I saw some buldak cheese version on sale so I got some and after 5 bites I’ve sweat the equivalent to half an olympic sized pool and starting to see aliens. Is there something genetically different with people who enjoy this?

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    21 hours ago

    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.

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      9 hours ago

      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.

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        7 hours ago

        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.

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          5 hours ago

          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.