Three fiery flavours of the Samyang instant ramen line are being withdrawn: Buldak 3x Spicy & Hot Chicken, 2x Spicy & Hot Chicken and Hot Chicken Stew.
Denmark’s food agency issued the recall and warning on Tuesday, urging consumers to abandon the product.
It’s unknown if any specific incidents have prompted the Danish authorities into taking action.
This is like the best advertisement ever for the brand. Like they get the infamy without killing someone, basically became certified cool like the warning sticker on music albums in the 90s
I had the (I think) black packet/hottest once and it was so boring. There’s no flavour behind the heat, very disappointing.
I’ve basically decided to give up on Buldak.
I like spicy food, generally, but I ate the black one too and it was all spice and no taste.
I then tried one that was supposed to be cheese flavour (and not even the spicy cheese flavour, just regular normal cheese) and that was also somehow just spicy in a really boring way.
The pink carbo one isn’t bad. Definitely has other flavours in there, not just spicy. That said, I also don’t add the entire sachet of hot sauce…
I thought the same about this brand. The grocery store I go to sells these and I was disappointed after buying a pack. Shin Ramyun is so much better.
What are you talking about, that stuff is delicious
I know right, they’re my favorite specifically because theyre not just spicy but delicious too! Especially the cheese one.
I’ve had a couple of the flavours and the cheese one (with an extra slice of American cheese stirred in, if you’re feeling cheesy), the classic one, and the habanero lime ones were my favourite so far.
Habanero lime is sooo good. The jjajang and the cream carbonara are also great.
I think a lot of people cook them wrong though and maybe that’s why they don’t think they taste good. It’s really important that you add the 1/4 cup water (remain 8 tbsp!) with the sauce packet at the end and then stir fry it until it’s thick again, this usually takes me about 2 or 3 extra minutes on med-high.
Sometimes I add cream cheese and a little mozzarella to the black packet, and/or a single egg near the end.
Personally I just cook the noodles, drain, and then add the sauce without cooking it further.
Maybe I should try it the way you said though!
They could also just be making it as a regular instant ramen soup, in which case I can imagine feeling like there’s no flavour other than the heat.
Oh, no! Send it to me, I’ll take care of it.
I say this having just finished a big bowl of noodles, pork, onions, carrots, and cabbage doused in sriracha
You might have a high spice tolerance, I don’t know, but if you are exemplifying Sriracha as an example, I would suggest caution. Korean spicy food doesn’t play when it says things like “2x heat!” on the package.
Sriracha is about 2200SHU, the recalled noodles are 10,000SHU.
If you enjoy Korean red paste, it’s a good heat, but some people don’t quite know what they are getting into. If you’re used to eating 100k or 200k SHU stuff, go for it, but I know there’s a lot of tolerance variation from 2k to 200k people.
SHU is weird anyway. I’ve tried toothpick drops of the Source (7.1m) and it wasn’t all that bad, but a good chili oil will fuck me. There are a lot of variables. How it coats your mouth and what you’re having with it matters a lot, too.
It’s true that it’s an imperfect measurement, but it is the closest to a useful illustration that I have.
I’m trying to avoid the whole one upping thing while just warning that if Sriracha is given an example of peak spicy, I’d caution to start slow on Korean hot foods that are labeled with extreme packaging. Not saying don’t try, but small bites to check instead of diving in.
That’s very fair. Small bites, and don’t hesitate to dress it up to see if it can be made to suit. There are prolly thousands of videos on adding stuff to noodles, and some will lessen the heat.
Sriracha is pretty tame IMO, but I appreciate the well informed warning (other people reading this might too).
I mainline sriracha, I can’t take buldak noodles.
Sriracha is only slightly more spicy than ketchup
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Dansk Fødevarestyrelse: bans product containing poisonous amounts of popular chemical
Rest of the world: laughs at Denmark for “not being able to handle spicy food” 🙄
Painful exposures to capsaicin-containing peppers are among the most common plant-related exposures presented to poison centers.[31] They cause burning or stinging pain to the skin and, if ingested in large amounts by adults or small amounts by children, can produce nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and burning diarrhea. Eye exposure produces intense tearing, pain, conjunctivitis, and blepharospasm.[32]
Ingestion of high quantities of capsaicin can be deadly,[37] particularly in people with heart problems.[38] Even healthy young people can suffer adverse health effects like myocardial infarction after ingestion of capsaicin capsules.[39]
Negative reactions to capsaicin generally only happen when people who are unused to spicy foods ingest something too spicy for their level of tolerance. So yes, this is Denmark “not being able to handle spicy food”. The problem here is probably people with zero tolerance trying to eat it as a ‘challenge’.
Negative reactions to capsaicin generally only happen when people who are unused to spicy foods ingest something too spicy for their level of tolerance
That’s a common misconception. One that leads to many poisonings of “seasoned veterans” every year.
So yes, this is Denmark "not being able to handle spicy food
No, this is the Danish food agency doing their job of minimizing preventable food poisoning.
The problem here is probably people with zero tolerance trying to eat it as a ‘challenge’.
Again with the common misconception. No matter how many times you’ve heard people who love spicy food say that doesn’t make it true and neither does YOUR repeatedly claiming it.
Source for YOUR claims?
Already posted several in the comment you originally replied to…
None of that contradicts my point about tolerance…
So any folks out there in Denmark, feel free to send those to me…for…“disposal”
From the Buldak flavors I’ve tried, I’d be much more worried about the sodium levels than capsaicin. Instant noodles commonly contain more than half of your daily recommended maximum salt intake in a single packet.
I’ve really enjoyed the flavors I’ve tried so far, but do consider them an unhealthy snack and eat no more than one per week.
My wife has a trunk full of these and has one for lunch every weekday.
I’ve had that one, in an import variety pack I bought in the states.
It did not fuck around. Was good. And my tastebuds grew back eventually.
I think these noodles may have given me diarrhea, but it’s also possible I just happened to have it for another reason. Either way I’m not in Denmark, so that wasn’t the incident.
I mean the logo has a crying chicken on it so yea
What were they expecting ?
Samyang noodles are okay, I just add a bit more water than specified on the packaging.
Beware that you need to boil the noodles for 3 minutes, they are not instant.
Lol that’s funny. I mean my stomach can’t handle capsaicin but that’s by body’s fault, not the food’s.
Nanny state.
