I keep hearing about "chemical flavor" in extracts, and being a chemist and doing TONS of extractions (none for capsicum though, I don't deal in natural products), I was wondering what chemical you use to extract? I'm just wondering if there might be something better, and I have a few ideas. I just hope you aren't using dichloromethane. They used to use that to make decaffinated coffee when they first started marketing it...and they stopped for obvious reasons.
hot-sauce Question for Extract makers
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Nope, the usual suspects are ketones. You are now saying to yourself, WHAT???
Yup, most of the mass-produced canned extracts are extracted through the use of ketones. Ketones will put capsaicin into solution while leaving the sugar behind (the infamouos glass ceiling). The ketones are then taken out of the solution by a wonderful mega-buck non-bipedal machine, and then sold off in non-descript bottles, mostly in the form of repellant (gee, I wonder why). As you will read in other threads, they taste NASTY to most, for obvious reasons. Personally, I never liked the taste of Red Devil Liquid 99 (it's furniture stripper, but I guess xylene and toluol could substitute if acetone or benzene aren't available) in substances I intend to ingest, but that's just my opinion. We do our own extracts, and as a few on this board who have had it will tell you, there ain't no ketones!
Yup, most of the mass-produced canned extracts are extracted through the use of ketones. Ketones will put capsaicin into solution while leaving the sugar behind (the infamouos glass ceiling). The ketones are then taken out of the solution by a wonderful mega-buck non-bipedal machine, and then sold off in non-descript bottles, mostly in the form of repellant (gee, I wonder why). As you will read in other threads, they taste NASTY to most, for obvious reasons. Personally, I never liked the taste of Red Devil Liquid 99 (it's furniture stripper, but I guess xylene and toluol could substitute if acetone or benzene aren't available) in substances I intend to ingest, but that's just my opinion. We do our own extracts, and as a few on this board who have had it will tell you, there ain't no ketones!