probably stop at a habanero; but can understand the appeal, again - to an extent. When I’ve hit the chilli hard I do like the “recovery” phase (if you can call it that), my breathing feels extra clear and just generally refreshed. But who knows, if I get access to better growing facilities (many a greenhouse), I’d consider growing some regular but also some killer varieties. I assume they more easy enough to grow from seed? And you can use seeds from commercially obtained fresh chillis? (As opposed to buying a bag of seeds for growing)

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u/NetworkingJesus 1h ago

I didn't have much luck growing from seed but I've never grown anything from seed and made a lot of mistakes and am generally not a very experienced gardener. The already started plants did alright though, just gotta give them enough space.

To be clear, at no point did I ever try or even want to pop a whole reaper or scorpion pod into my mouth. I remove the seeds/placenta and then slice into strips and use it like that. My mouth could probably handle it but my stomach has a really hard time with seeds. In general it seems that stomach lags behind when building tolerance, which is frustrating. It definitely can catch up though and if you're not pushing the limits for your mouth too hard too fast then you probably won't get into the territory of crazy unbearable cramps like OP got, but maybe just a little extra gas/discomfort on occasion. I know where that limit is for myself and how to avoid it or how to deal with it if I just really really really wanna try something anyways (like the hottest Nashville hot chicken because I knew I probably wasn't going back to Nashville again).