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  It burns already! So I'll keep eating peppers and just treat my ankle with proper medicines ;) 

I have some bad news. I just ripped my achilles tendon... Maybe my lab partners will finish it in the mean time.   Keep you updated      

  It is impossible to get anhydrous ethanol by distillation since it forms an azeotrope with water. And why would we make an anhydrous solvent if we have some in the lab with similar polarity?   The goal is to purify the capsaicin in the best possible way, just proof of concept in the lab...

  Ethanol would indeed be a good choice to extract capsaicin. Only problem is that we need to register the use of absolute ethanol. Other dry and pure solvents are not registered.   The other steps are more or less the same as we are planning to do.    BTW we are not planning to use the...

Hexane will probably be not polar enough. From what I have read, dry ethanol, methanol, propranolol or aceton are the best.

If you want to blow the building, yes!  You want a liquid you can heat and evaporate.  This is how it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUDdkU2Of4s

Hi all,   Since my pepper plants produce well and I'm working in a (bio)chemical lab, a question arose. Together with my lab partners we were discussing how to extract capsaicin from peppers. Which led us to some shady websites about producing pepperspray. Our scientific curiosity was tickled...

    Because I want al the vinegar to stay in the liquid stage and not evaporate during the cooking.

Dear all,   This is my first year growing peppers and since my yield is quite high, I "need" to make a lot of sauces. I started with some recipes from this forum and now I will try to make own recipe.      Ingredients: 1 kg tomatoes 500 g onions 100 g garlic 200 g carrot 200 - 400 g peppers...

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Dear all,   After years of studying bio engineering I felt the urge to try growing something myself. Growing peppers was an oblivious choice. The end of my first growing season is near and I'm quite happy with my yield. Especially the jalapenos did will. My Chinese variaties are still full of...