My homemade pepper extract is made from chocolate habs and isopropyl alcohol, once dried it becomes a tar like consistency but it's getting old, does this stuff expire?
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Homemade pepper extract
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To clarify, I soak the habs in alcohol and then let the alcohol evaporate off to make the extract.
It's pretty good quality, I just haven't used it in a while and need to know if it's susceptible to bacteria or anything like that.Voodoo 6 said:
As said above, I would stop using isopropyl. And I hope you used %99.
People sometimes use %99 isopropyl to make cannabis chroncentrates but they off gas it in vacuum ovens that cost a couple grand to be sure there is no residual alcohol in it.
I'm sure you're ingesting very little but Ingesting Isopropyl is bad.
Drinking isopropyl alcohol has an immediate effect on the central nervous system. According to the Mayo Clinic, the CNS controls the involuntary actions of the body, including heartbeat, breathing and gag reflex. Isopropyl alcohol slows these functions and may shut them down altogether. The Occupational Safety and Health Agency's guidelines report that the CNS damage could also lead to coma.
People sometimes use %99 isopropyl to make cannabis chroncentrates but they off gas it in vacuum ovens that cost a couple grand to be sure there is no residual alcohol in it.
I'm sure you're ingesting very little but Ingesting Isopropyl is bad.
Drinking isopropyl alcohol has an immediate effect on the central nervous system. According to the Mayo Clinic, the CNS controls the involuntary actions of the body, including heartbeat, breathing and gag reflex. Isopropyl alcohol slows these functions and may shut them down altogether. The Occupational Safety and Health Agency's guidelines report that the CNS damage could also lead to coma.
charlie5heen said:
Isopropyl? 
should stick to alcohol you can ingest 
I've only used this stuff a time or two and small amounts at that, doesn't taste great either.
There was this thread
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/42769-extract-guide-wanted/
And this one I started (sorry about the pics being gone. Damned Photobucket!)
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/44227-50-ghosts-extract/
I used Everclear. Isoprpyl will kill you.
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/42769-extract-guide-wanted/
And this one I started (sorry about the pics being gone. Damned Photobucket!)
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/44227-50-ghosts-extract/
I used Everclear. Isoprpyl will kill you.
What can you do with this extract?
Does it have any culinary uses, or is it intended for something else?
On a related note, there was a recent thread on the scientific method for measuring SHU.
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/65518-science-paper-on-shu-testing/
They use something called a "Soxhlet extraction process". If you really wanted to get serious about using ethanol to extract the soluble organics from a pepper, this method makes sense to me.
Does it have any culinary uses, or is it intended for something else?
On a related note, there was a recent thread on the scientific method for measuring SHU.
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/65518-science-paper-on-shu-testing/
They use something called a "Soxhlet extraction process". If you really wanted to get serious about using ethanol to extract the soluble organics from a pepper, this method makes sense to me.
