For all you heat seekers, these noodles are ranked by their Scoville Heat Units (SHU), from hottest to “mildest.”
When it comes to the spiciest instant ramen on the planet, each packs a punch in terms of heat and flavor.
The World’s Hottest Ramen Noodles are brought to you by our chili-mad-mates from New Zealand; Culley’s!
A fusion of Culley’s signature flavor-full taste with one of the hottest peppers in the world, Carolina Reaper as a ramen soup – just breathe it in and it’ll make your eyes water!
The furious Carolina Reaper is the world’s hottest pepper. If swallowed, the Carolina Reaper can inflict extreme agony in the mouth, throat, and eyes.
They’re made with scary bhut jolokia (ghost peppers) — which are 400 times spicier than Tabasco, clocking in at more than 1 million Scoville heat units (SHUs). In other words, this is some seriously spicy stuff!
Samyang has created their hottest spiciest ramen ever with this limited edition 3x spicy Chicken Ramen Noodles.
The dark red liquid stir-fry sauce contains all the “nuclear” flavors that spice up the noodles.
The renewed Haek Buldak Spicy Chicken Ramen, also known as 2X Fire Noodle clocks in at 10,000 Scoville heat units — making it one of the spiciest ramen in the world.
This is the perfect red peppery bowl of instant noodles packing that traditional South Korean spice.
Addictive Teumsae Ramyeon instant noodles come in at 9,413 SHU. These noodles will make you sweat.
Cheese Hot Chicken Flavor
The Cheese Hot Chicken flavored Buldak Ramen is as cheesy as ramen can get. It is perfect for cheese lovers, it contains cheddar cheese with a bit of nori.
Cheese Hot Chicken Flavor of Buldak Ramen is less spicy than the others. It has a Buldak Ramen Scoville rating of 2,323 SHU.
The only green hot sauce in our mix, El Yucateco is a deliciously bright, citrusy, and smoky hot sauce to add to your pantry. Our group reaction after trying it was a very Paris Hilton: “That’s hot!” It’s hotter than my other favorite Mexican hot sauce, Valentina, and to me is the perfect example of a complex and satisfying hot sauce that keeps you going in for more. I had to top up my teaspoon when we were tasting.
Spiced and spicy, Tunisian harissa is chili paste that can be cooked with or loosened into a sauce. It tends to be made with dried chilis and is often flavored with lemon juice and spices like cumin, coriander, caraway, and deliciously, sometimes even rose. The flavor profiles will differ according to the brand, for the most heat and flavor it’s most reliable to look for the Tunisian brands, which have the added bonus packaging so beautiful you’ll never want to store them away.
The same goes, in my opinion, for all hot sauces: just think of all the flavors that make world-favorite Sriracha what it is. Heat and heat alone becomes boring—there’s got to be something that keeps you going back for more. There are so many hot sauces on the market (even, as we’ve recently discovered, a hot sauce for coffee), but we’ve narrowed down our list to 11 of our favorites. Some, like harissa or gochujang are more like pastes but all can be used as excellent dippers and others, like your classic Tabasco, are drippy sauces made for your table.
Naturally I invited Artur to the challenge, but unfortunately, I accidentally ordered the hottest Samyang sauce on the market—and it was an experience. The first flavor that comes through is a savory, caramel-y, almost peanutty note, which quickly EXPLODES into a heat that takes you on a red hot trip for 10 minutes. We were pacing around the room, huffing and puffing, and I grabbed the closest cold drink on hand (we were in a shoot kitchen, so this happened, somehow to be pure grenadine syrup—not sure I’d recommend). The spice does calm down after about 10 minutes, but those 10 minutes sure are intense. Flavor: Savory and nutty, but pretty rapidly dulled by heatHeat: EXPLOSIVELY HOT
When I was crowd-sourcing hot sauce recommendations, Video Editor Artur supplied this one: “I’m not really sure if it’s a traditional hot sauce, but it sure is hot.” If you’re familiar with instant ramen and/or the Scoville scale—you’ve likely heard of Samyang hot chicken ramen 2x spicy, start of the Youtube ‘Fire Noodle Challenge’. According to Wikipedia, it has a Scoville of 8,80: For comparison, that’s like eating a single jalapeño. Essentially, it’s hot.
2x Spicy Hot Chicken Flavor
The 2x Spicy Hot Chicken flavored Buldak Ramen is as spicy as a plateful of jalapenos. It is one of the spiciest ramen flavors ever to exist and was the inspiration behind the Fire Noodle Challenge. This flavor of Buldak ramen would definitely make you sweat.
The 2x Spicy Hot Chicken is also the spiciest Buldak Ramen flavor. It has a Buldak Ramen Scoville rating of 10,000 SHU.
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