not only the dangers of the cap IF you could extract it the procedure that is described is insane. for one you probably couldn't get PURE ethanol. Secondly pure ethanol has a flash point somewhere around 55F - meaning it would take a little spark to set it on fire, let alone mixing this crap in your blender. Then it describes heating this mixture?? Seriously?? You'll probably end up burning your house down before you could even get the pure cap. Easier to just buy "The Source" or other extract. Might cost you some, but cheaper than hurting yourself or burning down the house.
hot-sauce Is this possible/accurate to extract Capsaicin?
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Well said.
I don't know why you would need a blender with ethanol in it anyway. I think it warrants some precautions but not too much fear. "Grain" alcohol (available here in Connecticut) is almost entirely pure ethanol. 190 proof. I have stories about that for another time...
I figure you could use your blender to chop up some peppers pretty finely, then toss them in a jar of Grain for a day or so, then pour the contents through a coffee filter, then evaporate the liquid however you wanted.
One other thought- I drop a pepper into small jars of vodka or tequilla so that I can use it for drinks. It usually takes more than just one day to get the full heat, more like a week I think. Maybe it's just me.
I figure you could use your blender to chop up some peppers pretty finely, then toss them in a jar of Grain for a day or so, then pour the contents through a coffee filter, then evaporate the liquid however you wanted.
One other thought- I drop a pepper into small jars of vodka or tequilla so that I can use it for drinks. It usually takes more than just one day to get the full heat, more like a week I think. Maybe it's just me.
Omri said:
Nearly every substance known to man is poisonous. At my parents home we had this booklet "Handbook of poisoning" (Don't ask. My parents are both doctors... As a kid I loved to read this and take it to school to freak teachers out
). It thought me that nearly every substance is poisonous e.g. water is, if consumed in large amounts (I think it was something like the LD50 being 2O liters, but don't quote me on that, because I don't remember accurately). Is it true that birds are immune to capsicum poisoning? I know that they aren't put off by the heat in those bird pepper pods, but that's not to say you cannot poison them with enough pure capsicum extract.
my_key said:
Are you suggesting drowning birds in pepper extract?
Birds don't suffer the adverse effects of cap due to their complete lack of vanilloid receptors, which trigger the effects in humans. That's why birds don't eat chili, they find it bland.
Not really, but if that tickles your fancy, why not?
@OP: Here's some safety data for that recipe:
Capsaicin: http://msds.chem.ox.ac.uk/CA/capsaicin.html and general info (including some supplieers of the extract): http://www.chemspider.com/1265957
Ethanol: http://msds.chem.ox.ac.uk/ET/ethyl_alcohol.html (take a look at the flash point!!!) and general info http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.682.html
@OP: Here's some safety data for that recipe:
Capsaicin: http://msds.chem.ox.ac.uk/CA/capsaicin.html and general info (including some supplieers of the extract): http://www.chemspider.com/1265957
Ethanol: http://msds.chem.ox.ac.uk/ET/ethyl_alcohol.html (take a look at the flash point!!!) and general info http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.682.html
^^^
...and take LOTS of video and pictures....so your family and the insurance company know what happened.....
...and take LOTS of video and pictures....so your family and the insurance company know what happened.....
When we tried it, we did it in a chemistry lab, and we crushed haps that were frozen with liquid nitrogen. All we got was a small amount of a very hot, very flavorful oil.
As for poisoning someone with cap, the test for it would be quite easy, taste a drop of the victums blood. 17 grams of cap ingested would probably make his/her blood hotter than the hottest hot sauce out there.